From September 11 to 27, the Tyrolean municipality of Schwaz will once again be focused on contemporary music. We are very pleased that two of our composers are represented in this year’s Klangspuren Schwaz program: Francisco Alvarado, festival newcomer, and Bernhard Gander, who has a long and close connection to the festival.
The opening concert on September 11 will open with works by both composers that explore the festival theme Rewind – Play – Fast Forward (in reference to Alvarado’s work) from different angles. In Bernhard Gander’s fanfare fanal für den Trompetenbaum von Jakob Scheid a digitally controlled compressed air machine is playing a braid of different brass instruments. Whereas Francisco Alvarado’s work REW • PLAY • FFWD for orchestra and electronics uses the sounds of magnetic bands from audio and VHS cassettes. Susanne Blumenthal conductsTiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck in this Austrian premiere.
Two more world premieres of works by Bernhard Gander will follow the opening concert. On September 21 Three Thrashy Threads is performed by Tiroler Kammerorchester InnStrumenti, led by Gerhard Sammer, in the closing concert of the traditional sound journey (Klangwanderung) through Schwaz. It’s a piece composed in an easily audible triple rhythm that is subordinated to complicated metric units of melodies and riffs in odd time signatures.
Finally, on September 24, ensemble airborne extended is performing the world premiere of Extended Ecstasy for two flutes, harp and harpsichord. An unusually groovy trip for these baroque instruments.
For more information see Klangspuren Schwaz.
