Date / Place I
06 February 2021 Gare du Nord, BaselDate / Place II
07 February 2021 Gare du Nord, BaselSeries
PhoenixTitle
Javier Maldonado & Swiss Composers IIProgram
Javier Torres Maldonado (*1968) “Fénix (naturaleza visible)” double chamber concerto for two guitars and ensemble (Pablo Márquez and Maurizio Grandinetti gewidmet) (2019/20, UA, Auftrag EPhB) – 15' “Oltre” for 10 instruments (2017) – 10' Balz Trümpy (*1946) “chamber concerto” for ensemble (2020, WP, commission EPhB) – 16'Musicians
- Pablo Márquez
- guitar solo
- Maurizio Grandinetti
- guitar solo
- Jürg Henneberger
- conductor
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, alto flute
- Antje Thierbach
- oboe, English horn
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet, bass clarinet
- Donna Molinari
- bass clarinet
- Simon Kissling
- horn
- Simon Lilly
- trumpet
- Michael Büttler
- trombone
- Daniel Stalder
- percussion
- Ludovic Van Hellemont
- piano, celesta
- Friedemann Treiber
- violin
- Daniel Hauptmann
- violin
- Alessandro D’Amico
- viola
- Stéphanie Meyer
- cello
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass
Program description
CANCELLED DUE TO THE CURRENT CORONA CRISIS!
Instead of sending another online stream out, we produce an LP with the new pieces of this program.
The Mexican composer Javier Torres Maldonado studied in Milan with Franco Donatoni and Ivan Fedele. His music is based on the overtone spectrum of a sound and is extremely complex due to the superimposition of various melodic and rhythmic layers. Maldonado compares his musical language with the pictorial language of Piranesi and M. C. Escher, which through its imagined perspective creates an illusory world that not only allows an individual point of view, but virtually challenges it. The ear is meant to focus on different spatial and temporal planes like a rotating lens.
At the center of the program is a double concerto for two guitars and ensemble, which Maldonado wrote for the guitarist Pablo Márquez, who teaches in Basel, and the guitarist of the “Ensemble Phoenix Basel” Maurizio Grandinetti. His work “Oltre” is a tribute to his teacher Donatoni.
The program is complemented by two new works by Basel-based composer Balz Trümpy.