Program

Part. I

• Pierre Boulez : Sonatine (for flute and piano)
• Januibe Tejera : Flashforward I (for ensemble)
• Georges Aperghis : Champ-contrechamp (for piano and ensemble)

INTERMISSION

Part. II

• Aurélio Edler-Copes : Como el aire (for ensemble)
• Helmut Lachenmann : Pression (for cello)
• Luciano Berio : Calmo (for mezzo-soprano and twenty two instrumentalists)

INTERMISSION

Part. III

• Georges Aperghis : Contretemps (for soprano and ensemble)

Ensemble intercontemporain
Baldur Brönnimann, directior
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano
Dimitri Vassilakis, piano
Pierre Strauch, cello
Technique EIC

Description

Like Paul Klee’s watercolour Before the Lightning, Aperghis’s works reach towards the instant when lightning flashes – whether in the micro-dramas of his musical theatre pieces or in his 2010 piano concerto Champ-Contrechamp with its continual changes in perspective.

Coproduction Ensemble intercontemporain, Paris Philharmonic