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    Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Patricia Kopatchinskaja

    Date and Venue
    Sun 17.11. | 18.30 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
    Program
    Ustvolskaya | Korsun | Hersch | Kopatchinskaja | Ubaldini | Kendall | Odeh-Tamimi
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    Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve
    Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Patricia Kopatchinskaja
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    Program

    18.30
    "Dona nobis pacem"
    18.30
    Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006)
    Composition No. 1 Dona nobis pacem for piccolo flute, tuba, and piano
    Anna Korsun (*1986)
    new work for ensemble
    Michael Hersch (*1971)
    a tearing loose from matter for 2 violins
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja (*1977)
    FlügelnWund for violin, four speaking voices, and tape
    Blaise Ubaldini (*1979)
    Rusty Song for trumpet, violin, viola, and double bass
    Hannah Kendall (*1984)
    Tuxedo: Dust Bowl #3 for harmonicas and voices
    Samir Odeh-Tamimi (*1970)
    Li-Sabbrá for soprano saxophone and percussion
    Ukrainian choral music by Yevhen Stankovych, Mykola Leontovych, and others

    This concert lasts 75 min and has no intermission.

    Description

    The tuba’s low notes here, the shrill whistles of piccolo there, while the piano is tormented with fist and forearm: Galina Ustvolskaya’s Dona nobis pacem is a pain-distorted cry for peace that, by the end, becomes a kind of internalized prayer. Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s new staged concert, which she is developing together with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders, opens with sonic extremities. This work addresses the experience of war and violence, the idea that “the concert hall is a bunker in which people seek shelter together, while outside the world is coming to an end. I wanted to know what music can be played and heard under such circumstances. And whether music has any meaning at all when you’re fighting for your life.” The entire concert hall will be transformed into a playing space for the musicians.


    Event Venue

    KKL concert hall

    KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

    Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern
    Europaplatz 1
    CH-6005 Luzern

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