LuganoMusica Ensemble
Andrea Oliva, flute
Paolo Beltramini, clarinet
Corrado Giuffredi, clarinet
Serena Basandella, trumpet
Leonardo Bartelloni, piano
Gabriele Carcano, piano
Robert Kowalski, violin
Danilo Rossi, viola
Asier Polo, cello
Quartetto Energie Nove
Brent Michael Smith, narrator

Thomas Adès
Court Studies from "The Tempest" for clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Tierkreis

Luciano Berio
Sequence I for flute solo

Frank Martin
Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes

The LuganoMusica Ensemble will open its second concert with a piece by Thomas Adès, one of the most innovative and appreciated composers of the youngest generation. This suite of exquisite studies for violin, clarinet, cello and piano distils - in a purely instrumental form - the essence of the musician's surprising work The Tempest. Tierkreis is a unique composition in Karlheinz Stockhausen's universe: despite the simplicity of its approach, this work remains visionary and radical. Frank Martin is one of the most illustrious Swiss composers of the past century. His Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes reflects central aspects of his style, at the cross of late German Romanticism, French Impressionism, Stravinsky or Hindemith's Neoclassicism and Schoenberg's dodecaphonism.