May
31
Tuesday
Ben Smith: Images, Objects and Signs
Series: City Summer Sounds Music Festival
Pianist and recent graduate Ben Smith explores works in which musical sound is imagined or conceptualized as a quasi-image, object, or symbol. Including works by Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy and Jürg Frey, the programme traverses the extremes of pianistic expression and virtuosity.
Programme
Salvatore Sciarrino, Due notturni crudeli
1.Senza tempo e scandito
2. Furia, metallo
(2000)
Michael Finnissy, 'Midsummer Morn’, from English Country Tunes
(1977)
Evan Johnson, Three reversed movements to bring destroyed objects back to life
(2014)
Ben Smith, ..you burn me...
(2016)
Brian Ferneyhough, Lemma-Icon-Epigram
(1982)
Interval
Jürg Frey, Les tréfonds inexplorés des signes pour piano
(2007)