Venite a dire

UA Witten, 08.05.2022

"Mes Adieux" by Helmut Lachenmann

Peter Eötvös, Psychokosmos for cimbalom & orchestra
Luigi Gaggero, cimbalom
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Markus Poschner, conductor

Peter Eötvös - Psychokosmos for cimbalom & orchestra

Dabeen Jeon - Garak I for soprano solo (2021)

Commissioned by Sop. Hye-young Kim

World Première 24. Oct. 2021, Chiesa di San Giorgio, Rieti

Dabeen Jeon - Garak I for soprano solo (2021)

Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (2024-5) 

Jonathan Leibovitz, clarinet | Quatuor Agate

Commissioned by Ipswich Chamber Music Society for their 100th Anniversary

Recorded live at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, February 2025


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"My Clarinet Quintet is cast in a single continuous movement. After a slow and sombre opening, the music gradually builds to a climax across a complex web of rising tempos, before settling downwards towards its point of departure and falling beyond. About half way through, there is a moment of radical change—all tension is dropped and a wash of memories comes flooding in. As the music flows towards its conclusion, from bar to bar it acquires an almost magnetic attraction towards one particular harmony into which, with utmost tenderness, it ultimately resolves. Very often the music flickers and crackles, rather like an old black-and-white film. 

"As I was composing the piece, I read several novels by the Korean writer Han Kang, who received the Nobel Prize in October. Her tender and extremely pointed use of language (often embodying deeply felt emotion with immense restraint) inspired me to treat each note with equal intensity and care."

Clarinet Quintet (2024-25)

https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/bel-canto/

Bel Canto

Commissioned by Ensemble Kore with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Recipient of the 2011 Jules-Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (Canada’s highest honour for composition)

Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano
Geneviève Déraspe, alto flute
Xavier Brossard-Ménard, clarinet
Jonathan Barriault, guitar
John Corban, violin
Pemi Paull, viola
Yegor Dyachkov, cello

The piece is above all a portrait Maria Callas. It’s based on the opening statement (the opening sighs) of Puccini’s Vissi d’arte – Maria Callas’ live version of it, with all the full generosity of her vibrato, swoops and portamenti (all the things outside of notation). At the beginning, it’s as if we hear her young voice, and towards the end, the voice of her later years.

The path of the piece through time is not only about the ageing of an extraordinary woman, but also about the listener. Time slows down to allow for an engagement with detail, for a closeness or submersion in the sound, and possibly for clarity or meditative stillness.

Two simultaneous ensembles perform here without coordinating with each other. This makes for layers of melody, creating a sonic depth of field – echoing perhaps the depth of the Greek landscape in which I felt the warm revelation that originally inspired this piece. Moreover, to separate the ensemble into two smaller groups, without conductor, enables an intense chamber-listening between the players. This intimacy allows them to carry out with great musicality all of the non-notatable things I mentioned earlier – the swoops and vibrato, and all the unnamable subtleties of vocality.

Bel Canto

Bel Canto, Ensemble Kore with Marie-Annick Béliveau (2010)

Le Crépuscule de Yang Koueï Fei (1957)- An Adaptation of a Chinese dramatic poem by Georges Lecomte.  Music by Pierre Boulez; Realization by Alain Trutat; Musical Direction by Pierre Boulez.  Recording date July 1, 1957.   From the archives of the INA.

LECOMTE-BOULEZ - CREPUSCULE DE YANG KOUEI FEI 1957-07-01

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MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra
commissioned by Westdeutschen Rundfunk and Wien Modern

Live Recording WDR Orchestra, 12 May 2019, Witten

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra

Etude. 1

Dieter Ammann (*1962)
regard sur les traditions (1995)

Musiques Suisses 2007
Aufnahme: Radio DRS 2, Studio Zürich
Tonmeister: Andreas Werner

Clarinet Quintet (2024-25)

Sebastian Black

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