Stabat Mater [SOLD-OUT]
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre
Cr de Saint-Pierre, 1204 Genève
Subscription concert
Giacinto Scelsi
and Pergolèse
All the
other dates
12.05.2025, 20:30
13.05.2025, 20:30
16.05.2025, 20:30
17.05.2025, 20:30
18.05.2025, 20:30
Program
Giacinto Scelsi
Three Latin Prayers (1970)
for a cappella choir
Giacinto Scelsi
Quattro pezzi su una nota sola (1959)
for instrumental ensemble
Pergolèse
Stabat Mater (1736)
sacred music for instrumental
ensemble and voice
Cast
Barbara Hannigan
Conductor
and soprano
Romeo Castellucci
Stage direction, set design
costumes and lighting
Christian Longchamp
Dramaturgy
Jakub Józef Orliński
Countertenor
Il Pomo d’Oro
Continuo and choir
Ensemble Contrechamps
A creation
Le Grand Théâtre de Genève
A coproduction
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Dutch National Opera
Partners
Loterie Romande
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz (FPFS)
Ville de Genève
Conducted by Barbara Hannigan and staged by Romeo Catellucci around Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Contrechamps performs Giacinto Scelsi’s Quattro pezzi (su una nota sola), a pioneering work written for a 26-instrument chamber orchestra in 1959. Each of the Quattro pezzi is spontaneously inventive while rigorously adhering to a single note. With his exquisitely crafted orchestration and unrivalled use of timbre, Scelsi harnesses this formal constraint into the power of sound in a way that is both subtle and powerful.
[GS]
Fig. 20 et 21
Representation of a resonant body [GS]
perturbed by various properties of the
sound track: quattro_pezzi_w-score_
for_orchestra_1959.mp3
Giacinto Scelsi / Quattro pezzi su una nota sola