Fauré's Requiem
Wednesday
04.10.2023
19:30 — Victoria Hall
Series O
Contemporary music, Opera & Voice, World premiere
Sponsor
Thursday
05.10.2023
20:15 — Théâtre de Beaulieu
Series Lausanne
Contemporary music, Opera & Voice, World premiere
programme
Jonathan Nott
conductor
Martin Fröst
clarinet & artist in residence
James Atkinson
baritone
Chœur de chambre de la Haute école de musique de Genève
choir
György Ligeti
Apparitions, for orchestra
Claude Debussy
Nocturnes, symphonic triptyque, No. 2 Festivals
Michael Jarrell composer in residence
N. N., piece for clarinet and orchestra (world premiere)
Commission of the OSR
Gabriel Fauré
Requiem, for soprano, baryton, choir and orchestra Op. 48
the music
Designed, in the words of the composer, as a "Lullaby of death", Fauré's soft and soothing Requiem will be preceded by the Apparitions that György Ligeti composed as soon as he moved to the West, when he took refuge in Vienna after the Hungarian anti-communist revolt in 1956. In this work, he radicalizes the serial technique by a total destruction of intervals, creating a world of extremely complex musical intertwinings leading to a troubled and mysterious sound universe. Influenced by the seductive Nocturnesof the English painter Whistler, Debussy composed his Trois Nocturnes for orchestra, the second of which, Fêtes, describes a fantasized July 14, crossed by a chimerical and colorful procession. Flagship evening for our two artists in residence with the eagerly awaited world premiere of a work composed especially by Michael Jarrell for clarinetist Martin Fröst which will seal the meeting of a recognized composer and an extraordinary virtuoso.