Mark Andre / Anton Webern / Arnold Schoenberg / Frédéric Pattar

Anton Webern /Arnold Schoenberg / Mark Andre / Frédéric Pattar

Archive 2007
Music

Mark Andre
Zum Staub sollst Du zurückkehren…
French premiere
Anton Webern
Deux pièces, for cello and piano
Arnold Schoenberg
Ein Stelldichein, for oboe, clarinet, piano, violin and cello
Frédéric Pattar
Outlyer, for an ensemble
World premiere, commissioned by the Musée du Louvre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Ensemble L’Instant Donné

Co-produced by the Musée du Louvre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the help of Sacem

The painter Anselm Kiefer chose ‘‘Boundaries’’ as the theme for the Auditorium du Louvre’s series of concerts and lectures. The musical styles of the featured composers are characterised by their freedom from formal limitations. In Webern’s and Schönberg’s early works, the boundary lies between expressiveness and formalization. Andre’s score is a metaphor for the link between the existential and the metaphysical. And Pattar’s Outlyer – a work inspired by Jim Harrison’s poem – explores the distance between what is seen and what is not seen, including a dialogue between a  flutist backstage and a violinist onstage.