Cendres

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Roland Schueler, cello
Alexandra Dienz, double bass

Seven years after our last performance there, PHACE is back in beautiful Olomouc this autumn, at this year’s MUSICOLOMOUC16. The program once again includes a wide range of contemporary chamber music, where fascinating sound ideas branch out in all directions. Chamber Nôise by Ondřej Adámek plays with the gestures of Japanese Noh theater and constructs a captivating sound world of slow motion movements and precision. In Cendres by Kaija Saariaho, the instruments drift between extreme closeness – in pitch, rhythm, articulation or timbre – and the greatest possible distance and individuality. In Sighs, Allesandro Milia concentrates on breathing and the changed emotional states that accompany it. The piece is less a musical breathing exercise, but rather transfers the cyclical nature and temporal flexibility of breathing into musical forms. A physical phenomenon serves as inspiration for Otto Wanke in streams…contacs. As with the diffraction or bending of light, the sounds break at corners and edges, interfere with each other and thereby change their energy. Sarah Nemtsov’s Sechs Zeichen on the other hand, deals with polar musical phenomena that interlock, cancel each other out or change their states of aggregation. This is accompanied by a new work by Slavomir Hořínka for tenor saxophone, cello, double bass and piano, whose premiere we are eagerly awaiting.

PROGRAM

Ondřej Adámek
Chamber Nôise für Cello und Kontrabass, 2010

Sarah Nemtsov
Sechs Zeichen für Cello und (präpariertes) Klavier, 2010

Slavomír Hořínka
Neues Werk für Tenorsaxophon, Cello, Kontrabass und Klavier, UA, 2024

Alessandro Milia
Sighs für Altflöte, Sopransaxophon und Klavier, 2016

Otto Wanke
streams-contacts für Bassflöte und Klavier, 2020

Kaija Saariaho
Cendres für Altflöte, Cello und Klavier, 1998