Brilliant Brass
Sunday
11.02.2024
11:00 — Conservatoire de musique de Genève
Series Chamber music
Chambre music
Mécène

programme
Julia Heirich
Isabelle Bourgeois
cor
Olivier Bombrun
Giuliano Sommerhalder
Gérard Métrailler
trompette
Claude-Alain Barmaz
Laurent Fabre
trumpet
Matteo de Luca
Alexandre Faure
Vincent Métrailler
Andrea Bandini
trombone
Laurent Fouqueray
trombone basse
Ross Knight
tuba
Carte blanche à l'ensemble de cuivres de l'OSR
the music
It is the great Giovanni Gabrieli who will logically open the fires of this festive concert for the brass. Kapellmeister of Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice, he used the architectural particularities of the place by installing the musicians in the two boxes for the choirs facing each other, thus creating a striking spatiality in his famous Canzone. Stereophony was therefore born around 1585! But there will be many other wonders and surprises during this morning with a transcription of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto and arrangements of works by William Byrd and Joseph Haydn. Jazz will not be outdone with the song Lush Life by African-American composer Billy Strayhorn, a standard that will be taken up by many musicians. After the Bruckner Etude by Enrique Crespo in homage to a composer who knew how to write so well for the brass, we will discover the most recent work of this program, Contrasts for 5 trumpets, composed in 2014 by the American composer Anthony Plog. An unusual program that speaks volumes about the curiosity and eclecticism of our musicians.