Repertoire

Charlotte Bray: From the Innermost Places, for cello. National premiere.
Charlotte Bray: Ungrievable Lives, for string quartet. National premiere.
Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams, for piano
Hans Werner Henze: Fünf Nachtstücke, for violin and piano
Charlotte Bray: That Crazed Smile, for violin, cello and piano. National premiere.
Charlotte Bray: Those Secret Eyes, for violin, cello and piano. National premiere.
Oliver Knussen: Sonya’s Lullaby, for piano
Charlotte Bray: That which you wove of lightest thread, I wear to honour stone. National premiere. Co-commissioned by L’Auditori

Artists

Cosmos Quartet
José Vicente Castelló, horn
Rosalía Gómez Lasheras, piano

Programme

British-German composer Charlotte Bray is one of the most internationally acclaimed composers around today. Her music, defined as ‘stimulating, vivid and intensely lyrical’, has been performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and the Orchestre de Paris, among others. This program presents six works by Charlotte Bray, five of which are national premieres.

The programme will be rounded off by German composer Hans Werner Henze’s Five Night Pieces, a key work in his oeuvre in which shifts from the twelve-tone technique to a more personal language. Also included is Sonya’s Lullaby, by composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, written in the late 1970s for his daughter Sonya. Just four months old at the time, she was having difficulty falling asleep, so Knussen created this delicate lullaby to help her doze off.