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Ensemble Contrechamps | Stefan Asbury conductor | Isabelle Faust violin sax: Vincent Daoud
Michael Jarrell (*1958) “Music for a While” for ensemble (1994/95) New composition for violin and ensemble (2009) | Commissioned by Ensemble Contrechamps and LUCERNE FESTIVAL | Territorial première
Kaija Saariaho (*1952) "Nymphéa" for string quartet and electronics (1987) “Lichtbogen” for ensemble and electronics (1986)
Music about music: Michael Jarrell's ensemble piece Music for a While draws on the musical drama Oedipus by Henry Purcell. He refers to the "idea of transience" as its underlying thought: "I wanted to try to write music of the moment that constantly reinvents itself." Music about art: Kaija Saariaho, this year’s composer-in-residence, drew inspiration from Claude Monet's famous paintings of water lilies for her string quartet Nymphéa, adding further sounds with electronic manipulation. The guiding idea behind her Lichtbogen ("Arc of Light") is a spellbinding natural wonder: the aurora borealis, which she translates into glistening, evanescent, gleaming timbres before it fades into nothingness at the end.