König Ubu in Ketten

«Ubu enchaîné» (Ubu in Chains), a pataphysical play by the French symbolist Albert Jarry, leads us through the programme with its five acts. Many of the short pieces, partly aleatoric, partly improvised, partly music-theatrical in nature, become a kind of fragmentary theatre music and the musicians themselves become semi-staged characters.

With

Guests: Hans Feigenwinter (piano), Salomé Im Hof (acting/directing), Anne-May Krüger (mezzo-soprano); Camerata Variabile: Sascha Armbruster (saxophone), Matthias Arter (oboe), Karin Dornbusch (clarinet), Rui Lopes (bassoon), Helena Winkelmnann (violin/basic musical concept), Christoph Dangel (cello), N.N. (percussion); collaboration with the composition class of the Bern University of Music

Program

Minirecitatives of the composition class (HKB). World premiere for soprano and/or narrator, percussion, oboe, saxophone, violin, cello

Hans Feigenwinter (*1965): Improvisations

Xavier Dayer (*1972): «Dans un lointain sommeil» for mezzo-soprano, alto saxophone and percussion

John Cage (*1912): «Songbooks» (2012)

«Dos à dos» for clarinet and soprano saxophone

Info

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Duration

120 minutes, with break

Links

→ camerata-variabile.ch