Collegium Novum Zürich | S. Cambreling | J. Nied

The Collegium Novum Zürich under the musical direction of Sylvain Cambreling, in collaboration with the Experimental Studio of SWR and André Richard (Sound Direction), will present new works for chamber orchestra and electronics in the Philharmonie’s Kammermusiksaal as part of MaerzMusik.

Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas ceaselessly fascinates with a music that is dense, concentrated and full of intriguingly luminous worlds of sound. He produces subtle colour out of special overtone series and microtonal disharmonies. His composition ... und ..., written for the Collegium Novum Zürich in 2008, will be premiered in a revised version at MaerzMusik.

Also composed specially for the ensemble and the Experimental Studio was Klaus Ospald’s Così dell’uomo ignara ... This is the third piece in a four-part cycle by the composer inspired by “La ginestra, o il fiore del deserto” (“Gorse or the flower of the desert”), the 24th verse of Giacomo Leopardi’s 1834 poem which compares the power of nature with the transience of man.

The new work by Klaus Huber Erinnere dich an Golgatha … is a revision of the composition Erinnere dich an G. (1977). The composer took the complete body of work and added something new: something new that, by the means of live electronics, was extracted from the work itself and is now being superimposed onto the existing music. A form of work-immanent self reflection. In Erinnere dich an Golgatha …, his first composition in which he incorporated live electronics, Klaus Huber is able, purely with instrumental music, to make the content that the piece commemorates physically perceptible: the worldwide perpetual, terrible torment of hundreds of thousands of prison inmates, who are abused and tortured.

18.00 hrs Exhibition Foyer | Introduction
Max Nyffeler talks to Klaus Huber and André Richard