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Canciones lunáticas

countertenor and string quartet

Hilda Paredes

How to buy

979-0-57036-071-0 Canciones lunáticas – Score Available at MusicRoom Buy now (£8.95)
979-0-57036-127-4 Canciones lunáticas – Parts Available at MusicRoom Buy now (£33.00)

Description

Canciones Lunáticas was commissioned by Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Frühling in 2009.

It was written for Jake Arditti (Countertenor) and the Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti & Ashot Sarkissjan, Violines, Ralf Ehlers, Viola, Lucas Fels, Violoncello).

Songs II and III were premiered on 17th April 2009 at the Festival. The first song was written later for the 80th birthday of our dear friend Leo Hepner. The third song is dedicated to Sonia Simmenauer who commissioned the work and made this project possible.

Details

Categories
Duration
20 minutes
Libretto/text
Pedro Serrano
Premiere

Songs II and III: Jake Arditti and the Arditti Quartet, Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Frühling, 17th April 2009

Scoring
1 Countertenor, 2 Violin, 1 Viola, 1 Violoncello
Composition date
2009

Recordings

Cuerdas del Destino Jake Arditti, Arditti Quartet 10th February 2015

Performances

24 November 2024 Auditorium of the University of Education Weingarten
15 June 2023 Grosser Festsaal Chipperfield-Bau, Kunsthaus Zürich
6 May 2023 Offenbacher Landstr.190, 60599Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3 February 2023 Wigmore Hall, London, W1U 2BP
6 June 2022 Pierre Boulez Saal, Französische Straße 33 D, 10117 Berlin
28 September 2021 Hans Huber Saal, Stadtcasinos Basel Switzerland
15 June 2021 Hans Huber Saal, Stadtcasinos. Basel, Switzerland
22 May 2021 Boulez Saal, Französische Straße, 33 D 10117, Berlin
14 September 2019

Beethoven-Haus, Bonn
10 November 2018

Kurhaus, Badenweiler
16 October 2014 Templo de la Valenciana
16 August 2014

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
24 May 2014

Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
9 December 2012

Washington Library, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Chicago Library, Chicago
16 September 2012

Ishibashi Memorial Hall, 4-24-12 Higashi Ueno Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8642
18 November 2011

Festival d'Autumne, Amphitheatre de l'Opera de la Bastille, Paris
29 October 2011

Mozart Saal, Konzerthaus, Wien, Austria
2 July 2011

Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Stuttgart, Germany
3 February 2011

Wigmore Hall, London
17 April 2009

Musik- und Singschule Heidelberg: Kirchstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg