Open any book on music history at the year 1950 and you will read about young, daring composers and performers and boundless experimentation. However, the post-war years had more to offer than, for instance, the modernism of Bruno Maderna’s Musica su due dimensioni, a mosaic of acoustic and electronic sounds.

This is made apparent by the capricious witticisms of André Jolivet’sRhapsodie à sept or by the septets of Igor Stravinsky and Kees van Baaren, in which twelve-tone serialism enters into a fresh alliance with neoclassical forms. The fifties were also the source of inspiration for Michael Daugherty’s Dead Elvis, a hip-jerking requiem for the ‘King of Rock ‘n Roll’.

Artists

André Jolivet
Rhapsodie à sept
Igor Stravinsky
Septet
Bruno Maderna
Musica su Due Dimensioni
Kees van Baaren
Septet
Igor Stravinsky
Three Songs from Shakespeare
Michael Daugherty
Dead Elvis

Asko|Schönberg

condcutor
Etienne Siebens
soprano
Lauren Armishaw
flute
Jeannette Landré
bassoon
Margreet Bongers