musica viva: Duncan Ward & Lawrence Power

Date & Time

Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 20:00

Venue

Collisions: Before “the combustion engine and radio monopolized earth and air” (Ives), one could experience the stillness of night even in New York. In Central Park in the Dark, stillness is interrupted by distant noises – including a passing street band. A second dimension is also present in Sofia Gubaidulina’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra via a solo string quartet tuned a quarter tone lower than the other instruments of the orchestra. Both works provide the framework for this concert... Read full text

Keywords: Contemporary, World Premiere

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Musicians

Duncan Ward	Conductor
Lawrence Power	Viola
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

“Central Park in the Dark”	Charles Ives
“Mali svitac” for orchestra	Milica Djordjević
“sparks, waves and horizons” for orchestra commissioned by Bavarian Radio’s musica viva series, with the kind support of the Freunde des BRSO e. V. world premiere	Minas Bourbodakis
“Čvor” for winds, brass, piano and percussion	Milica Djordjević
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra	Sofia Gubaidulina

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