20th Century Classics 1

The festival’s opening concert features masterpieces from 20th century composers.

In György Ligeti's Artikulation physical space expands and contracts, mysterious objects bounce and float and imaginary creatures converse.

Luigi Nono plays with some of the densest, darkest timbres of the woodwind family and lifts them off the ground into the ether.

Berio's hardcore modernism opens our ears to a fabulously brittle soundscape of disjunction and variation.