Beethoven Academie - Oswald Sallaberger

A concert series with a special focus on piano concertos cannot ignore the work of György Ligeti (°1923). This work has been on right on top of the list of the deSingel as well as the Beethoven Academie. Ligeti specialist Jan Michiels and the conductor Oswald Sallaberger are the ideal pair to meet this challenge. In the way of expressiveness, originality and global influence Ligeti is undoubtedly the most important among living composers. His piano concerto completed in 1988, was his first major work, which absorbed his investigation of African and Caribbean polyrhythmics. He writes: "I am declaring my artistic credo with the piano concerto: my independence from the criteria of the traditional avant-garde, as well as those of the usual post modernism." A suitable frame for this work are the renditions of a symphony, which has provoked some of the major developments in orchestral music, the 'Second' of Beethoven, and a world première for orchestra by one of our most influential composers, Luc Van Hove (°1957). Van Hove says about his newly written orchestra work: "Within the diversity of sound, which currently typifies contemporary classical music, I will continue on my quest for music inspired by harmony. I will look for the intrinsic harmonic structures, which are deemed objective in the 12-tone thinking, in order to bring them to life in a 'lingual' context. Thus systematically, as well as coherently."