Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program conductors
Anthony Millet, accordion
Augustin Muller/IRCAM, sound
Carlo Laurenzi/IRCAM, electronics
Marco Stroppa: new work for accordion and electro-acoustic totem. World premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez: "Dérive 1" for six instruments
Charles Kwong: new work for ensemble. World premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Wei-Chieh Lin: new work for ensemble. World premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Piyawat Louilarpprasert: new work for ensemble. World premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Alyssa Regent: new work for ensemble. World premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival with support from the Fondation Pierre Boulez
Instead of works, Pierre Boulez composed networks. "For me, a musical idea is like a seed: you plant it in a certain soil and suddenly it multiplies like a W**d", he once remarked. When Boulez weaves a delicate fabric of gentle trills, quivering tremolos, and sparkling arpeggios in "Dérive 1", he draws on the same six-note sequence that underlies two other scores: "Messagesquisse" and "Répons". To mark the occasion of Boulez' 100th birthday, we will continue weaving these threads into the present: four composers have been asked to write new ensemble works paying tribute to the celebrated artist. The fifth world premiere presented in this concert will be by our composer-in-residence Marco Stroppa, who worked closely with Boulez at IRCAM in Paris. Stroppa juxtaposes the accordion with an "electro-acoustic totem": a tower of loudspeakers that endows the otherwise intangible electronic sound with an almost human presence.
Photo © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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