Tzlil Meudcan 2023: (Darker Than Black) שחור משחור | July 03 – 06
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Program Lineup
Monday, July 3rd – Studio Annette
| 20:00 Neue Vocalsolisten (Germany)
Johanna Vargas (soprano), Susanne Leitz-Lorey (soprano), Truike van der Poel (mezzo soprano), Martin Nagy (tenor); Guillermo Anzorena (baritone), Andreas Fischer (bass)
Georges Aperghis passwords for 6 voices (2016)
Batya Frenklakh Das Gold Ist for 5 voices (2019)
Carola Bauckholt Witten vacuum for 2 female voices with vacuum cleaners (2019-20)
Jennifer Walshe soft menagerie for 6 voices (2011)
Carola Bauckholt Stroh for 4 voices (2012-13)
| 21:30 Michele Marelli (Italy) Clarinet Recital
Marco Stroppa Il peso di un respiro for solo clarinet (2015-17)
Christopher Fox Headlong for solo clarinet (2007-09)
Mark Andre iv 3 for solo clarinet (2006-07)
Elena Rykova NB for solo clarinet (2011)
Luca Francesconi Tracce for solo clarinet (1985-87)
| 23:00 Late Night Concert at Salon Shoken | Hagai Izenberg (Israel)
Hagai Izenberg con.text for live electronics and recorded text (2023) world premiere
Tuesday, July 4th – Studio Annette
| 20:00 Darker Than Black (Austria)
Tom Pauwels (guitarist), Eva Reiter (viola da gamba) & Lore Binon (voice)
Jürg Frey Abendlied, from 50 Sächelchen for guitar (1989)
John Dowland Mourne, Mourne, Day is with Darkness fled (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)
for voice, gamba, guitar (1600)
What if A Day (The Dowland Lute Book) for guitar (1610)
Arthur Lavandier Prélude for gamba and electric guitar (2019)
My Naked Lady framed for soprano and gamba (2013)
Tobias Hume What greater Grief (Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke) for voice and gamba (1607)
Loves Farewell (Musicall Humors) for solo gamba (1605)
Wolfgang Mitterer Mourn, Mourn for soprano, gamba and guitar (2013)
Jürg Frey Cadillac from 50 Sächelchen for guitar (1989)
Bernhard Gander Darkness awaits us for soprano and gamba (2013)
Thomas Campion All looks be pale (The First Book of Ayres) for soprano, gamba and lute (1613)
Eva Reiter My iron-spurred Lady for performer and guitar (2018)
John Dowland Time stands still (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires)
for soprano, gamba, guitar (1603)
Stephen Goodall [Untitled] (The Manchester Lyra-Viol Manuscript) for gamba (1650)
Eva Reiter Such dimmest light as never for soprano and gamba (2022)
Francesco Filidei … And here they do not for soprano and gamba (2014)
Jürg Frey No. 32 from 50 Sächelchen for guitar (1989)
Burkhard Stangl Nights for soprano, gamba and guitar (2009)
With you for soprano, gamba and guitar (2009)
| 21:30 Trio – Pietro Barcellona, Marcus Weiss, and Sarah Maria Sun (Switzerland)
Sarah Maria Sun (soprano), Marcus Weiss (saxophone), Pietro Barcellona (double bass)
Beat Furrer in mia vita da vuolp for soprano & saxophone (2019)
Batya Frenklakh Clouds of White for saxophone and double bass (2023) [world premiere]
Klaus Lang cantica christinae. III – a summer wish for soprano, saxophone and double bass (2020)
Nadir Vassena luce migrante. quasi un madrigale auf ein Gedicht von Fabio Pusterla for voice, saxophone
and double bass (2021)
| 23:00, Late Night Concert at Salon Shoken | Schidlowsky Portrait
Leon Schidlowsky Partita for solo clarinet (2004)
Leon Schidlowsky Am Grab Kafka’s for solo voice (1994)
Leon Schidlowsky Partita for solo cello (2005)
Wednesday, July 5th – Hateiva
| 20:00 Ensemble Zone Expérimentale (Switzerland)
Alexandre Silva (percussion), Mikolaj Rytowsky (percussion), Dmitry Batalov (piano), Jacob Mason (piano), James Morely (cello), Martijn Susla (clarinet), Maria Guillén (violin)
Inbar Sharet 10:00 (Reframing of John Cage’s Two2) for 2 pianos, 2 percussion (2022/23)
Marco Stropa Ossia, Seven Strophes for Literary Drone for violin, cello and piano (2005/13)
Carola Baukholt Oh I see for clarinet, cello, piano, balloons and video (2015/16)
| 21:30 Tel Aviv Saxophone Quartet (Israel)
Maayan James (soprano saxophone), Ziv Slama (alto saxophone), Gan Lev (tenor saxophone), Yanir Ritter (baritone saxophone)
Franco Donatoni Rasch for saxophone quartet (1990)
Karin Wetzel Seiltanz for saxophone quartet (2018)
Tom Belkind Metal heart, he took his last breath for saxophone quartet (2023) [world premiere]
Alberto Posadas Anábasis for tenor saxophone (2001)
Gal Dori L’appelle du vide for saxophone quartet (2014)
| 23:00, Late Night Concert at Salon Shoken | Alex Paxton (England)
Free improvisation for solo trombone
Thursday, July 6th – Studio Annette
| 20:00 Sarah Maria Sun (Germany) Voice Recital
György Kurtág Kafka-Fragmente for voice and violin (1985-87)
Helmut Lachenmann Got Lost with piano 2007/08)
Georges Aperghis Le rire physiologique with piano (1983)
– intermission –
György Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre for Coloratura Soprano and piano (2007)
| 21:30 Ilan Volkov (Israel), Alex Paxton (England), Ensemble Zone Expérimentale (Switzerland)
Conducted by: Ilan Volkov
Alexandre Silva (percussion), Mikolaj Rytowsky (percussion), Dmitry Batalov (piano), Jacob Mason (piano), James Morely (cello), Martijn Susla (clarinet), Maria Guillén (violin), Alex Paxton (trombone)
Luc Ferarri Et tournent les sons dans la garrigue (1977)
Christine Burke Fat sunset (2018)
| 23:00 Oded Geizhals
Leon Schidlowsky Sonora (1970)
Udi Perlman In a constant state of Limbo (Hommage à Simon Pfeffel) (2018)
Goni Peles solo for bongos (2011)
Georges Aperghis le corps a corps (1978)
Participating Artists & Composers
Darker Than Black Trio (Ictus)
Hagai Izenberg (Radio Concrete)
Link to Festival Program Booklet Festival Lineup
photos by Goni Riskin