Thursday 18Apr24

Arte, commedia y poesía... Pierrot Lunaire

Concert for ensemble and countertenor
1 Shows
18 Apr 19:30 h.
Music/Ciclo de Cámara
 Auditorio de Tenerife (Chamber Hall)
 15 €

As part of its Chamber Cycle, the Auditorio de Tenerife is offering the concert Arte, commedia y poesía... Pierrot Lunaire (Art, commedia and poetry...Pierrot Lunaire) by the Ensemble Sonido Extremo and the countertenor Xavier Sabata. The Cabildo de Gran Canaria - Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria has collaborated in this show.

 

Humour and poetry are the two essential pillars of this programme. The poems of Pessoa and Giraud, along with humour, structure the works that form it and are its starting point. Since music manages to weave together disciplines, we can see attitudes from creators that hint at comedy. There is the emergence of joking, parody, sarcasm, strokes of wit or in its higher state, irony; music in dialogue with theatre, with poetry, with gestures or even with music itself.


In Ars Memoriae, Mikel Urquiza uses timbre, instrumental artifice and the dialogue with other music to create a fun and heterogeneous piece in several movements, which symbolically place us in the different rooms of a Roman house, a domus. In Tão Longe de mim, José Río-Pareja adds music to four peculiar poems by Fernando Pessoa thus creating a work that is also peculiar. A dialogue in which, both voice and instruments, visit the provocative style of the ironical and irreverent Pessoa from a beautiful perspective. And, lastly, we will listen to the work whose complete name is Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire, more commonly known as Pierrot Lunaire. The cycle of small melodramas made from 21 of the poems of Giraud to create a work with which Arnold Schöenberg shook some of the paradigms of musical composition, in the Berlin of 1912. The language of Pierrot Lunaire floats in a groundbreaking space, a universe without gravity. Each movement forges a small cosmos where text and music coexist in an extraordinary symbiosis. A fresh, mysterious work, and listening to it remains revelatory to explain what happened to music in the last century.

Jordi Francés, conductor

Xavier Sabata, countertenor

 

Ensemble Sonido Extremo 

Jesús Gómez, flute
Alfonso Pineda, clarinet
Javier González, saxophone
Cecilia Bercovich, violin/viola
Iván Siso, violoncello
Beatriz González, piano
Reyes Gómez, harp

Mikel Urquiza (*1988)
Ars Memoriae 

Fauces I
Impluvium
Nymphaeum
Cuculus
Spinario
Fauces II

José Río-Pareja (*1973)
Tão longe de mim (So far away from me) (Four songs about poems by Fernando Pessoa)
Pouco me importa (I don't care)
Última estrela a desaparecer antes do dia (Last Star to disappear before Daylight)
Leve (Lightweight)
Pastor do monte (Shepherd of the Hill)

-Intermission- 

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (Three times seven poems of Pierrot Lunaire by Albert Giraud)

I. Mondestrunken (Moondrunk)
II. Colombine
III. Der Dandy (The Dandy)
IV. Eine blasse Wäscherin (A Pale Washerwoman)
V. Valse de Chopin
VI. Madonna
VII. Der kranke Mond (
The Sick Moon)
VIII. Nacht.
(Passacaglia) (Night. Passacaglia)
IX. Gebet an Pierrot (Prayer to Pierrot)
X. Raub (Robbery)
XI. Rote Messe (Red Mass)
XII. Galgenlied (Gallows Song)
XIII. Enthauptung (Beheading)
XIV. Die Kreuze (
The Crosses)
XV. Heimweh (
Homesickness)
XVI. Gemeinheit! (
Meanness!)
XVII. Parodie (
Parody)
XVIII. Der Mondfleck (
The Moonspot)
XIX. Serenade
XX. Heimfahrt.
Barcarole (Journey Home)
XXI. O alter Duft (O Old Fragrance)

Access is only allowed to children over five years of age.

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Thu 18Apr24
Time
19:30