Essential Sciarrino+

Date ╱ 21. 11. 2024
Time ╱ 19:00
Venue ╱ DOX+ (map)

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Performers:
Ostravská banda & members of ONO – Ostrava New Orchestra
Quartetto Prometeo
Nurit Stark, 1st violin
Aldo Campagnari, 2nd violin
Danusha Waskiewicz, viola
Francesco Dillon, violoncello
Hana Kotková, violin
Anna Radziejewska, mezzosoprano
Otto Katzameier, baritone
Petr Kotík, conductor

Program:
Salvatore Sciarrino: Il silenzio degli oracoli (1989)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Quaderno di strada (2003)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Efebo con radio (1981)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Allegoria della notte (1985)
––– intermission
Luigi Nono: Fragmente – Stille, an Diotima (1979–80)

We are returning to Prague's DOX+ after a year with an extraordinary concert from the series of Essential concerts. We will present the exceptional work of the Italian avant-garde composer of uncompromising and fragile music Salvatore Sciarrino (1947). His operas and concert works have been performed in Ostrava for many years. Sciarrino's work is appreciated on prestigious stages in Europe and the USA, but is heard sporadically in Prague. The concert will present a quartet of compositions embodying Sciarrino's original sound poetics. "Acoustic theatre of night sounds" evoking the mysteriousness of murmurs, creaking of old furniture, distant sounds of the sea, birds singing, wind rustling, heartbeat... The singing parts will be performed by leading interpreters of Sciarrino's music – Anna Radziejewska and Otto Katzameier. The solo part in the violin concerto Allegoria della notte will be performed by Hana Kotková. The conductor of the evening will be Petr Kotík. The string quartet Fragmente – Stille, an Diotima, composed by the Venetian Luigi Nono (1924–1990), the great avant-garde musician of the 20th century, is also characterised by its intimacy, introvertedness and mystery. At DOX+, the Quartetto Prometeo from Milano will also remind us of the centenary of Nono's birth.