This year Resident Advisor, the world’s leading electronic music site, will return to curate the SonarLab stage—this time on Saturday at Sónar by Night. The programme includes the exclusive premiere of Carl Craig’s Versus Synthesizer Ensemble, with the Detroit icon performing alongside a group of elite musicians including the pianist Francesco Tristano.
In the context of Music Discovery Project, FT will be with Moritz von Oswald and the HR symphony orchestra presenting ‘UrSprung’ (Origin) next January 27th and 28th at Jahrhunderthalle -Frankfurt, DE-.
Music from Bach to Ravel and Rameau to Honegger is the starting point for surprising excursions, transformations and different routes into the musical worlds of classical, jazz, electronics and techno under the direction of José Luís Gómez.
On Dec 1 at 23.35, watch Francesco’s premiere concert of Goldberg City Variations recorded at the Bach Festival in Köthen on German channel MDR.
The recording of Francesco Tristano is particularly ambitious. He developed a visualization for the sound of the Goldberg Variations, he understood Bach’s music as an architectural utopia. The idea for this project goes back to the composer and architect lannis Xenakis and his idea of a “cosmic city”.
In their first collaboration, they create an original and complementary program, where the Shostakovich-Schnittke binomial is intense and their “Vivaldi 2.0” is lively and refreshing. Also, they will be joined by Jean-Daniel Hégé on double bass, and will be playing the ‘Four Seasons’, renamed as ‘Jazzcursions’ for this ocassion, which will surely surprise as well as seduce by their refinement and spontaneity.
The program includes Quartet nº1 in Major D op.49 from Dimitri Chostakovich, Piano Quintet for piano and quartet of Alfred Schnittke and The Four Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi with a free interpretation by Francesco Tristano for piano, quartet, chords and double bass.
You can get your ticket here