Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra

Philippe Manoury, Jonathan Harvey, Arnold Schoenberg

Due to a sudden eye infection, Pierre Boulez will be unable to conduct the concert. It will now be conducted by Clement Power, who has supported Pierre Boulez over the past three weeks in his work with the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Inspired by Faulkner and Shakespeare, commissioned by the orchestras of Cleveland and Chirago, Philippe Manoury's Sound & Fury contrasts two worlds, two spatialized blocks of brass and string instruments throughout a non-sequential trajectory. Created for an orchestral ensemble and electronics, Speakings by Jonathan Harvey lives out the dream of a speaking orchestra. Written in 1909 in under 20 days, Schoenberg's monodrama is like a seismograph of the soul where anguish, a forest, waiting, and the loneliness of a woman - here the soprano Deborah Polaski - are projected.

Philippe Manoury Sound and Fury

Jonathan Harvey Speakings

Arnold Schoenberg Erwartung

Deborah Polaski soprano
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Conductor Clement Power
IRCAM Computer Music Design Gilbert Nouno, Arshia Cont

In partnership with IRCAM-Centre Pompidou.
Concert recorded by France Musique and broadcast on October 8 at 8pm in Les Lundis de la contemporaine.