Justin Taylor's upcoming solo recitals at Opéra de Lille and BOZAR

jUSTIN TAYLOR’s upcoming performances include solo recitals at Opéra de Lille and BOZAR

Friday 7th October | 8pm | Opéra de Lille

Wednesday 12th October | 8pm | Bozar, Brussels

Justin Taylor likes to push his instrument beyond the limits of sound and boundaries of repertoire. For this concert, he combines the audacity of two giants, the Italian baroque Scarlatti and the contemporary Hungarian Ligeti. A taste for extremes? No doubt!

From the former, he has retained two dazzling sonatas, ornamented jewels with a Spanish influence. From the other, the hallucinatory - and hallucinating - Continuum from 1968, inspired by the rotary presses of a printing press, where, writes the composer, “speed leads to the fusion of successive sounds, in such a way that the flight of the prestissimo gives the impression of virtual immobility. But this immobility, so often recognised in my works, clicks and buzzes here like a ghost”.

Friday 7th October | 8pm | Opéra de Lille

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Wednesday 12th October | 8pm | Bozar, Brussels

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Programme

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in D minor , K 32: Aria
Sonata in D minor , K 18: Presto

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Folia

György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Hungarian Rock

Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in A major , K 208: Adagio e cantabile
Sonata in F minor , K 239: Allegro
Sonata in F minor , K 519: Allegro assai

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto in D major , BWV 972 (after Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in D major , RV 230, extr. from L'estro armonico )

György Ligeti
Continuum

Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor , BWV 974: Andante (after Alessandro Marcello, Oboe Concerto in D minor )

Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D major , K 492: Presto