Luciano Berio: Folk Songs (1964) - Anna Molnár, UMZE Ensemble

HOMMAGE À LUCIANO BERIO | CLOSING CONCERT OF INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTOR MASTERCLASS OF PETER EÖTVÖS FOUNDATION (excerpt)

Budapest Music Center
30 November 2019

Anna Molnár – mezzo-soprano

UMZE Ensemble:
Éva Osztrosits – viola
Tamás Zétényi – violoncello
Lívia Duleba – flute
Péter Szűcs – clarinet
Tímea Papp – harp
János Nevelő – percussion
Tamás Schlanger – percussion

Conductors:
Jacob Niemann (1-3)
Agata Zając (4-6)
Leonard Evers (7-8)
Rémi Durupt (9-11)

Songs:
1. Black is the color... (United States)
2. I wonder as I wander (United States)
3. Loosin yelav (Armenia)
4. Rossignolet du bois (France)
5. A la femminisca (Sicily)
6. La donna ideale (Italy)
7. Ballo (Italy)
8. Motettu de tristura (Sardinia)
9. Malurous qu’o uno fenno (Auvergne)
10. Lo fiolaire (Auvergne)
11. Azerbaijan love song (Azerbaijan)

"I have always sensed a profound uneasiness while listening to popular songs performed with piano accompaniment. This is one of the reasons why, in 1964, I wrote Folk Songs - a tribute to the artistry and the vocal intelligence of Cathy Berberian. This work exists in two versions: one for voice and seven players (flute/piccolo, clarinet, two percussions, harp, viola, cello), the other for voice and chamber orchestra (1973).
It is an anthology of eleven folk songs of various origins (United States, Armenia, France, Sicily, Sardinia, etc.), chosen from old records, printed anthologies, or heard sung from folk musicians and friends. I have given the songs a new rhythmic and harmonic interpretation: in a way, I have recomposed them. The instrumental part has an important function: it is meant to underline and comment on the expressive and cultural roots of each song. Such roots signify not only the ethnic origins of the songs but also the history of the authentic uses that have been made of them.
Two of the eleven songs (“La donna ideale” and “Ballo”) are only intentionally popular: I composed them myself in 1947 to anonymous Genoese and Sicilian texts."
/Luciano Berio/

This concert will close the Peter Eötvös Foundation’s 2019 mentoring year with new pieces and young conductors from all over the world and it could give a nice idea about the whole mentoring year’s work. Guest professor, Hanspeter Kyburz will oversee the rehearsals of his own piece, Réseaux which will be performed for the first time in Budapest. Before the concert a one week intense conducting masterclass will take place at Budapest Music Center led by professors Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda. The whole concert will be live streamed via the Youtube-channel of the foundation.

Sponsors: BMC, NRW Kunstiftung, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, Goehte Institut, NKA

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