Centuries pass, but artistry is forever, and whether it’s 1726 or 2026, there’s nothing to match the voltage generated by a virtuoso performer at the absolute peak of their game. In this extraordinary, genre-crossing collaboration AAM meets marimba phenomenon Christoph Sietzen and his Wave Quartet. Sparks will fly.
‘The listener must be gripped and drawn into the flight path of the sounds,’ said Iannis Xenakis, and that’s the idea today: an adventure in musical time and space that ranges from the high baroque to the 1980s avant-garde; from the electrifying sonic patterns of Bach and Handel to the (surprisingly baroque) rhythmic rituals of Xenakis himself. These were composers who smashed boundaries and astonished the senses. We’ll aim for nothing less.
Ciaccona in C major
Concerto Grosso No. 12 La Folia, after Corelli Op. 5
Chaconne in G major HWV 435
Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV 1058 (arr. for two marimbas and strings)
Rebonds B for solo percussion
Variations on ‘La Spagna’ - Contrapunto 46, 88, 77 and 108
Harpsichord Concerto in C major BWV 1061 (arr. for marimbas and strings)
There will be a free pre-concert talk in the auditorium at 6.30pm.
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