Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra / Matthias Pintscher
Cerha: Spiegel I-VII
This concert has already taken place!
€10
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17
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36
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52
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57
This concert has already taken place!
€10
|
17
|
36
|
52
|
57
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Doors open 19:00
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Start 20:00
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End ca. 21:30
Description
When Friedrich Cerha, the pioneer of modern Austrian music, accepted the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2012, he did so with the same coolness with which he responded to the hostility his compositions elicited back in the 1960s. He has retained his critical thinking to the present day.
The title of Cerha’s epoch-making orchestral cycle »Spiegel« (Mirrors), written in 1960/61, can be taken literally. The composer himself has said that many of the »wartime experiences that I hadn’t really dealt with are washed up on shore« in this music. And to this day, the seven-part work clearly reflects the radical changes, questions and issues of the 1960s, likewise Cerha’s unyielding search for absolute musical freedom.
Contemporary music calls for open-minded performers: that was the case back then, and it still applies today. In 1958 Cerha was a co-founder of the ensemble »die reihe«. 2003 saw the establishment of a forum that gives outstanding young musicians the opportunity to fill 20th and 21st century scores with life together with the Lucerne Festival Academy under Pierre Boulez. The perfect ensemble, then, for Cerha’s »Spiegel«. On the rostrum: Matthias Pintscher, the Academy’s principal conductor and one of today’s leading composers.
Performers
Orchester der Lucerne Festival Academy
conductor Matthias Pintscher
Promoter: HamburgMusik
