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World Premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s mar'eh at the Lucerne Festival

Sep. 01, 2011

World Premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s <em>mar'eh</em> at the Lucerne Festival

Commissioned by the Lucerne Festival and written for soloist Julia Fischer, Matthias Pintscher's new violin concerto mar'eh premiered on September 11, with Vladimir Jurowski leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Pintscher shares:

Mar'eh is a Hebrew word that means ‘face, sign.’ [It] can also mean the aura of a face, a beautiful vision, something wonderful which suddenly appears before you. I came across this word when I thought of the fine lines which Julia can spin with her instrument — this very intensive, but light play. The ‘wonderful appearance’ is a metaphor for the sound-aura of the entire concerto.

mar'eh continually materializes new sounds out of nothing, with the violin acting as protagonist. I have tried to shape the whole [work] in a very song-like fashion, so that the violin starts at the beginning and draws a line – or its vision – through to the end in the most varied registers, often quite high where it can only be continued in harmonics…[it is a] continual pacing-out of a line. As part of the transparent sonority, the orchestra answers in gesture what the violin evokes and then realizes its own tone-color melody.

Subsequent performances take place on September 24 in London, September 28 in Frankfurt and on October 1 in Luxembourg.

Learn more on the music of Matthias Pintscher at www.matthiaspintscher.com and www.bärenreiter.com.

Find out more about the Lucerne Festival by visiting: www.lucernefestival.ch/en.

Matthias Pintscher
mar’eh (2011)
for violin and orchestra
3(2.pic, 3.afl).2(2.ca).2(2.bcl).2(2.cbsn)-4.3.3.1-hp.pno-str
23’

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