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Tickets and concert organised by the City of Geneva

Les concerts du dimanche

Gli Angeli & l'OSR

Sunday

17.03.2024

17:00 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Opera & Voice

Programme

Stephan Macleoddirection & basse

Aleksandra Lewandowskasoprano

William Sheltonviola

William KnightOlivier CoiffetAndrew Tortisetenor

Marc Mauillonbaritone

Gli Angeli Genèveensemble

Guillaume de Machaut
Mass of Our Lady (La Messe de Nostre Dame)

Igor Stravinsk
Mass, for mixed chorus and double wind quintet

Carlo Gesualdo
Tres sacrae cantiones (completed by Igor Stravinski), for mixed choir a cappella

Carlo Gesualdo
Madrigaux

Igor Stravinski
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum

The music

Although created in this temple of opera that is La Scala in Milan under the direction of Ernest Ansermet in 1948, the Mass belongs to the last period of Stravinsky. Designed to be part of the Roman Catholic liturgy, it is deliberately “cold, absolutely cold” with an extreme and austere starkness. At that time, Stravinsky became passionate about the Ars nova musicians of the 14th century, and in particular the Messe de Nostre-Dame by Guillaume de Machault. About ten years later, when he began to use the serial technique, he discovered the strange music of Carlo Gesualdo and completed Tres Sacrae cantiones left unfinished, then he arranged three madrigals for the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Neapolitan composer in the form of a Monumentum pro Gesualdo da Venosa created at the Doge's Palace in Venice in 1960, then choreographed by George Balanchine for his New York City Ballet. It is a great opportunity to hear during this concert the sources, then the realization that they inspired to one of the greatest composers of the 20th century in works that have remained very confidential.

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The venues

OSR Live

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JONATHAN NOTT

Conductor

Yvonne Naef

mezzo-soprano

György Ligeti
Poème symphonique, pour cent métronomes

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm süsser Tod (orchestration by Leopold Stokowski)

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Recorded on 21 January 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Claude Debussy - Duke Ellington - Richard Strauss

Rhapsodie pour clarinette - New World A-Comin' - Don Quichotte

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Marc Perrenoud

artist in residence , piano

Recorded on 21 September 2022 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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