FRAGMENTS OF MEMORY / Exposition of New Music

JOHN CAGE Fourteen

CLARENCE BARLOW Concert pour piano et orchestre no. 2 – Aux fins des quelques siècles

JOHN OSWALD Oswald’s First Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky (as suggested by Michael Snow) Minus One in B^b minor

ZYGMUNT KRAUZE Piano Concerto No. 3 – Fragments of Memory

Jaroslav Šťastný piano

Daan Vandewalle piano

Zygmunt Krauze piano

Filharmonie Brno

Pavel Šnajdr conductor

The concluding concert of the festival will bring to the stage in their first Czech performances the unrepeatable recycling of Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto in B-flat minor by the pioneer of plunderphonics John Oswald and the bizarre Romanticism of Clarence Barlow’s concerto – both piano parts will be played by the Belgian Daan Vandewalle, with whose individual performance style the Brno audience is already acquainted – and Fragments of Memory by the legendary Polish avant-gardist, Zygmunt Krauze, who will perform the piano part himself. The concert will open with Cage’s Fourteen, whose presence on the programme strikes a musical reminiscence of a distant past, aiming “to sober and quiet the mind thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences”.

 

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