Artists
Antonello Manacorda
Conductor
Robin Johannsen
Soprano
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani
Tenor
Jeeyoung Lim
Bass-Baritone
Paul McNamara
Narrator
Program
Claudio Monteverdi
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Luca Francesconi
Sans for Ensemble
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet in E-flat major K. 493
Arnold Schoenberg
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for String Quartet, Piano, and Sprechstimme Op. 41
Toward the end of the season, the Boulez Ensemble once more explores a range of repertoire, from the 17th century to the present. Led by Antonello Manacorda for the first time, the musicians take on Monteverdi’s dramatic madrigal Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, a musical plea against tyranny, written in 1942–43 in the composer’s American exile on a text by Lord Byron. The program concludes with two ensemble pieces by Luca Francesconi, whose works were heard in several concerts over the preceding months.
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