Scelsi Festival 2017

Giacinto Scelsi Festival 7 – 15 January 2017

Composer in residence: Barbara Monk Feldman

LE SOUFFLE

7 / 8 January at Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland and
15 January at Basel Minster

Preliminary Programme

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Saturday 7 January, Gare du Nord, Basel
6pm: Part 1 “Solitaire le vent des profondeurs”

Welcome to composer in residence Barbara Monk Feldman with

Barbara Monk Feldman (*1953): Soft Horizons for piano
Marianne Schroeder – piano (23′)

 Morton Feldman: Jackson Pollock (1951) for 2 ‘cellos & film
collaboration with Paul Sacher Foundation; 
Rohan de Saram and Karolina Öhmann – ‘cellos

Giacinto Scelsi: Action Music No 1 (1955)
Marianne Schroeder – Piano

 – Interval with refreshments- 

8 – 10:15pm: Part 2 Rohan de Saram – ‘cello, Franziska Hirzel – soprano

Luciano Berio: Sequenza XIV (2002) for violoncello,
written for Rohan de Saram
Rohan de Saram – ‘cello, electronic amplification t.b.c

Maurice Ravel: Chansons Madécasses (1925-26) for soprano, flute, ‘cello & piano
Franziska Hirzel, Anja Clift, Rohan de Saram, Marianne Schroeder

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Pervez Mody – piano, Hans Zischler – speaker, et al.

Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No 9 op. 68; Préludes op. 67; 2 Poèmes op. 44; Deux Danses op. 73

Giacinto Scelsi Pater Noster (1970) for solo voice
Kornelia Bruggmann

Alexander Scriabin: Poème op. 72 (1914) “Vers la flamme

Giacinto Scelsi: 2 Preludi (1930 – 1940); Quattro Illustrazioni (1953)
Pervez Mody – piano; Martin Burr – scents

Giacinto Scelsi: Extracts from Il sogno 101 (1974/86) reading

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Sunday 8 January, Gare du Nord, Basel
11am – 1pm Matinée: “La lucidité du cerveau” G.S. 1962

Anonymous / Giacinto Scelsi: Il est grand temps (1970)
Le grand sancteur (1970) for solo tenor
Tino Brütsch

Giacinto Scelsi: Il funerale di Carlo Magno A. D. 814 (1976) for ‘cello and percussion
Rohan and Suren de Saram

Improvisation for ‘cello, percussion and piano

Giacinto Scelsi: Sauh (1973) for two sopranos
Andrea Suter, Roswitha Müller

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Lucilla Galeazzi – voice, Hans Zischler – speaker, et al.

Jürg Wyttenbach: Sonatine über rätoromanische Volksweisen (1952, 2001)
Marianne Schroeder – piano

Lucilla Galeazzi: Old Italian folk songs
Lucilla Galeazzi – voice

Giacinto Scelsi: Extract from Il sogno 101 (1974 / 86) reading

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Sunday 8 January 6pm-7:15pm, Gare du Nord Basel
Discussion and lecture: Scelsi’s Library; Our Composers
Irmela Heimbächer, Prof. Menke, Dr. Felix Meyer, Dr. Carlotta Pellegrini

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Sunday 8 January 7:30pm – 10pm, Gare du Nord, Basel
Concert 3: “Clarté plus haute les
astres”
Ursula Oppens – piano, Rohan de Saram – ‘cello, Kornelia Bruggmann et al.

Elliott Carter: Night Fantasies (1980); Two Diversions (1999)

Igor Stravinsky: Sonata for piano (1924)

Conlon Nancarrow: Two Canons for Ursula (1989)

Christian Wolff: Bread and Roses (1978)

Giacinto Scelsi: Extract from Voyages (1974) “Il allait seul” for violoncello

Interval with light refreshments

Giacinto Scelsi: Triphon (1956) for solo ‘cello, 2nd movement

Giacinto Scelsi: Khoom (1962) for soprano and 7 instruments
“Sept episodes d’une histoire d’amour et de mort non-écrite dans un pays lointain”

Kornelia Bruggmann – soprano, horn – t.b.c, Beethoven Quartett, Mathias Wünsch and Christian Dierstein – percussion, conductor – t.b.c

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Sunday 15 January, Münster Basel 6pm – 7:30pm
From the New World. Epiphania

Giacinto Scelsi, Antonin Dvorak, J.S. Bach, Zsigmond Zsathmary, Notker of St Gall, Sofia Gubaidulina
Summi regis; Laudes regiae; Scelsi Aleluia, Ave Maria; Ratpert Ardua spes mundi;
Zsigmond Zsathmary, Gudrun Sidonie Otto, Ensemble Peregrina, Kelly Landerkin et al.