Artists
Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher
Conductor
Salomé Haller
Mezzo-Soprano
Dimitri Vassilakis
Piano
Program
Alban Berg
Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 5
Gérard Grisey
Vortex temporum I-III
for Piano and five instruments
Pierre Boulez
Le Marteau sans maître for Alto and six instruments
Since its founding by Pierre Boulez more than 40 years ago, the Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain has been among the world’s leading formations for contemporary music. Following their debut in the opening season, the musicians now return to the Pierre Boulez Saal together with their artistic director, Matthias Pintscher. Salomé Haller is the soloist in Boulez’s Le Marteau sans maître, the work that established the 30-year-old composer’s international reputation. Compositions by Alban Berg and Gérard Grisey, like Boulez a student of Olivier Messiaen, complete the program.
The radio broadcast of this concert on Deutschlandfunk Kultur is scheduled for September 13, 2018 at 8.03 pm