Johanna Malangré conducts two concerts as part of this years Lucerne Festival
This Summer Johanna Malangré will conduct two concerts as part of the Lucerne Festival on August 28th and 29th.
Lucerne Festival is one of the leading international festivals in the world of classical music. Lucerne Festival was founded in 1938. The central festival takes place in summer from mid-August to mid-September and offers a widely varied range of approximately 100 concerts and related events. Each Summer Festival features a guiding theme that runs dramaturgically through the programming. The Festival presents a diverse array of formats, including symphony concerts, chamber music, recitals, debuts, late night events, and much more.
You can watch this years Summer Festival Trailer here:
August 28th 2021
Lucerne Festival Academy 1 - SAT, 28.08. | 22.00 | No. 212311 - KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Johanna Malangré conductor
Juliet Fraser soprano
Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)
Syrmos for 18 strings
Márton Illés (*1975)
Post Torso for string orchestra
Swiss premiere
Rebecca Saunders (*1967)
Nether for soprano and ensemble
Swiss premiere
“You have to let out the monster in you”
This conviction guides Rebecca Saunders when she composes for voice. She does not merely want to set a text to music, but tries to ‘give the text a new framework and environment, letting it resonate in an acoustic landscape in order to create a new perspective from which the essence of the text can be heard and felt’ – whether working with spoken, whispered, or sung text. In several works, this year’s composer-in-residence has drawn inspiration from Molly Bloom’s famous final monologue in James Joyce’s century-old novel Ulysses. Nether from 2019 translates Molly’s chaotic stream of consciousness, a wild whirl of flashes of mind, scraps of memory, and sensory impressions, into a highly emotional vocal performance. Iannis Xenakis and Martón Illés also set out in search of new sounds in two energetic works for string orchestra that are separated by almost half a century. Glissandi and pizzicato attacks migrate through the instruments, are layered on top of each other, condense, and break off unexpectedly. High-voltage music!
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© Zuzanna Specjał
August 29th 2021
Lucerne Festival Academy 2 - SUN, 29.08. | 16.00 | No. 212312 - KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Lin Liao conductor (Milenko)
Johanna Malangré conductor (Vaughan)
Heinz Holliger conductor
Felix Renggli flute
Kirsten Milenko (*1993)
Traho for orchestra
Roche Young Commissions world premiere
Alex Vaughan (*1987)
Logos for orchestra
Roche Young Commissions world premiere
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–1791)
Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K. 477 (479a)
Heinz Holliger (*1939)
Ostinato funebre for small orchestra
“Music only takes place at the borderlines. There is nothing in the middle that could be of interest to art,”
Heinz Holliger believes…which is why he has always been fascinated by artists in crisis: border crossers on the fringes of society who have been classified as “crazy” and shipped off to the insane asylum. For Holliger, however, they “simply have many more antennae.” Thus, in his Turm-Musik (Tower Music), a central part of his Scardanelli cycle written over a period of 16 years, he intensively explored Friedrich Hölderlin and his late poems, which were always signed with the pseudonym Scardanelli. Hölderlin (who is said to have been a good flutist) wrote them during the 37 years of his life that he spent as “incurably mentally ill” in the seclusion of a tower in Tübingen. Ostinato funebre, which is also part of the Scardanelli cycle, at the same time pays homage to another artist: here Holliger quotes, paraphrases, distorts, and overwrites Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music. In addition, the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra premieres two scores that were created as part of the Roche Young Commissions series.