Dante Boon
Dutch composer and pianist Dante Boon plays a concert of chromatic (Luque, Lutyens) and modal music (Cage), observations of nature (Frey, Venturelli) and places to dwell (Beuger, Boon).
Antoine Beuger’s large-scale, extremely poetic and intimate piano work, written specifically for Dante Boon, will receive its first performance in the UK.
Programme:
1. Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983) – Five Bagatelles Op. 49 (1962) 7’
2. Sergio Luque (1976) – Telescope (2016-2017) 9’
3. John Cage (1912-1992) – In a Landscape (1948) 7’
4. Caterina Venturelli (1977) – Stalattiti (2006) 3’
5. Jürg Frey (1953) – Three Piano Pieces (2017-2018) 15’
– intermission –
1. Dante Boon (1973) – before traces (2019) WP 8’
2. Antoine Beuger – traces of eternity: of what is yet to be (2018) 22’
WP = World Premiere