How does it feel?

Robin Minard
On and Between
(création, commande Philharmonie)

The Canadian sound artist Robin Minard transforms the signature pillars of Philharmonie Luxembourg into a sound installation. With 100 small speakers, he creates within the foyer an intimate space of delicate sounds that make the architecture of the Philharmonie audible while simultaneously reinventing it.

Free admission

Wojtek Blecharz direction musicale
Karol Tymiński chorégraphie, danse
Beltane Ruiz Molina contrebasse
Alexandre Babel percussion
Barbara Kinga Majewska, Bonnie Lander, Jennifer ­Torrence, Wojtek Blecharz voix enregistrée
Wiebke Renner technique Resonance
Ewa-Maria Śmigielska décors, costumes, VJ
Michał Głaszczka lumières
Mateusz Andracki accessoires
Łukasz Faliński vidéo
Antoni Mantorski son

Wojtek Blecharz
Body-Opera

Coopération Philharmonie Luxembourg et Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Production Nowy Teatr
Coproduction Adam Mickiewicz Institute et hcmf//
Partenaire Ciało/Umysł Foundation
The recording of Techno by Wojtek Blecharz is from the show Soundwork as courtesy of TR Warszawa
The scent for Candy Aria was composed and founded by Victor Kochetov form Mood Scent Bar

Traditional performance settings limit our perception by offering only one model of musical experience: sitting, listening, and watching. Wojtek Blecharz’s Body-Opera is dedicated to the audience to experience sound with their entire bodies. The musical theatre work, consisting of music, installation, choreography, sculpture, and video, places the audience in a new performance situation where the participants can directly experience the physical nature of music while lying down, standing, or moving.

Tickets (en vente): 20 € – Luxembourgticket.lu (+352) 47 08 95-1

EXAUDI
James Weeks direction
Juliet Fraser soprano
Rebecca Lea soprano
Lucy Goddard mezzo-soprano
Tom Williams contreténor
Stephen Jeffes ténor
David de Winter ténor
Simon Whiteley basse
Jimmy Holliday basse

Luca Marenzio
«Spuntavan gia»
«Scendi dal Paradiso»
Stefano Gervasoni
Di dolci aspre catene
Giaches de Wert: «Vezzosi augelli»
Claudio Monteverdi
«Ecco mormorar l'onde»
Luca Marenzio
«Quel augellin che canta»
Claudio Monteverdi
«Quel augellin che canta»
Salvatore Sciarrino
12 Madrigali per 8 (o 7) cantanti (extraits):
«Ecco mormorar l’onde»
«La cicala»
«O lodola»
«Rosso, così rosso»
Catherine Kontz
Il Floridoro – Canto 4 (création, commande Philharmonie)
Carlo Gesualdo
«Se la mia morte brami»
«O dolorosa gioa»
«Ardita zanzaretta»
Michael Finnissy
Gesualdo: Libro Sesto (extaits):
I (Se la mia morte brami)
III (Beltà, poi che t’assenti)
VI (Resta di darmi noia)
VII (Al mio gioir)
Claudio Monteverdi
«Rimanti in pace»

résonances 19:45 Salle de Musique de Chambre
Catherine Kontz and James Weeks in conversation with Lydia Rilling (E)

The «Italian Madrigal Book» of the British vocal ensemble EXAUDI ranges from the Renaissance to the present day, interweaving Italian and Franco-Flemish madrigals, full of powerful passion and deep despair, with new madrigals by contemporary composers such as Finnissy, Gervasoni, and Sciarrino. Catherine Kontz contributes her new composition Il Floridoro – Canto 4 to the collection, for which she has chosen a text by the poet Moderata Fonte from 1581 that is just as relevant today as it was then.

Tickets (en vente): 15 / 25 € (<27 ans 9 / 15 €)

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Roland Kluttig direction
Susanne Elmark soprano
Séverine Ballon violoncelle

Chaya Czernowin
Guardian pour violoncelle et orchestre
(commande Philharmonie et Südwestrundfunk)
Morton Feldman
Neither. Opera in one act (version concert)

résonances 18:30 Grand Auditorium
Chaya Czernowin in conversation
with Lydia Rilling (E)

Two grand premieres: Morton Feldman’s only opera Neither, a setting of 87 words by Samuel Beckett, has its Luxembourg premiere. In this outstanding reinvention of opera, the music draws subdued power by the means of the most delicate nuances between sound and silence. Like Feldman’s piece Chaya Czernowin’s new cello concerto Guardian reveals, with its tactile and sculptural sound textures, the expressive power of contemporary music.

Tickets (en vente): 20 € (<27 ans 12 €)
The ticket also grants free entrance to the concert at 22:00 «Yarn/Wire I».

United Instruments of Lucilin
Garrett Keast direction musicale

Sophie Deshayes flûte
Marcel Lallemang clarinette
Olivier Sliepen saxophone
Fabian Perdichizzi violon
Danielle Hennicot alto
Ingrid Schoenlaub violoncelle
Pascal Meyer piano
Guy Frisch percussion

Léo Collin Seismographer (création)
Simone Corti Relation in time (création)
Jonah Haven You feel for me almost a loneliness — you wear me too (création)
Sylvain Marty Wandering Monades (création)
Nick Morrish Rarity Life of Lines II (création)
Maria Teresa Treccozzi On lightness (création)
Claudio Panariello Piccolo inventario degli insetti
Adam Maor Bayati
Œuvres des compositeurs et compositrices de la Luxembourg Composition Academy

Production neimënster et United Instruments of Lucilin

For the first time, rainy days offers the Luxembourg Composition Academy in collaboration with United Instruments of Lucilin and the Abbey of Neumünster, who founded the academy together with the composer Marcel Reuter in 2015. Eight young composers from seven different countries work at the Abbey of Neumünster for one week together with the faculty Chaya Czernowin (Harvard University) and Mauro Lanza (Universität der Künste Berlin) as well as with Lucilin in masterclasses and workshops. In the final concert Lucilin presents the new works written for the ensemble by the young composers. Discoveries guaranteed!

Free admission

Yarn/Wire
Ian Antonio percussion
Russell Greenberg percussion
Laura Barger piano
Ning Yu piano

Rick Burkhardt
Earth Opens
(création, commande Philharmonie)
Ann Cleare
I should live in wires for leaving you behind
Enno Poppe
Feld
(création européenne)

The New York ensemble Yarn/Wire reveals its aesthetic versatility with three works lately written specifically for the young ensemble. Rick Burkhardt’s new composition Earth Opens recasts the musicians as actors; Enno Poppe’s recently premiered Feld demands extraordinary technical and musical proficiency; and in Ann Cleare’s I should live in wires for leaving you behind the musicians elicit poetic sounds from flower pots, crystal bowls, salad spinners, marbles, and melodicas.

Tickets (en vente): 15 € (<27 ans 9 €)

Klangforum Wien
Emilio Pomàrico direction
Annette Bik violon
Gunde Jäch-Micko violon
Sophie Schafleitner violon
Dimitrios Polisoidis alto
Benedikt Leitner violoncelle
Andreas Lindenbaum violoncelle
Uli Fussenegger contrebasse
Vera Fischer flûte
Eva Furrer flûte
Markus Deuter heckelphone
Olivier Vivarès clarinette
Bernhard Zachhuber clarinette
Lorelei Dowling basson
Gerald Preinfalk saxophone
Christoph Walder cor
Anders Nyqvist trompette
Davur Juul Magnussen trombone
Lukas Schiske percussion
Alex Lipowski percussion
Aurélie Saraf harpe
Florian Müller piano
Joonas Ahonen piano
Krassimir Sterev accordéon

Georges Aperghis
Situations pour 23 solistes

résonances 19:30 Grand Auditorium
Benedikt Leiter from Klangforum Wien in conversation with Lydia Rilling (D)

With Situations. Une convivialité musicale, the composer Georges Aperghis created in 2013 a love ­declaration to the musicians of Klangforum Wien and the conductor Emilio Pomàrico. In the 70-minute composition, he merges 23 portraits of their individual personalities, often informed by years of intense collaboration, and written into the fingers and the voice of the musicians. A composer’s affection turned into music.

Tickets (en vente): 15 € (<27 ans 9 €)

Tomomi Adachi, Jennifer Walshe voix
Aniela Stoffels flûte
Marc Meyers trombone
Danielle Hennicot alto
Florian Hoelscher piano
Andreas Borregaard accordéon
Hany Heshmat guitare

Ensemble Adapter
Kristjana Helgadóttir flûte
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson clarinette
Matthias Engler percussion

Noise Watchers

S.L.Á.T.U.R.
Áki Ásgeirsson, Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Jesper ­Pedersen performance, conception, composition

Yarn/Wire
Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg percussion
Laura Barger, Ning Yu piano

Production Philharmonie Luxembourg, Noise Watchers et Mudam

With a mosaic of short concerts in several different spaces, Philharmonie and Mudam turn into a wunderkammer presenting a broad range of musical emotions. Including classics of electronic music and world premieres, intimate piano music and meditative percussion, accordion plus video and an architectural sound installation, and a workshop for children, this cornucopia of performances offers something for everybody.

Free admission

United Instruments of Lucilin
Stéphany Ortega voix
Jean-Marc Foltz clarinettes
Olivier Sliepen saxophone
André Pons-Valdès violon
Danielle Hennicot alto
Jean-Philippe Martignoni violoncelle
Henning Sieverts contrebasse
Pascal Meyer piano
Guy Frisch percussion

&

Project 128 – live techno
Anna voor de Wind clarinette
Jellantsje de Vries violon électrique
Bence Huszar violoncelle électrique
Pascal Meyer synthesizer
Yu Oda live electronics

Un concert décalé avec soupe à l’oignon et danse en option

Refreshments will be available

Production Philharmonie Luxembourg et United Instruments of Lucilin

United Instruments of Lucilin and Project 128 invite you to the Bal contemporain, the final party of rainy days, with an original musical mix: from a world premiere by Genoël von Lilienstern and compositions by François ­Sarhan, Alexander Schubert, and Frank Zappa to musette and Luxembourgish chansons as well as live techno. True to the spirit of a ball, onion soup will be served and of course there will be dancing.

Tickets (en vente): 15 € – The price includes onion soup