Monday Evening Concerts: Sciarrino's Perfection December 7, 2009

Doina Rotaru: Tempio di fumo (U.S. premiere)
Tristan Murail: Territoires de l'oubli (L.A. premiere)
Salvatore Sciarrino: La perfezione di uno spirito sottile (U.S. premiere)

Mario Caroli, flute
Marilyn Nonken, piano
Jonathan Hepfer, percussion
Alice Teyssier, soprano

The flute, one of man’s first instruments, appropriately animates this concert of music that is utterly modern yet seemingly ancient in its evocation of nature’s elements and rhythms. Salvatore Sciarrino’s epic La perfezione di uno spirito sottile transports the listener into a world of suspended time, with a sensual text from poetry found on ancient gold plates in Crete. Exploiting the piano’s resonances, Tristan Murail’s Territoires de l’oubli generates immense and colorful sonorities that recall crashing ocean waves. Doina Rotaru’s intoxicating music for flute is heard for the first time in the U.S.

Official Website: http://www.mondayeveningconcerts.org/events/120709.html