Façade – an Entertainment
Façade – an Entertainment combines the dazzling incidental music of William Walton with the surrealistic, onomatopoeic poems of the English poet Edith Sitwell, performed by the renowned Scottish voice artist and actor Graham F. Valentine. With her striving for freedom, Edith Sitwell fought against Victorian double standards and provoked many a scandal in the 1920s. Today, the rise of regressive forces repeatedly threatens our democratic values. Two new, explosive ensemble works by Swiss-based composers Asia Ahmetjanova and Charlotte Torres, which were premiered at the “Gare du Nord” Basel in April of this year, provide fresh courage in the program of Ensemble Phoenix Basel.
NAXOS Hallenkonzerte
Produktionshaus NAXOS
Waldschmidtstraße 19
60316 Frankfurt am Main
https://naxoshallenkonzerte.de/facade/
Program
- Graham F. Valentine
- voice
- Jürg Henneberger
- conductor
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, piccolo
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinets, bass clarinet
- Raphael Camenisch
- alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone
- Johann Tuttle
- trumpet, piccolo trumpet
- Antonio Jiménez-Marín
- trombone
- Daniel Stalder
- percussion
- Kirill Zvegintsov
- piano
- Friedemann Treiber
- violin
- Martin Jaggi
- cello
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass