Rotondo

„Die Kunst des Fügens” – a musical patchwork

by Werner Bärtschi, Ulrich Gasser, Max E. Keller, Martin Sigrist and Peter Wettstein

Composers are known to work alone. They create their works as undisturbed as possible, in a secluded room, in a vacation or garden shed, wherever and however it suits them. But in any case: they write alone. For once, five composers wanted to break out of this, wanted to create a joint work, a collective composition. Rotondo is one such collective composition.
The joint creation process demanded a tremendously intensive interaction and resulted in a work lasting almost an hour, full of ideas and drama, a work that none of the five could have written alone and which as a whole grew beyond their individual capabilities. Increases, contrasts, accelerations, reductions, expansions, standstills, occasionally also persiflage or ironic references structure the music.
The text “Quergänge” is closely linked to this composition for nine instruments. A text without music, i.e. no text setting. Pure literature of the unusual kind. It will be read by Matthias von Baussnern at the beginning of the evening.

Ensemble Aventure: Alexander Ott, Oboe; Wolfgang Rüdiger, Fagott;
Yanis Belaïd, Trompete; David Cox, Posaune; Volker Rausenberger,
Akkordeon; Akiko Okabe, Klavier; Nicholas Reed, Schlagzeug; Katharina
Schmauder, Viola; Anna Stelzner, Kontrabass

Lesung: Matthias von Baussnern