ELISION and CIKADA Ensembles
19.00, March 15, 2003
Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonie, Berlin
Presented as part of MaerzMusik 2003

Cikada Ensemble, Christian EGGEN conductor

Jon Øivind NESS Interrupted Cycles (1996)

Lars Petter HAGEN Passage (2001)

WORLD PREMIERE

Iannis XENAKIS Morsima-Amorsima (1962)

Bent SØRENSEN The Lady and the Lark (1997)

Bent SØRENSEN The Hill of the Heartless Giant (2001)

Bent SØRENSEN The Weeping White Room (2002)

during the intermission

Cecilie ORE Praesens Subitus (1989)

string quartet

ELISION Ensemble, Christian EGGEN conductor
Erkki VELTHEIM viola
Ute WASSERMANN voice

Liza LIM The Heart's Ear (1997)

flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello

Michael FINNISSY Sorrow, and its beauty

erhu, violoncello, voice

Brian FERNEYHOUGH Incipits (1996)

solo viola and obligato percussion, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin I, violin II, violoncello, contrabass

Chris DENCH ik(s)land[s] (1998)

flute, clarinet, guitar, violin, violoncello, percussion and voice

Sorrow, and its beauty by Michael FINNISSY for flexible instrumentation is a joint commission of MaerzMusik and ELISION Ensemble