SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

The concert by the SWR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sylvain Cambreling combines two main themes of this year’s MaerzMusik in one evening. The performance of Charles Ives’ spectacular and rarely performed 4th Symphony (1910-1916) will mark the starting point ‘Ives’ in the musical and aesthetic reflection on ‘Ives & Consequences’. The presentation of a new work by the French composer Tristan Murail points to a specific phase of French music. In the early 1970s, Murail developed a synthetic composition method in the context of the French variant of so-called spectral composing in order to penetrate the sound, the sound object itself, to model it directly and to transfer its microstructure into the larger form.

Ives’ and Murail’s work with and in sound, its expansion inwards and outwards and the resulting formation of new sound worlds are among the historical fields in which Georg Friedrich Haas operates and which he actualises in his musical language.