Date / Place I
16 February 2023 Gare du Nord, BaselDate / Place II
17 February 2023 Gare du Nord, BaselSeries
PhoenixTitle
Pioneers of New Music: New Viennese SchoolProgram
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) “Herzgewächse” op. 20 (Maurice Maeterlinck) for high soprano, celesta, harmonium and harp (1911) – 4’ “Suite” op. 29 for clarinet in Eb, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano (1925/1926) – 29’ Anton Webern (1883–1945) “Sechs Stücke” op. 6 for orchestra, (1909, version for chamber orchestra 1920) – 12’ “Zwei Lieder” op. 8 on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke for voice and instruments (1910) – 5’ “Sechs Lieder” op. 14 on poems by Georg Trakl for voice and instruments (1917/1921) – 6’ Alban Berg (1885–1935) “Lied der Lulu” and “Adagio” from the opera “Lulu” (Frank Wedekind), for soprano and orchestra (1927–1935), arranged for soprano and ensemble by Jürg Henneberger (2022) – 10’Musicians
- Svea Schildknecht
- soprano
- Jürg Henneberger
- conductor
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, piccolo, alto flute
- Antje Thierbach
- oboe, English horn
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet, bass clarinet, clarinet in Eb
- Benjamin Pallagi
- clarinet in Eb
- Richard Haynes
- bass clarinet
- Aurélien Tschopp
- horn
- Nenad Marković
- trumpet
- Michael Büttler
- trombone
- Consuelo Giulianelli
- harp
- Daniel Stalder
- percussion
- Manuel Bärtsch
- piano, celesta
- Ludovic Van Hellemont
- harmonium, celesta
- Friedemann Treiber
- violin
- David Sontòn Caflisch
- violin
- Petra Ackermann
- viola
- Stéphanie Meyer
- cello
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass
Program description
With great passion and dedication, EPhB regularly devotes itself to the New Viennese School,
The three pioneers of this style have had a decisive influence on European New Music. With his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg created music that on the one hand is deeply rooted in Romanticism, and on the other – to quote Stefan George, whose poems were often and willingly set to music by the three composers – this music breathes “air from another planet”. The “dodecaphony” invented by Schoenberg – the twelve-tone technique – has influenced generations of composers and was the initial spark for further style-forming tendencies such as serial music.
In this program, songs for high soprano with ensemble are heard, framed by original instrumental pieces and arrangements of larger orchestral works, in keeping with the tradition of the “Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen” (Society for Private Musical Performances) founded by Schönberg in 1918 – which was dissolved again as early as 1921.