A visual, perhaps disturbing, performance, based on the modern classic Eight Songs for a Mad King, with music by Peter Maxwell Davies and libretto by Randolph Stow. This production, made specially for the Halland Opera & Vocal Festival, features barytone Joa Helgesson, who most recently starred in the title role in the highly acclaimed Gothenburg production of Phantom […]
The opening concert of Göteborg International Organ Academy 2018 PROJEKTET is a work in twelve movements, composed by Paula af Malmborg Ward (born 1962), for soloists, three choirs, organ, percussion and chamber orchestra. Conductor is Ulrike Heider.
In 2018 – 2019, Gageego! goes out hunting for contemporary links, the starting point being composers that the ensemble has longed to perform for a long time and favourite composers.Based on these Gageego! icons, the ensemble has searched, traced and sniffed out (googled!) its way to the different composers’ respective influence on the world of […]
The opening concert of Göteborg International Organ Academy 2018 PROJEKTET is a work in twelve movements, composed by Paula af Malmborg Ward (born 1962), for soloists, three choirs, organ, percussion and chamber orchestra. Conductor is Ulrike Heider.
A part of Göteborg International Organ Academy. Mikael Fridén, organ and Gageego! Programme Edgar Varèse Density 21.5 (for solo flute) Arvo Pärt Da Pacem Domine (for string quartet) Staffan Storm …et lux in tenebris lucet Bengt Hambraeus Mikrogram: 7 aphorisms (for alto flute, viola, vibraphone, harp)
German post-war modernist music rests largely on two heavy pillars: Helmut Lachenmann’s harsh, historic gaze on the one hand, and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s growing – over the years – cosmic sounds. In the evening’s programme, we’ll hear their music and learn how they caused multiple echoes – from Billone’s ritual outbursts to Simone Movio’s hyper-precise notes. […]