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Music

4 + 1 Amadinda Percussion Group [H]
Ensemble Linea [F] E.05
Muziektheater Transparant [B] RUHE
Ciaccona per 10

4 + 1
Amadinda Percussion Group [H]

October 11 | 19.30
Thalia Theatre – Main Stage

Balázs Horváth > PIN Code Variations [world première]
Márton Kerékfy > Schlagspiele
Gerogi Sztojanov > Flute concerto
Balázs Juhász > Signal
Steve Reich > Dance Pattern [Hungarian première]

With > Noémi Győri [flute] | Boglárka Fábry | György Oravecz [piano] | Amadinda Percussion Group

When in 1984 four students from the Academy of Music formed the Amadinda they could hardly have imagined that three of the most influential composers of the late 20th century would each write a work for them. Of course, besides John Cage, György Ligeti and Steve Reich, over the past decades many composers have written music for the four percussionists or with them in mind, and as the programme for their anniversary concert at the Autumn Festival shows, the works are still coming. The four young composers whose works will be performed, grew up with the experience of Amadinda concerts, and this is clearly reflected in their musical thinking and their confident writing for these special instruments. Amadinda have remained true to their basic philosophy: they have not put together a retrospective programme for this anniversary occasion, but have selected from compositions by the youngest generation, the “music of the future”.

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Ensemble Linea [F]
E.05

October 14 | 20.00
TRAFÓ – House of Contemporary Arts

Péter Eötvös > "Now, Miss!" [1972]
Péter Eötvös > Cadences [2008]
Péter Eötvös > Octet Plus [2008]

Péter Eötvös > Natasha [2006]
Péter Eötvös > Sonata per sei [2006]

Conductor > Jean-Philippe Wurtz

With >
Allison Bell [voice] | Ensemble Linea

Péter Eötvös is not the first composer in the history of music to have an intense interest in the connection between word and music. But few have been able to pose their questions so radically and in such a complex way in music and through music. As one of the most successful and acclaimed opera composers of the turn of the millennium, it is not surprising that even Péter Eötvös’s compositions that could traditionally be regarded as concert music are very theatrical, because for him music is also word and word is also music. “As I see it,” wrote Eötvös, “everything audible belongs to the world of music. Speech, the sound of instruments, all the noises that surround us. It is the task of the composer to give form and structure to all this, to convey »meaning« to the listener.” One of today’s most versatile contemporary music groups, Ensemble Linea, led by Jean-Philippe Wurtz, a student of Eötvös, is to perform a selection of chamber works by Péter Eötvös.

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Muziektheater Transparant [B]
RUHE

October 16 | 19.00
Millenáris Teátrum

The Flemish Muziektheater Transparant has been experimenting since 1994 with various forms of music theatre, seeking possible points of connection between music and drama. Their 2007 production is based on real events and interviews conducted with average people who voluntarily became Nazis in Holland in the 1940s. We hear the parallel monologues of a man and a woman, their stories punctuated with Schubert songs performed by the Collegium Vocale Gent. At the end of the piece we hear not Schubert, but a work by Annelies Van Parys, a contemporary Flemish composer: the dissonant chords place the continuously repeated word “Ruhe” [rest] in the same strange light as that cast by the Schubert songs on the happenings in Holland in the 1940s. The performance directed by Josse De Pauw does not pass judgement but simply points out the incomprehensible fact that most of the Nazi horrors of the Second World War were not the works of the devil but of ordinary people.

The performance has been created with the support of the Flemish Government as a joint production of Muziektheater Transparant, the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts and the Zeeland Nazomerfestival.

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Muziektheater Transparant [B]
RUHE

October 16 | 21.00
Millenáris Teátrum

The Flemish Muziektheater Transparant has been experimenting since 1994 with various forms of music theatre, seeking possible points of connection between music and drama. Their 2007 production is based on real events and interviews conducted with average people who voluntarily became Nazis in Holland in the 1940s. We hear the parallel monologues of a man and a woman, their stories punctuated with Schubert songs performed by the Collegium Vocale Gent. At the end of the piece we hear not Schubert, but a work by Annelies Van Parys, a contemporary Flemish composer: the dissonant chords place the continuously repeated word “Ruhe” [rest] in the same strange light as that cast by the Schubert songs on the happenings in Holland in the 1940s. The performance directed by Josse De Pauw does not pass judgement but simply points out the incomprehensible fact that most of the Nazi horrors of the Second World War were not the works of the devil but of ordinary people.

The performance has been created with the support of the Flemish Government as a joint production of Muziektheater Transparant, the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts and the Zeeland Nazomerfestival.

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Ciaccona per 10

October 18 | 19.30
Millenáris Teátrum

J. S. Bach > Cello suite in E flat major, BWV 1010 [1720 k.]
Dallapiccola > Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio [1945]
Ligeti > Solo sonata [1948–1953]

Eötvös > Psy [1996]
Perényi Miklós > Ciaccona per dieci [1990–1992]
Ligeti > Cello concerto [1966]

Conductor > Zoltán Rácz

With > Miklós Perényi [cello] | Gergely Ittzés [flute] | Zoltán Rácz [marimba] | UMZE Chamber Ensemble

The concert by Miklós Perényi and the UMZE Chamber Ensemble gives a sample of 20th century cello music. The first part is devoted to solo compositions: the Bach suites that can be regarded as the Old Testament of cello playing serve as a prelude, followed by two emblematic pieces from the years after the Second World War. The Ciaccona was the first piece Dallapiccola wrote using Schoenberg’s twelve note technique, while in contrast Ligeti’s early solo sonata is strongly rooted in the Bartokian tradition. Chamber pieces can be heard in the second half of the programme: Psy, Péter Eötvös’s highly sensitive trio for flute, marimba and cello, and a piece by Perényi himself who is also active as a composer. The final item is Ligeti’s cello concerto, last played by Perényi with the UMZE Ensemble in New York’s Carnegie Hall this January, and if a composition has an ideal performer, Miklós Perényi is certainly that performer for the Ligeti concerto.

Co-organised with New Hungarian Music Society.

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