21ST CENTURY VOICES
Henze’s Voices together with contemporary protest songs
to
Time of Music Festival, Finland
London Sinfonietta demonstrates the commissioning boldness for which it is known in this unflinching critique of modern society as part of the Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, Finland. Contrasting movements from Hans Werner Henze’s “brilliantly colorful” song cycle Voices, originally commissioned by the London Sinfonietta in 1973, with contemporary responses illustrating the frustrations and injustices of life 50 years on.
Henze’s seminal work sets a range of poems from across the globe with a common theme of oppression and resistance and still sound as provocatively relevant today as they did in the London Sinfonietta’s early days. Taking this as a starting point, composers living and working today will compare and contrast societal issues around the world in their own original protest songs.
Programme to include:
Hans Werner Henze movements from Voices
Tanya Auclair In Solidarity (world premiere)
Anna Korsun Haamu
Allison Loggins-Hull Can you see?
Missy Mazzoli In Spite of All This
Tyshawn Sorey Requiem for a Plague: Coda (world premiere)
Riikka Talvitie Green Tress (world premiere)
Charles Uzor Parmenides Prooimion (world premiere)
Charles Uzor 8'46" George Floyd in memoriam
Mariam Rezaei Azadi/Freedom (world premiere)
Christian Karlsen conductor
Carina Vinke mezzo-soprano
Auclair contralto
Peter Tantsis tenor
Mariam Rezaei turntables
Jonathan Green sound projection
London Sinfonietta
