Photo: Muziekgebouw Amsterdam © Foppe Schut
Klangforum Wien, a regular guest at the Muziekgebouw, is considered one of the world’s finest ensembles for new music. On 19 November the Ensemble will perform the world premiere of*the illuminated grid* by Catherine Lamb, an award-winning American composer. Atmosphere and resonance play a central role in her work. Although theoretically complex, the sophisticated processes that Lamb sets in motion reach the ear as enchanting, multifaceted clouds of sound that are constantly changing. And that is precisely the specialty of the Klangforum. Catherine Lamb once said of the Ensemble: “It felt as if the Ensemble were functioning as a single organism.” That will undoubtedly also be the case with her own new work.
Klangforum pairs Lamb with the living legend György Kurtág, whose hundreth birthday earlier this year was celebrated grandly at the Muziekgebouw. With the 1980 song cycle "Die Botschaften des verstorbenen Fräulein R.V. Troussowa" Kurtág cemented his status as a world-class composer of truly exceptional calibre.
Supported by funds from the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA).