LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra
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Pierre Boulez
conductor
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Singers of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY
(Ward Swingle chorus master)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
“Jeux. Poème dansé”
Pierre Boulez (*1925)
“Notations” No. I–IV and VII for large orchestra
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
“Sinfonia” for eight voices and orchestra
Claude Debussy’s Jeux takes us to a tennis court, where two girls and a young man search for a missing tennis ball – in vain. So they decide to try other games: they chase each other, lose their way, quarrel, make up. The night is warm, kisses are exchanged ... Debussy has laid out his score like a tennis match – with melodic returns, thematic volleys, and crisp rhythmic rallies. Pierre Boulez combines this modern masterpiece with a work of his own: the orchestral version of five of his Notations, early piano pieces that he thought lost until they unexpectedly resurfaced in the late 1970s. And in Luciano Berio's Sinfonia he will present a stunning collage that unites Mahler and Stravinsky, Beethoven and Debussy, Ravel and political catchphrases of the Sixties.
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne – Partner of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY