NDR das neue werk: Michael Barenboim

»In Celebration of Salvatore Sciarrino’s 70th Birthday«

This concert has already taken place! 16.20 | 22.20 | 27.20
This concert has already taken place! 16.20 | 22.20 | 27.20
Michael Barenboim
Michael Barenboim © Yannick Perrin
Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino © Luca Carrà / RaiTrade
  • Doors open 17:00

  • Start 18:00

  • Interval

  • End ca. 19:20

Description

To mark the composer’s 70th birthday, NDR (North German Radio) is devoting an evening with two concerts at the Elbphilharmonie to the grand master of subtle nuances, Salvatore Sciarrino: an early concert with Michael Barenboim, and a special concert with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester under the baton of David Zinman.

The history of music and the special traditions of a repertoire or a genre are always present in Salvatore Sciarrino’s works. The concert with Michael Barenboim shows the history-conscious composer’s attitude to violin virtuosity: the programme features Tartini’s sonata »The Devil’s Trill« and a selection of Paganini’s Capricci as showpieces of demonic violin-playing. And Sciarrino’s own cycle of Capricci provides a cryptic commentary thereupon.

Sciarrino’s countryman and fellow composer Luciano Berio had a similar relationship to his predecessors: his »Sequenza« contains clear reminiscences of Bach’s great Chaconne in d minor. Berio asked of the ideal interpreter of his music that he »continually make the listener aware of the history behind each instrumental gesture«.

Performers

Michael Barenboim violin

Programme

Giuseppe Tartini
Sonate g-Moll »Teufelstriller-Sonate«

Salvatore Sciarrino
Sechs Capricci für Violine solo

– Interval –

Luciano Berio
Sequenza VIII für Violine

Niccolò Paganini
Caprice für Violine solo E-Dur op. 1/1
Caprice für Violine solo g-Moll op. 1/6
Caprice für Violine solo Es-Dur op. 1/17
Caprice für Violine solo g-Moll op. 1/16
Caprice in A minor, Op. 1/24 for Solo Violin

Promoter: NDR

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