Hersch + Ah Young Hong

With this concert, the Ensemble Phoenix Basel follows up on two programme focuses of the 21/22 season: On the one hand, they were able to win Michael Hersch, the composer of the successful music theatre production «Poppaea», for a new composition for soprano and ensemble, the solo part of which will be performed by the Korean soprano Ah Young Hong, who has already thrilled audiences with the title role in Hersch's opera. On the other hand, Hersch often refers to music from the Renaissance. The concert programme will be framed by an arrangement of a motet by Guillaume de Machaut. Also from the 14th century are the ballads by Jean Galiot and Jacob de Senleches from the stylistic epoch of the «ars subtilior», arranged by the Argentinian composer Erik Oña, who taught in Basel and died in 2019 after a serious illness. In his composition «After Serra», the American Jason Eckardt refers to the monumental sculptures of Richard Serra, whose «Intersection» has stood on Basel's Theaterplatz since 1992. The programme is complemented by a quiet, spherical work by the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

With

Ah Young Hong (soprano), Lucas Rössner («voice-fry» in «Le Sault Perilleux»), Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Jürg Henneberger (musical direction)

Program

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377): «Puis qu’en oubli» for soprano and string quartet (arr. Michael Hersch 2020); Jason Eckardt (*1971): «After Serra» for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2000); Anna Thorvaldsdottir (*1977): «Aequilibria» for ensemble (2014); Jean Galiot (14. Jh.) / Erik Oña (1961-2019): «Le Sault Perilleux (Ballade)» (2004); Jacob de Senleches (14. Jh.) / Erik Oña: «Je me merveil» (2004); Michael Hersch (*1971): «one step to the next, worlds ending» nach den Texten von Jan Zwicky (Auftrag EPB, 2022, UA); Guillaume de Machaut: «Puis qu’en oubli» for soprano and string quartet (arr. Hersch 2020)

Info

19:00 concert introduction with Jürg Henneberger

Duration

70 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.