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Details

Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2AP
England


Programme

Pierre Boulez'... explosante-fixe ...'
~ Interval ~
György LigetiLontano
Béla BartókConcerto for Orchestra, Sz.116

Performers

Sophie Cherrier – flute
François-Xavier Roth – Conductor

SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg

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Programme Note

Bartók wasn’t the first composer to write a Concerto for Orchestra, but freewheeling virtuosity and rhythmic energy set this one apart. Treating individual instruments as soloists or partners in exhilarating duets-to-the-death, Bartók reinvents the orchestra itself. The whole classical canon seems dissolved in Ligeti’s Lontano, in which familiar harmonies and styles are suspended in space and time, and resolution continually hangs just out of reach. Turning classical rules of development on their head, Boulez’s ‘… explosante-fixe …’ works backwards, moving from its most complex material to its primary, original source (see also PSM 4, 29 August). It’s audacious and completely compelling.

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