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Performers
- Ekaterina Levental mezzo-soprano
- Vassilis Varvaresos piano
- Shannon Lee violin
- Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
- Tim Brackman violin
- Kira van der Woerd violin
- Elisa-Karen Tavenier viola
- Pieter de Koe cello
- Jelmer de Moed clarinet & live electronics
Programme
- Op stap in Parijs
- Erik SatieChansons — voor zang en piano
- George GershwinSongs uit musicals (1920s–30s) — voor zang en piano
- Maurice RavelVioolsonate nr. 2 in G-groot (1923–27) — voor viool en piano
- De nostalgie van de salon
- Ernest ChaussonConcert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, op. 21 (1889–91) — voor viool, piano en strijkkwartet
- Spookachtige schaduwen
- Maurice RavelGaspard de la nuit (1908) — voor piano solo
- Pierre BoulezDialogue de l’ombre double (1985) — voor klarinet en live-electronics
A study in shadow play
Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21 (1889–91) – for violin, piano and string quartet
Ghostly shadows
Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit (1908) – for solo piano
Pierre Boulez
Dialogue de l’ombre double (1985) – for clarinet and live electronics
Innovation and nostalgic exuberance
Ravel was a night owl. He loved wandering through Paris at night. He incorporated the sounds of cafés and cabarets into his music. This concert opens with songs by Satie and Gershwin, which Ravel would have encountered in the city’s nightlife. He also incorporated the jazz he heard into the middle section of his violin sonata, titled ‘Blues’. Parisian musical life was rich and varied.
Ravel was an innovator. While other composers remained faithful to the 19th century, a time when salons flourished and which Marcel Proust captured so masterfully in his novels, Ravel looked to the present. This exuberance can be heard in Ernest Chausson’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet. Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit is full of night visions and suspense, with the devilish dwarf Scarbo casting giant shadows on the wall. A study in shadow play is Ravel admirer Pierre Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double. Clarinettist Jelmer de Moed confronts his own shadow in this unparalleled solo piece featuring live electronics.