Artists
Antonello Manacorda
Conductor
Boulez Ensemble
Program
Claudio Monteverdi
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Arnold Schoenberg
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for String Quartet, Piano, and Sprechstimme Op. 41
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet in E-flat major K. 493
Luca Francesconi
Dia-ballein for Ensemble
Luca Francesconi
Sans for Ensemble
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.