Manitoba Music
Beyond: New Music Festival - Richter Silvestrov
- Date
- Friday, Jan 31, 2014
- Performers
- Gwen Hoebig
Mennonite Festival Chorus;
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra - Location
- Centennial Concert Hall
- Address
- 555 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Promoters
- WSO New Music Festival
About
Artists:
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra;
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Gwen Hoebig, violin
Mennonite Festival Chorus;
Rudy Schellenberg & Janet Brenneman, co-directors
Repertoire:
Max Richter (UK): Four Seasons Recomposed (Canadian Premiere)
Valentin Silvestrov (UA): Requiem for Larissa (Canadian Premiere)
Max Richter re-imagines the past. In Four Seasons Recomposed Richter rewrites Vivaldi’s iconic work The Four Seasons. “At every point I had to work out how much is Vivaldi and how much is me. It was difficult but also rewarding because the raw material is so fascinating.” Voted #1 in iTunes Best of Classical in 2012.
Valentin Silvestrov imagines the afterlife. His Requiem for Larissa was written in memory of his late wife. Silvestrov felt when writing his “Requiem for Larissa” that it would be his last composition. Every melody sounds like the reverberation of something that has already gone. Every feature of style speaks of things long over. “I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists.”
