Tristan Murail - Winter Fragments (2000) // Robert Schumann Hochschule Aufführung // Laura Brannath

Ensemble der Robert Schumann Hochschule Tristan Murail - Winter Fragments (2000) für Ensemble mit Elektronik “As a rule I don’t like naming a piece before I’ve finished writing it, like counting your chickens before they’re hatched. The completed piece may well differ considerably from the initial project, which is a concept, ideas, sounds and images, while the finished product is sound, organised within time. There’s a gulf between the two. So this title has to be taken for what it’s worth. It is at one and the same time an acknowledgement of the festival where the piece is to be created (“Sounds of winter and today“), and the experience of a genuine winter last year, particularly where we now live, to the north of New York, a region of lakes and small mountains. The lake in front of our house was frozen over, and there were sixty centimetres of snow all round. For the most part the sun shone brightly and its intense light bathed the house, which is open to nature all round. Sometimes a violent storm would arise, followed by silence, and the blinding light would come back. Perhaps the “fragments of winter“ are there.“ (Tristan Murail) Flöte - Anna Basharina Klarinette - Joonwoong Park Violine - Lukas Döhler Cello - Matthias Balzat Klavier - Maria Keller Keyboard - Dmitrii Shchuikin Leitung - Laura Brannath Tonregie - Sascha Etezazi Düsseldorf,