Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Baldur Brönnimann | Miah Persson
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Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Miah Persson, soprano
Mark Andre: "Im Entschwinden" for orchestra
Mark Andre: "Im Entfalten" (Dem Andenken an Pierre Boulez) for orchestra
Mark Andre: "Im Entsiegeln 1" for soprano and orchestra (world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival and the Philharmonie Essen's NOW! festival)
Mark Andre admits that his "obsession" lies in "compositional in-between spaces" – those moments that vanish almost instantly yet may carry the greatest intensity. In his orchestral work "Im Entschwinden", composed in 2021-22, this year's composer-in-residence focuses on the fleeting instant when sound dissolves into silence. His exquisitely delicate music – splintered into noise-like textures – observes "the very last, most fragile, tender, and unstable signatures of sound", he notes. For the devout Andre, the title also has a theological dimension, alluding to the risen Christ who slips away from the earthly realm. In 2025, as an homage to Pierre Boulez, he followed it with "Im Entfalten", described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "an inward funeral march with intercessions from Boulez' favorite instruments – harp, bells, piano, flute." In Lucerne, these two works are heard together for the first time and form an orchestral cycle with the world premiere of the third part, "Im Entsiegeln 1".
Photo © Martin Sigmund
Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Miah Persson, soprano
Mark Andre: "Im Entschwinden" for orchestra
Mark Andre: "Im Entfalten" (Dem Andenken an Pierre Boulez) for orchestra
Mark Andre: "Im Entsiegeln 1" for soprano and orchestra (world premiere, commissioned by Lucerne Festival and the Philharmonie Essen's NOW! festival)
Mark Andre admits that his "obsession" lies in "compositional in-between spaces" – those moments that vanish almost instantly yet may carry the greatest intensity. In his orchestral work "Im Entschwinden", composed in 2021-22, this year's composer-in-residence focuses on the fleeting instant when sound dissolves into silence. His exquisitely delicate music – splintered into noise-like textures – observes "the very last, most fragile, tender, and unstable signatures of sound", he notes. For the devout Andre, the title also has a theological dimension, alluding to the risen Christ who slips away from the earthly realm. In 2025, as an homage to Pierre Boulez, he followed it with "Im Entfalten", described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "an inward funeral march with intercessions from Boulez' favorite instruments – harp, bells, piano, flute." In Lucerne, these two works are heard together for the first time and form an orchestral cycle with the world premiere of the third part, "Im Entsiegeln 1".
Photo © Martin Sigmund
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