Repertoire
Michael Daugherty: Of War and Peace for Symphonic Band (2017) 14’
Ida Gotkovsky: Poème du feu (1978) 14’
Francisco Guerrero Marín: Anemos C for Wind and Percussion (1976) 8’
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird (1919 version) 22’
ARTISTS
Barcelona Symphonic Band (BMB)
Armando Merino, conductor
Programme
The first piece is Of War and Peace by Michael Daugherty. In the composer’s own words, the work is, ‘my sonic response to the never-ending tragedy of war and the hope for peace’. The composition is in two movements performed without a pause, the first representing war and the second, peace.
Then follows the Poème du feu (Fire Poem) by Ida Gotkovsky, whose 90th birthday the Band is celebrating, in which the composer explores the relationship of humanity with fire, as a sacred element and as an incandescent life force.
The programme closes with Anemos C, the chamber work by Francisco Guerrero Marín, one of the last century’s most original Spanish composers. The piece is reminiscent of Varèse, and the groundbreaking The Firebird, the first musical success for Igor Stravinsky, written for the Ballets Russes in Paris at the start of the 20th century.
