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Matthias Pintscher Conducts World Premiere of Bereshit with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

May. 03, 2013

Matthias Pintscher Conducts World Premiere of <em>Bereshit</em> with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

“As from nothing, something created, something natural comes into existence.” This is the theme that informs Matthias Pintscher’s newest work Bereshit, which premieres with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra on May 24. Bereshit, Hebrew for “in beginning,” is a reflection on the act of creation, a beginning, a turning point, the process of perception and our development of awareness. Pintscher writes:

... as if you woke up in the pitch darkness of night in a strange room and only realized after a few seconds where you were. In this state you attempt to make out the shapes of the space. It is a beginning from absolute darkness and shapelessness. Quite cautiously and gradually particles free themselves, then condense and fit together in shapes. 

Bereshit emerges from an initial sound as if from an absolute nothing, from a sound which subsides into percussive noises, from which elements then disentangle themselves and condense. It is a very organic piece, the material is treated quasi chronologically, it develops slowly. The composition emerges from the idea of freeing an entire compendium of sounds, gestures, rhythms and orchestrations from an original state of sound. There is a central note, an F, which opens the piece and stretches through the piece like a horizon.

Matthias Pintscher conducts The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere performances of Bereshit on May 24 and 25, 2013 at the Ordway Center in Saint Paul.

Visit www.thespco.org for concert details.

Learn more on Matthias Pintscher and his music at www.matthiaspintscher.com and www.baerenreiter.com.

Matthias Pintscher
Bereshit (2013)
for chamber orchestra
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ca. 30'

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