Several significant premières took place during the 2024 edition of the Donaueschingen Festival, and, as usual, SWR has made the concerts available online. At around 1 hr 14m in the video above you can hear Chaya Czernowin's Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings, for six amplified voices, orchestra, and electronics — a minutely teeming natural soundscape, with the vocal soloists calling out in sometimes desperate, sometimes dreamlike tones. Also very much worth a listen is a concert featuring George Lewis's The Reincarnation of Blind Tom, a majestically wild piece written for the great Roscoe Mitchell (with obbligato AI piano), and Simon Steen-Andersen's kaleidoscopic grosso, composed for Yarn/Wire. Mark Andre's sprawling, meditative piano-and-electronics work …selig ist…, which Jeffrey Arlo Brown previewed for the New York Times, can be heard here.
Previously: Donaueschingen 2012.
