Programme

Iris Szeghy (*1956)
Offertorium for soprano and orchestra based on a poem by Emily Dickinson
world premiere

Beat Furrer (*1954)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Swiss premiere

Miroslav Srnka (*1975)
move 01-04 for orchester
first integral performance of all existing parts of the ongoing series (first performance of the revised versions of move 01-03)

Bamberg Symphony
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Juliane Banse, soprano
Ilya Gringolts, violin

What’s new in music being written today? Find out at this räsonanz – Donor Concert, which brings you up-to-date orchestral music. Iris Szeghy presents her recent Offertorium, which features an expressive solo soprano singing verses by Emily Dickinson. Beat Furrer has taken advantage of the coronavirus downtime to compose a fiendishly difficult violin concerto for Ilya Gringolts. A “20-minute eruption,” wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the Munich premiere last October. “Furrer strings together tapestries of sound made of dark whispers spiced with harried solo writing, harsh contrasts, and rapid virtuoso runs that arrive like a breeze. Everything is effective, stirring, complex.” Finally, in a series of orchestral pieces written between 2015 and 2020, Miroslav Srnka traces not just musical movements but what sets them in motion: the physical movements of the musicians. For the first complete performance, he has again revised move 1-4.