ECLAT Konzert 14

SWR JetztMusik in ECLAT

Juliana Hodkinson: can modify completely/in this case/not that it will make any difference …
for electric guitar and orchestra (2015/16)

Mike Svoboda: Wittgenstein [&] Twombly
for alto saxophone and orchestra (2017) ^GP

Mariano Etkin: Lágrimas
for orchestra (2016) ^GP

Iris ter Schiphorst: EACH
for amplified solo contrabass clarinet, large orchestra,samples and videos (2017) ^WP
Concept, composition and direction: Iris ter Schiphorst/Uroš Rojko.
Camera and image design: Andreas Brehmer
Programming and sound direction: Matthias Schneider-Hollek
Sound recording: Anton Kossjanenko, sound assistance: Ron Freyenschlag/24′

Aart Strootman, electric guitar
Marcus Weiss, saxophone
Theo Nabicht, double bass clarinet
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Manuel Nawri

Broadcast: 6. 4./SWR2 Evening Concert 8.03 p.m.

Encounters of the unusual kind: it seems natural for a high-register orchestral instrument–a violin, for example–to step forward as a soloist. But what happens when an instrument from lower regions wants to assert itself in the same way–the very lowest region, so low that it normally doesn’t even appear in orchestral scores? Or one whose sonic origins are still associated more with jazz and clubs then the concert hall? Or one that–unlike orches-tral instruments–is by ‘nature’ electrified? These are all ‘things of which we do not know what they are.’ Between them: »Lágrimas«, the quiet last piece written by the Argentine composer Mariano Etkin, who died in 2016.