Length: approx. 2h
Festival Présences 2025 #7 : Hommage à Pierre Boulez
This concert is a story of admiration and shared friendships. In 2000, Pierre Boulez, aged 75, was directing Clinamen Nodus, a piece by Olga Neuwirth that integrated in the orchestra her favorite instruments: Hawaian guitar, Varesian sirens and leading percussions. For her piece Tombeau I, which she dedicated to Pierre Boulez, Olga Neuwirth imagines a slow acoustic twilight, where the electronics finds its place – a "prelude to Lohengrin" of the 21st century. This programme features Olga Neuwirth's most recent works, as well as Michaël Levinas's explosive gesture, written for a solo organ.
Andrew Watts countertenor
Adélaïde Ferrière percussions
Lucile Dollat organ
Maîtrise de Radio France
Sofi Jeannin choirmaster
Orchestre National de France
Matthias Pintscher director
Augustin Muller IRCAM electronics
Luca Bagnoli IRCAM sound diffusion
Olga Neuwirth Tombeau I, commissioned by WDR, Radio-France, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and the Festival of Lucerne, with the support of the Pierre Boulez Foundation World Premiere
Olga Neuwirth Keyframes for a Hippogriff French Premiere
Michaël Levinas Clameurs pour orgue, commissioned by Radio France World Premiere
Olga Neuwirth Trurliade – Zone Zero French Premiere