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World Premiere of Matthias Pintscher's songs from Solomon’s garden on New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT! Series

Apr. 05, 2010

Baritone Thomas Hampson and musicians from the New York Philharmonic perform the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher's songs from Solomon's garden on the NY Philharmonic's new music series CONTACT!. The concert takes place on April 16 at New York City's Symphony Space and is conducted by Alan Gilbert. Pintscher's work premieres alongside new works by Nico Muhly and Sean Shepherd and audiences in New York have the opportunity to hear the program again on April 17.

This concert follows several recent performances of Pintscher's work in New York, including the New York premiere of Study IV for Treatise on the Veil at Merkin Concert Hall by the JACK Quartet and the US premiere of towards Osiris by the New York Philharmonic. Anthony Tommasini wrote about towards Osiris in The New York Times:

Just as Schoenberg used his Brahms orchestration as an opportunity to experiment freely with contemporary sonorities […], Mr. Pintscher saw the possibility of using intense dissonance and a freewheeling, virtuosic approach to orchestration as a way to get to the emotional heart of the Osiris story. […] Mr. Pintscher covers considerable ground in his alluringly amorphous woodwind writing, dazzlingly tactile percussion scoring and passages in which orchestral colors morph constantly.

David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote of the JACK Quartet's performance of Study IV for Treatise on the Veil (a work inspired by the series of Cy Twombly sketches):

Pintscher's canvas is a lighter gray than Twombly's, suggesting a snowstorm white-out at dusk with a few plaintive lights, fitful foreground activity, and objects, possibly real, probably hallucinatory, in the background - often seeming to pick up where Luigi Nono's late-period, boundary-pushing Fragmente-Stile left off... I want to hear the piece again. Just as Twombly's canvases require in-person inspection, so does this music. The JACK Quartet will simply have to be stalked.

For precise ticketing information on the concert, visit www.nyphil.org.

Learn more on the music of Matthias Pintscher by visiting www.matthiaspintscher.com and www.baerenreiter.com.

Matthias Pintscher
songs from Solomon’s garden (2010)
for baritone and chamber orchestra
1(pic).1.1.bcl.1(cbsn)-1.2.1.0-3perc.hp.pno-str
18'

towards Osiris (2005)
for orchestra
3.(2, 3.pic).2.ca.2.bcl(cbcl).2.cbsn-4.3.2.btbn.1-4perc-2hp.pno.cel-str
8’

Study IV for Treatise on the Veil (2009)
for string quartet
13’

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