Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Also this year the major orchestra concert of MaerzMusik will be presented by Orchester des Konzerthauses Berlin under the baton of Johannes Kalitzke. The concert will include three major and magnificent works and shall be performed in honour of Chaya Czernowin’s 50th birthday.

The first piece will be György Ligeti’s Lontano, an orchestral work from 1967 that, together with Atmosphères (1961) and Volumina for organ has marked a paradigmatic change in the more recent history of composition: a counter-movement to serialism, based on serial experiences but focussing on sound and its microstructures, on the composition of colour and light, of areas and volumina.

The different approach to composing – not brought about by Ligeti alone – has since been continuously propelled by new ideas, not least in so-called spectral music.

Beat Furrer’s Phaos for orchestra, his Canti notturni, and Chaya Czernowin’s major cycle Maim continue the intricate work on the refinement of new sounds in colour and noise, on new gestures and expressions, on the experimenting with unusual combinations of sound and noise, and explore new ways of incorporating the complex interplay of individual voices and overall sound into the structures of multiple polyphonies and harmonic ramifications, into the well-known interaction of solo voice(s) and tutti.

19:00 Musikclub Introduction with Hella Melkert