Sine nomine   STAUD (premiere), GUBAIDULINA, RIHM et.al.

When people speak of brass, fanfare music automatically comes to mind. But there is much more to it than that. While there are numerous compositions for small woodwind ensembles, music for brass in the 20th and 21st centuries is relatively limited, but it is nevertheless all the more diverse. A fascinating cosmos of sound will be created around the work commissioned from Johannes Maria Staud by the Easter Festival Tyrol and Windkraft. For starters, there will be Luciano Berio’s Call as a short musical ceremony, an invitation to listen, before the party begins. Sofia Gubaidulina’s Quattro challenges the conventional idea of what a brass fanfare should sound like. She ushers us into a vast unpredictable soundscape deriving from the fusion of simplicity and complexity. In Round And In Between, Hans Abrahamsen, one of the most prominent Nordic composers, generates tension between the “roundness” of long tones and the rhythmic “in-between”. A completely different approach is adopted by Bernhard Gander: In Messing 5 (Brass 5), he lends musical expression to copper and zinc as the elements of the alloy as well as the shaping and processing of the material through bending and hammering. In Brass Quintet, Benedict Mason plays with space, movement and timbre, going to extremes in the process. His In Nomine I, with its both meditative and dramatic atmosphere, will be performed in memory of the great Wolfgang Rihm, who passed away last year.

Windkraft – Kapelle für Neue Musik
Patrik Hofer, Bernhard Winkler – trumpets
Viktor Praxmarer – horn
Marks Waldhart – trombone
Maximilian Petz – trombone and contrabass trombone
Clemens Neuner – tuba

Programme:

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Call

Benedict Mason (*1954)
Brass Quintet

Johannes Maria Staud (*1974)
Jagende Wolken, blendendes Blau! (UA)

Sofia Gubaidulina (*1931)
Quattro

Hans Abrahamsen
Round And In Between

Wolfgang Rihm
Sine nomine I

Bernhard Gander
Messing 5