Date / Place I
02 March 2024 Gare du Nord, BaselDate / Place II
03 March 2024 Gare du Nord, BaselSeries
PhoenixTitle
Russia’s other voicesProgram
Marina Khorkova (*1981) “collision” for seven instruments (2015) – 26’ Alexander Khubeev (*1986) “Don’t leave the room” (on text by Joseph Brodsky) for performer in sign language, ensemble and live-video (2020) – 14’ Daniil Posazhennikov (*1994) new work for ensemble (2023/24, WP, commission EPhB) – 15’ Galina Ustvolskaïa (1919–2006) Symphonie No. 5 “Amen” for speaker and 5 instruments (1989/90) – 13’Musicians
- Daniel Stalder
- performer
- Kirill Zvegintsov
- speaker
- Miro Widmer («mirofilm»)
- film
- Jürg Henneberger
- conductor
- Christoph Bösch
- flute
- Antje Thierbach
- oboe
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet
- Nenad Marković
- trumpet
- Antonio Jiménez-Marín
- trombone
- Janne Jakobsson
- tuba
- Maurizio Grandinetti
- electric guitar
- Daniel Stalder
- percussion
- João Pacheco
- percussion
- Kirill Zvegintsov
- piano, keyboard
- Friedemann Treiber
- violin
- Stéphanie Meyer
- cello
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass
- Cedric Spindler
- electronics
- Mario Henkel
- video engineer
Program description
Our response to the global boycott of Russian artists in a pacifist frame of mind. These “other” voices from Russia must and should be heard, for they have significant things to say, whether older or younger.
The composer Galina Ustvolskaïa was once a favorite student of Dmitri Shostakovich and lived in seclusion in Siberia after the end of the Second World War until her death. Her works were hardly played until 1968. It was not until the 1990s that she achieved a certain degree of recognition abroad.
Alexander Khubeev uses multimedia means to set to music and illustrate the poem “Don’t leave the room” (1970) by the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was expatriated from the Soviet Union in 1972. This poetic warning against the threat of the outside world takes on prophetic significance after the current “Corona” experiences.
The Russian composer Marina Khorkova lives and works in Berlin. In her work “collision” extreme registers, fragile and brutal sound gestures, static and unmediated eventfulness collide with each other in numerous contrasting sound fields. It was premiered by the ensemble “ascolta” in Stuttgart in 2015.