Date / Place I
01 June 2024 Gare du Nord, BaselDate / Place II
02 June 2024 Gare du Nord, BaselSeries
PhoenixTitle
Noriko Hisada PortraitProgram
Noriko Hisada (*1963) “Prognostication” for 5 instruments (1990) – 15’ “Led by the Yellow Bricks” for piano and 5 instruments (2015) – 55’Musicians
- Jürg Henneberger
- piano solo
- Malte Laue
- narrator
- Sebastian Gottschick
- conductor
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, piccolo
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet
- Daniel Stalder
- percussion
- Jürg Henneberger
- piano, celesta
- Friedemann Treiber
- violin
- Daniel Hauptmann
- violin
- Martin Jaggi
- cello
- Rebecca Lawrence
- double bass
Program description
The Japanese composer Noriko Hisada is a quite extraordinary voice of Japan, whose music is unjustly performed far too rarely. The “ensemble für neue musik zürich” has been promoted the music of this composer, who was still unknown in Europe at the time, for over 30 years and premiered her quintet “Prognostication” in Boswil in 1991 with Jürg Henneberger at the piano. EPhB now presents this work together with the seven-part ensemble piece “Led by the Yellow Bricks”, written 25 years later and inspired by Lyman Frank Baum’s children’s book “The Wizard of Oz”.