Le compositeur de la semaine est Garth Knox, un compositeur pas tout à fait comme les autres puisqu’il est aussi interprète et improvisateur. C’est lui qui joue cette semaine ses Petites Entropies pour viole d’amour : cinq voyages dans les sonorités d’un instrument magnifique, un peu oublié et qu’il fait revivre dans la musique d’aujourd’hui.
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Garth Knox applies magic to viola d’amore and viola works for Cleveland Museum of Art’s Viva! & Gala Around Town series
Moments before Garth Knox was about to play a work of his own creation titled «Misfortune strikes me,» it did. A string on his viola d’amore snapped, prompting the Irish-born musician to reorder the program and perform one of his other pieces on modern viola.
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Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Though Bach, Mozart, Dvorak, Schoenberg and Britten all played it, the viola remains widely regarded as the Cinderella of the strings, its versatility unacknowledged, its beauty concealed. But a surge of fine modern violists, with Garth Knox in the vanguard, have been championing it, and here was the man himself with a recital for Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust that exhilaratingly liberated every timbre, note or noise his instrument could produce. Continue reading “Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh”
Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust Garth Knox’s recital of modern viola music
If I thought six pieces of new music in one concert was impressive, Garth Knox clearly felt himself up to the challenge by playing seven, albeit none of them premieres, in this ecat (Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust) concert. He faced, perhaps, a bigger challenge as one might not necessarily imagine the viola could sustain a whole concert, certainly I had my doubts. Such concerns were unfounded and Knox quickly erased them.
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Alte flamme aus Eis, neu geschürt
Martin Wilkening
“Der vormalige Bratscher des Arditti-Qartetts, Garth Knox, hat sich der Viola d’amore verschrieben. Auf seinem jüngsten Album kombiniert er zeitgenössische Musik mit Originalkompositionen.”
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Ballade, Bergen
Kammerkonsertar med Garth Knox og Plus Minus
Som dere alle observerer har dette stykket nå nådd et punkt hvor følelsene så og si er sluppet helt fri. Musikerene følger ikke lenger et strengt partitur eller komponistens plan, men uttrykker seg selv. De er bedt om å utføre diverse katharsiske handlinger og er mer opptatt av egen sjelelig rensing enn av konvensjonell musikalsk struktur”, var eitt av mange innspel frå Trond Reinholdtsen i hans nye verk. ”Music as Emotion” er eit stykke med trøkk, meiner Ida Habbestad i denne meldinga.
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
* Stressed out over Angela Gheorghiu’s no-show at the NCH, I sought solace the very next morning by taking myself off to the Sunday @ Noon concert series in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Continue reading “Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane”
Knox, Vesterman, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
In his inviting and personable manner, well-matched to the relaxed mood of the Hugh Lane, viola player and former member of the Arditti String Quartet Garth Knox announced a simple plan and, partnered by cellist Agnès Vesterman, turned it into a most satisfying concert. Continue reading “Knox, Vesterman, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin”
Garth Knox à l’auditorium John Cage, Perpignan
L’homme des hautes altitudes
Lumineuse idée que d’avoir invité le presque légendaire Garth Knox – ancien alto de l’Intercontemporain de 1983 à 1990, puis du non moins zénithal quatuor Arditti jusqu’en 1997 – pour la deuxième soirée du quatorzième cycle Syntax à l’auditorium John Cage de Perpignan. L’homme impressionne par un mélange de candeur enfantine et d’aisance, un regard espiègle de jeune homme de 50 ans et un pedigree musical impressionnant. Tout ce qui compte de solistes et d’ensembles importants dans le champ des musiques d’aujourd’hui, il les a croisés en effet.
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«Fábula»: el amor y la imaginación
Estreno de la ópera «Fábula», con música de Oscar Strasnoy sobre un libereto de Alejandro Tantanián y un esquema dramatúrgico de Renate Ackermann. Compuesta para el contratenor Daniel Gloger y Garth Knox, en viola d ́amore. Decorados y vestuario: Genevieve Périat. Cantado en castellano, salvo una escena en idish (traducción de Meilach Glocer. En la Sala Martín Casacuberta del Teatro San Martín.
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