The Brooklyn Rider string quartet plays music from the 20th and 21st centuries about the elemental forces of nature: earth, air, fire, water.
Fri. 15.9.2023
19:30, Kreuzung an St. Helena
Four Elements
- Past Event
- € 38
Contributors
- Brooklyn Rider
- Johnny Gandelsman violin
- Colin Jacobsen violin
- Nicholas Cords viola
- Michael Nicolas violoncello
Programme
Colin Jacobsen
»A Short While To Be Here«, based on American folk songs, collected by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Andreia Pinto Correia
»Aere senza stelle«
Henri Dutilleux
String Quartet »Ainsi la nuit«
Akshaya Avril Tucker
»Hollow Flame«
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, op. 110
Dan Trueman
»Under My Feet«
Conrad Tao
»Undone«
Osvaldo Golijov
»Tenebrae«
Concert with 2 breaks. Concert duration approx. 140 Minutes.
18:45, Kreuzung an St. Helena
Concert introduction
Barbara Stach (Beethovenfest Bonn) in conversation with the musicians and Dr. Burkhard Severin (Kreuzung an St. Helena)
Auf einen Blick
What awaits me?
What is special about the concert?
Brooklyn Rider has commissioned a new work for each element. The new pieces address the threat to the balance of nature and the climate.
How does it sound?
Description
The four elements are primal forces to which we feel an instinctive connection. Inspired by rapidly intensifying environmental imbalances, Brooklyn Rider has created a concert based on the concept of the balance between the elements. The ensemble commissioned new works for the elements Earth, Water, Air and Fire, which they perform alongside classical modernist works.
Earth:
Suite of American Folk Songs, collected by Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), arr. by Colin Jacobsen
Dan Trueman: »Under My Feet« (2022)
Air:
Andreia Pinto Correia: »Aere senza stelle« (2022)
Henri Dutilleux: String Quartet »Ainsi la nuit« (1977)
Fire:
Akshaya Avril Tucker: »Hollow Flame« (2022)
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 (1960)
Water:
Conrad Tao: »Undone« (2022)
Osvaldo Golijov: »Tenebrae« (2002)
