Date / Place I
13 April 2019 Gare du Nord, BaselDate / Place II
14 April 2019 Gare du Nord, BaselSeries
PhoenixTitle
“Melody ?”Program
György Ligeti (1923–2006) “Melodien” (melodies) for 16 instrumentalists (1971) – 15’ Christophe Schiess (*1974) “Empreintes de temps” (time prints) for eleven instruments (2010) – 10’ Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953) “Ich suchte, aber ich fand ihn nicht.” (I searched, but I couldn’t find him.) for 18 instrumentalists (1971) – 25’Musicians
- Jürg Henneberger
- conductor
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, piccolo
- Alexander Ott
- oboe, oboe d’amore
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet
- Richard Haynes
- bass clarinet
- Lucas Rößner
- bassoon, contraforte
- Povilas Bingelis
- bassoon
- Aurélien Tschopp
- horn, double bell horn
- Simon Kissling
- horn
- Nenad Marković
- trumpet, double bell trumpet
- Michael Büttler
- trombone
- Antonio Jiménez-Marín
- double bell trombone
- Janne Jakobsson
- tuba
- Daniel Stalder
- percussion
- João Pacheco
- percussion
- Ludovic Van Hellemont
- piano, celesta, harmonium
- Friedemann Treiber
- violin
- Daniel Hauptmann
- violin
- Alessandro D’Amico
- viola
- Stéphanie Meyer
- cello
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass
- Daniel Sailer
- double bass
Program description
In this concert, we explore the question what role melody still plays in contemporary music. György Ligeti already posed this provocative question in 1971 with his title of the orchestral work “Melodies”.
Christophe Schiess, composer from Biel, was a composition student of Georg Friedrich Haas. We have maintained an intensive artistic exchange with him since 2008. The work “empreintes de temps” was premiered by EPhB at the “Schlusskonzerte Komposition” of Music Academy Basel in 2010.
Georg Friedrich Haas taught at the Music Academy Basel from 2005 to 2013. He has set musically important accents not only there, but for the whole music city of Basel (worth mentioning here “In Vain” 2003 at the Theater Basel, “… damit … die Geister der Menschen erhellt und ihr Verstand erleuchtet werden …” 2010 on the occasion of the “Dies Academicus” in the Basel Cathedral, both with the EPhB).