Boulez at 100
19:30
Thu 6 Mar 2025
大象传媒 Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
Programme
- Livres pour cordes
- Violin Concerto
- Memoriale
- Les offrandes oubli茅es
- Tristan and Isolde 鈥� Prelude and Liebestod
Performers
- Daniel Cohenconductor
- Ava Bahariviolin
- Matthew Featherstoneflute
CONTEMPORARY | INFLUENTIAL | ENLIGHTENING
In celebration of the 100th birthday of Pierre Boulez, conductor Daniel Cohen joins 大象传媒 NOW for an evening of 20th Century gems, kicking off with Boulez鈥檚 own Livres pour cordes. Unsurpassable beauty and depth run deep in this angular and fragmentary work, which is nothing but lyrical throughout.
Ava Bahari makes her debut with 大象传媒 NOW in Berg鈥檚 best-known and most performed work, his powerful Violin Concerto, before 大象传媒 NOW鈥檚 Principal Flute, Matthew Featherstone, steps into the spotlight for Boulez鈥檚 Memoriale, a dynamic masterstroke of extended flute technique. His former teacher, and inspiring influence, Olivier Messiaen is up next as we explore his reverential Les Offrandes oubli茅e and we delve into the turbulence of forbidden love in Wagner鈥檚 musical embodiment of drama, Tristan und Isolde.