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World Premiere of Johannes Maria Staud's K'in at Klangspuren Festival 2013

Sep. 06, 2013

World Premiere of Johannes Maria Staud's <em>K'in</em> at Klangspuren Festival 2013

Set in the picturesque landscape of the Tyrolean mountain villages, Klangspuren Festival celebrates its 20th year this September with a host of Europe’s most intrepid composers. Works in the festival will orbit the theme of “New Music and the Romantic Legacy” with concerts in exotic and unexpected locations including open air venues, chapels, a livestock auction house, and living rooms.

Among a series of exciting highlights, September 19 marks the world premiere of K'in, a new piece commissioned by Klangspuren for bassoon and string quartet by Austrian-born composer Johannes Maria Staud. Named after the Mayan word for "sun", the composer describes K'in as a "thoroughly ritualistic piece" that "gradually takes on the character of an evocation, phrase by phrase." The Hugo Wolf Quartett will bring this work to life with bassoonist Pascal Gallois, along with Staud’s colorful and complex bassoon solo Celluloid. The concert also includes a performance of Friedrich Cerha’s String Quartet No. 4, which was premiered by the Hugo Wolf Quartett in 2002. On September 14, musicians of the Klangspuren Internationale Ensemble Modern Academy will perform Staud’s Configurations/Reflet along with Heinz Holliger’s Eisblumen, Jörg Widmann’s …umdüstert…, and György Ligeti’s Melodien, conducted by Kasper de Roo.

This year’s festival will also feature a wealth of large-scale ensemble and orchestral pieces including Cerha’s Paraphrase über den Anfang der 9. Symphonie von Beethoven, Wolfgang Rihm’s Chiffre II, Dieter Schnebel’s Schubert-Phantasie, Aribert Reimann’s Sieben Fragmente für Orchester, and Beat Furrer’s FAMA. 

To learn more about Johannes Maria Staud, please visit www.universaledition.com    

Visit www.klangspuren.at for more information on Klangspuren 2013

Johannes Maria Staud
K’in (2012-2013)
for bassoon and string quartet
12’

Celluloid (2011)
for solo bassoon
10’

Configurations/Reflet (2002)
for eight instrumentalists
0.1(ca).1(bcl, hi-hat).1-0.0.1(bass drum).0-str(1.1(bass drum).1(hi-hat).1.0)
11’

Friedrich Cerha
Paraphrase über den Anfang der 9. Symphonie von Beethoven (2010)
for orchestra
3.2.2.3-4.2.3.0-timp.3perc-str
14’
 
String Quartet No. 4 (2001)
19’

Heinz Holliger
Eisblumen (1985, rev. 2006)
for seven strings and small mixed choir
str(1.1.2.2.1)
6’

Jörg Widmann
…umdüstert… (1999-2000)
for chamber ensemble
bcl-perc-pno-str(1.0.1.1.1)
18’

György Ligeti
Melodien (1971)
for orchestra
1(pic).1(obd’am).1.1-2.1.1.1-timp.perc-pno(cel)-str(8.6.6.4.3) + possible solo string ensemble (1.1.1.1.1)
13’

Wolfgang Rihm
Chiffre II “Silence to be beaten” (1983)
for 14 players
1.1.1.1-1.1.1.0-1/2perc-pno-str(1.1.1.1.1)
14’

Dieter Schnebel
Schubert-Phantasie (1978, rev. 1989)
for divided large orchestra
Orch. I: 3(1., 2. pic).3(3.ca).3(1. Ebcl, 3. bcl).2.cbsn-4(2., 4. Wagnertba).3.3(1.ttbn, 2.btbn).1-timp.perc-hp-str(2(4).2(4).2(4).2.2)
Orch II: str(9.8.8.4.2)
25’

Aribert Reimann
Sieben Fragmente für Orchester (1988)
for orchestra
pic.1.afl.1.ca.Ebcl.1.bcl.2.cbsn-4.4.2.1-hp-str(12.10.8.8.6)
14’

Beat Furrer
FAMA (2005)
for large ensemble, eight voices and actress
2(1.bfl, kbfl, pic-2.pic).1.2(bcl).tsax.1(cbsn)-0.2.2.0-2perc-pno.acc-str(2vn.2va.2vc.db)
50’

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