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György Kurtág, Busoni and Philippe Manoury
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Date
Mon 12 Oct 2015, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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  • GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

    Programme

    • György Kurtág
      b. 1926
        • Transcription of Bach's 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' BWV106
        • Transcription of Bach's 'Alle Menschen müssen sterben' BWV643
        • Transcription of Bach's 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir' BWV687

    Interval

    • Philippe Manoury
      b. 1952
        • Le temps, mode d’emploi
          :
        • for two pianos and live electronics(UK première) [1]
    1. Co-commissioned by Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2014, SWR Experimentalstudio, and Wiener Konzerthaus, with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Impuls neue Musik, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation <p>Live-electronic realisation: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR, Freiburg</p>

    Overview

    German pianists Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacherformed their piano duo in the early 1980s. Theywere subsequently encouraged by, among others,composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen andWolfgang Rihm.

    The GrauSchumacher Piano Duopresents the UK première of Philippe Manoury’s Letemps, mode d’emploi, a fifty-minute score direct inexpression and filled with big, bold musical gestures.

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