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Teng Li, viola

Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano

GRIPPED BY PASSION
Sunday, February 26, 2012

8:00 pm Concert | 7:15 Pre-concert talk

Featuring Teng Li, viola and Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano.

Programme:

Claude Vivier
Wo Bist du licht! (Light, Where Are You?) for mezzo-soprano, ensemble and tape

Giacinto Scelsi
Ohoi
(I principi creativi – The Creative Principles)
for 16 strings

John Rea
Zefiro torna (The Zephyr Returns)

Alfred Schnittke
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

Vivier’s piece, an impassioned plea for light, or enlightenment, layers instruments, sung texts and recorded sound (including Martin Luther King’s last speech) in a sensuous work of tremendous emotional impact.

Ohoi reflects Scelsi’s feeling that he was a medium or emissary merely translating and passing on things received in a state of meditation.

Zefiro torna engages traces of music by Monteverdi with other musics, and ancient winds of a more ominous nature, finally to emerge when the gentle and agreeable wind Zephyr returns … again.

Schnittke’s concerto, lovingly incorporating music from film, dance halls, brass bands and Soviet military marches, is pure passion in its conception and what it requires of the soloist.


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