Schattenfarbe

With «Schattenfarbe», the Mondrian Ensemble presents a programme that is intense in its energy but nuanced and structured in its spatiality and musicality.
The Austrian composer Wolfram Schurig will compose a new piano quartet for the Mondrian Ensemble that - in contrast to the majority of his recent works - dispenses with any extra-musical reference: autonomous music in the radical sense.

The composer writes about his new work: «Here there are pitches, intervals, durations, rhythms, timbres, as well as control processes - or let's call them rules in simplified terms - that relate the musical elements to each other and bring them into flow. The aim is the autonomy of the musical work of art as a living being that is capable of establishing communication with its counterpart by its own power. The composer is part of - not the creator of - this living system.»

With

Ivana Pristašová Zaugg (violin), Petra Ackermann (viola), Karolina Öhman (cello), Benjamin Engeli (piano/guest).

Program

Roland Moser (*1943): String Trio (2016)
Clara Iannotta (*1983): «Limun» (2011) for violin, viola and 2 page turners
Felix Nussbaumer (*2000): «Between regions of partial shadow and complete illumination» (2022) for piano quartet
Kelly-Marie Murphy (*1964): «Give me Phoenix Wings to Fly» (1997) for violin, violoncello and piano
Wolfram Schurig (*1967): Quartet (2023, premiere)

Duration

75 minutes, with break

Prices

CHF 35.-/25.-/15.- (free choice at the box office or in advance)
Free admission applies to persons with residence permit N, F or S. / CHF 5.- students of the Hochschule für Musik FHNW and the Musicology Seminar of the University of Basel / CHF 10.- members Colourkey and children under 12 years.

Links

→ mondrianensemble.ch