Betwixt and Between

Followers of the witchcraft arts use the term «Betwixt and Between» to describe those fissures that, upon closer inspection, open up in reality.

In the «Lost in Translation» season the Camerata Variabile enters a space between everyday reality and another reality. The works performed that evening revolve around a fascination with spirit worlds, conjuration and the supernatural.

Menotti was the first to bring a spiritualist séance to the operatic stage; in «Incantation», Zinsstag explores the art of conjuration; Winkelman attempts musical channelling of significant composers of bygone eras; and Jolivet sought to restore music’s original connection to magic and ritual. Schumann, too, engaged intensively with the supernatural and was a passionate glass-moving medium, much to the disappointment of his wife Clara. His «Fantasiestücke» form one of the central works of the evening and with their narrative character fit seamlessly into a programme in which stories play an important role. This musical journey into the in-between is complemented by texts by Franz Hohler. Like few others, the Swiss author writes of the cracks in familiar reality and of those moments when the everyday suddenly tips over into the unreal.

With

Guest: Meret Matter (narrator)
Isabelle Schnöller (flute); Karin Dornbusch (clarinet); Helena Winkelman (violin); Christoph Dangel (cello); Stefka Perifanova (piano)

Program

André Jolivet (1905–1974): Sonatina (1961) for flute and clarinet
Helena Winkelman (*1974): From «12 Visitations» (2020) for piano trio
«Der Geisterfahrer» (short story)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Phantasiestücke (1842)
Gérard Zinsstag (*1941): «Incantation» (2017) for solo flute
«The Hitchhiker» (short story)
Charles Koechlin (1867–1950): Pastorale, Op. 75bis (1917–1918) for flute, clarinet and piano (Allegretto, très modéré)
Giancarlo Menotti (1911–2007): Trio (1996) for clarinet, violin and piano

Duration

120 minutes, with break

Prices

Standard CHF 45.-
Kulturlegi CHF 15.-
Staff cards CHF 10.-
Students and pupils CHF 0.- in advance, CHF 5.- on the door.

Links

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