Music Forum HK: Shaw. Hillborg. Richter
External Organiser
Soňa Červená Hall
Eliščino nábřeží 777, 500 03 Hradec Králové
Milan Al-Ashhab — violin
Prague Philharmonia
Robert Kružík — conductor
Caroline Shaw
Entr’acte for String Quartet (2011), arranged for String Orchestra (2014).
Anders Hillborg
Bach Materia for Violin and Strings (2017).
Max Richter
The Four Seasons Recomposed (2012)
In Entr’acte, Caroline Shaw, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and five GRAMMY® Awards, imagines a world of sounds that have always existed but have never been heard before. Inspired by the transition between the minuet and trio in Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 77 No. 2, the work unfolds as a delicate musical fantasy. Anders Hillborg composed Bach Materia as a dialogue with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Drawing on Bach’s musical material, he develops it with improvisatory freedom and a contemporary sonic imagination. In his project The Four Seasons Recomposed, Max Richter reconsiders Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons, revealing them from a fresh, contemporary perspective.
