GRIPPED BY PASSION
8:00 pm Concert | 7:15 Pre-concert talk
Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory
In the TELUS Centre for
Performance and Learning
273 Bloor Street West
Tickets: 416.408.0208
or performance.rcmusic.ca
Featuring
Alex Pauk, conductor
Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano
Teng Li, viola
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.
