Hardenberger premieres Schwertsik's new Divertimento
(February 2008)
Håkan Hardenberger gave the first performance of Kurt Schwertsik’s new Divertimento for trumpet and orchestra at the Philharmonie in Essen on 19 December.
In characteristic fashion, Kurt Schwertsik subverts expectations of the echt-classical Viennese title with strong hints of the city’s 1920s Golden Age. Kristjan Järvi conducted the premiere with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, and Hardenberger joins him for further performances in March and April at the Musikverein in Vienna and the Festspielhaus in St Pölten, and with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow in April 2009.
“The Divertimento was colourful and opulent in its range of sounds, rhythmically accented and exciting… We heard sophisticated dialogues between the singing and springing trumpet and the orchestra, writing that was capricious and rhythmically fiery as well as melodic, and music rich in tone colour.”
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
“Music emerges which evades stylistic categorisation and which can be listened to with pleasure, whether it be the stumbling, satirising march in 5/4 time, the expansive night song or the crafty capriccio… No technical tightrope act was too difficult for Hardenberger. He performed with bravura, criss-crossing the range of the instrument to reach the virtuosic high-point of the finale, ending with a trumpet monologue.”
Neue Rhein Zeitung
Schwertsik’s future plans include a full-evening ballet based on Kafka’s America for the Landestheater in Linz for the 2009/10 season and an orchestral work for the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra for premiere in October 2008.
> Further information on Work: Divertimento Macchiato
Photo: Karl Kleemayr
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