Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra mit Jörg Widmann

In the organizer's words:

musica viva concertgoers will never forget the unleashing of the eruptive Tutuguri music 13 years ago with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano in Munich's Gasteig. Now, for the opening of the 2026/27 musica viva season, Tutuguri music is coming to Munich once again. This time with the curious and determined students of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, once initiated by Pierre Boulez, under the direction of Jörg Widmann. The guest performance of this extraordinary production from Lucerne is made possible by the räsonanz - Stifterkonzertinitiative, launched in 2016 by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation together with musica viva des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Lucerne Festival.

räsonanz donor concert of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

The full-length, eruptive Tutuguri music by Wolfgang Rihm - an imaginary monumental poème dansé of released energy. In the 1930s, Antonin Artaud attended a peyote ceremony of the indigenous Tarahumara tribe in Mexico, which led him to associate a literary text full of archaic rituals and intoxicating hallucinations. Around 50 years later, this triggered Wolfgang Rihm's idea of music "in its raw state", music that should and wanted to be nothing more "than itself, naked".

Program:
Wolfgang Rihm [1952-2024]
Tutuguri
for large orchestra, percussionists, choir from tape and narrator [1980-82]
Poème dansé after the poem Tutuguri from the radio play Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu by Antonin Artaud

I. Image (invocation ... the black hole ...)
II. image (black and red dances ... the horse ...)
III. picture (the Peyotl dance ... the last sun ... the screaming man ...)
IV. Image IV (crosses ... the horseshoe ... the six men ... the seventh ...)

Participants:
Michael Engelhardt Speaker
N.N. Percussion group
Christoph Sietzen Percussion and rehearsals
Markus Güdel Lighting
Maxime Le Saux Sound direction
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

Jörg Widmann Conductor

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