Spiegel Spiele – Mirror Games

What could be more similar to a string quartet than a vocal quartet? And yet even within the ensembles, the personalities, characteristics and individualities are clearly differentiated. The group dynamics, the coherence of the timbres and the play of reflections, in which the different elements recognise each other, diverge and meet, are aspects of the almost daily work of the SoloVoices and Quartetto Maurice ensembles.

«Spiegel Spiele» invites the composer Justė Janulytė and the composer Bernhard Lang to work on different scales: large eight-part ensemble, double quartet, quartet, trio and duo. In her work «Nodo infinito», Justė Janulytė develops a body of sound in which the two quartets blend so tightly that it gradually becomes impossible to distinguish the human voices from the strings. Bernhard Lang, for his part, builds up a complex and extensive dramaturgy. He experiments with various combinations from duo to double quartet in a world influenced by the philosophers and alchemists of the Renaissance. Inspired by the «Tabula Smaragdina», his work unfolds like a magic formula.

Production: Associazione Metamorfosi Notturne - Festival Musica in Prossimità (Italy), Festival Rainy Days (Luxembourg), Associazione Musica Antiquanova - Festival Distat Terra (Argentina) and SoloVoices (Switzerland)

With

SoloVoices: Svea Schildknecht (soprano), Francisca Näf (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Jacques Knutti (tenor), Jean-Christophe Groffe (bass); Quartetto Maurice: Georgia Privitera (violin), Laura Bertolino (violin), Francesco Vernero (viola), Aline Privitera (violoncello)

Program

Justė Janulytė (*1982): «Nodo Infinito» (2024, CH WP)

Bernhard Lang (*1957): «GAME 15, Mirror Game» (2024, CH WP)

Duration

90 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

→ solovoices.ch
→ quartettomaurice.com