Ensemble Resonanz / Toshio Hosokawa
Resonances 6: Fragments of an ... Eternal Language / Fragmente einer Sprache ... der Ewigkeit
Breath. Pulse. Circulation. In Toshio Hosokawa’s music, you are carried off into an eternal cycle of genesis and decline. The most significant living Japanese composer takes the podium tonight, leading the Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz.
Hosokawa musical vision is an ideal harmony of forces, influenced by the equalisation of opposites. In each of his currently nine-part music cycle »Voyages«, solo instruments - representing the people - and an ensemble - representing the universe - are placed in conversation. The trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts and Ensemble Resonanz launch themselves into a journey within themselves and inside sound in Hosokawa’s »Voyage VII«, his seventh journey; subsequently a completely new work for Recorder and Strings is premiered.
Two Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach surround Hosakawa’s works. In the second concerto, the trumpet shines as a member of the soloist quartet with its radiating pirouettes. The first movement was chosen as the first piece of music on the Voyager Golden Record, a phonograph accompanying both of the 1977-launched Voyager spacecrafts in space, intended for extraterrestrial beings or future humans.
Performers
Ensemble Resonanz
Jeremias Schwarzer recorder
Jeroen Berwaerts trumpet
conductor Toshio Hosokawa
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 3 G-Dur BWV 1048
Toshio Hosokawa
Voyage VII für Trompete, Streicher und Schlagzeug
Neues Werk für Blockflöte und Streicher
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 2 F-Dur BWV 1047