Ensemble intercontemporain

The Ensemble intercontemporain pays tribute to its founder Pierre Boulez, a year on from his death. The memory of the great French conductor and composer is entrusted to Sur Incises, composed on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Paul Sacher: a piece in two movements (“Moment I” and “Moment II”) with three pianos, three harps and three sets of percussion, in which the sonority of the various instruments come together in what Boulez himself defined as “organised delirium”.

Program

Claude Debussy
En blanc et noir, for two pianos

Béla Bartók
Sonata for two pianos and two percussions

Interval

Pierre Boulez
sur Incises, for three pianos, three harps  and three keyboard percussions

Artists

Direttore
Julien Leroy

Ensemble intercontemporain

Piano
Hidéki Nagano
Dimitri Vassilakis

Percussions
Samuel Favre
Victor Hanna