| RASALÎLA is an attempt to find a new approach toward musical dialogue between India and the West. In a process extending over many years, Indian classical musicians have explored the concepts and practice of contemporary Western art music in workshops, in musical dialogues with the Ensemble Modern and in exhaustive theoretical debates. Finally, in close collaboration with the musicians of the Ensemble Modern, they developed musical works that reflect a differentiated encounter between these two utterly disparate musical cultures on a sophisticated intellectual and musical level. Intercultural musical dialogues have been held on a number of issues: can Indian music even be expressed in notation? Can the improvisations of European music really live up to the strict standards of Indian musicians? Here these questions have given rise to surprising and highly individual answers.
Program
Ashok Ranade
ATMARATI / SONGNESS (2003)
Shubha Mudgal, Dhruba Ghosh, Aneesh Pradhan,
Strings of the Ensemble Modern
Première / Commission Aneesh Pradhan
IN FLESH AND BLOOD (2003)
Aneesh Pradhan and musicians of the Ensemble Modern
Première / Commission Klarenz Barlow
RAAG BÁRAHW ˜A (1974)
for musicians from North India
Dhruba Ghosh, Aneesh Pradhan, Shirish Korde
TENDERNESS OF CRANES (1990)
Dietmar Wiesner, Flute Solo Uday Bhawalkar
NADA RANGA (2003)
Uday Bhawalkar and musicians of the Ensemble Modern
Première / Commission P A U SE Ashok Ranade / Sandeep Bhagwati
SANGIT-SAMBHAV (2003)
Ensemble Modern
conducted by Kasper de Roo Klarenz Barlow
LUDUS RAGALIS (1974 / 2003) for piano
12 Preludes and Fugues
I. Tilakkámód, II. Bihág, III. Yamankalyán, IV. Gòrsárang, V. Hamír, VI. Kédár,
VII. Kámód, IIX. Cháyanat, IX. Jhinijhóti,
X. Khamáj, XI. Dés, XII. Bilával
Hermann Kretzschmar, Piano Solo
Première / Commission Aneesh Pradhan / Shubha Mudgal
SAMAGAM (2002)
Shubha Mudgal, Uday Bhawalkar, Aneesh Pradhan
Première / Commission Naresh Sohal
THE UNSUNG SONG (1993)
Ivonne Fuchs, Alt
Ensemble Modern,
conducted by Kasper de Roo
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