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In the frame of  Transparent Sound New Music Festival, the concert focuses on three works by the 90-year-old Helmut Lachenmann: Toccatina for solo violin, Pression for solo cello, and Streichtrio. The works will be performed by members of the Korossy Quartet, while composer Márton Illés gives an interactive talk about the pieces.
Pression, a work for solo cello, was composed between 1969 and 1970. The nine-minute composition, notated graphically, incorporates a wide range of new playing techniques. As the title suggests, the composer shapes the sound world of the piece through various types and intensities of contact (“pressure”) between the instrument and the bow, using tapping, stroking, striking, and rubbing.
Toccatina, composed in 1986, was originally written as an exercise for the book "Studien zum Spielen Neuer Musik für Violine", edited by Igor Ozim. This delicate, fragile, and introverted concert étude abounds in numerous unconventional technical playing modes. It has since become very popular and is now performed at the most prestigious venues around the world. Reflecting on his string trio written in 1965, Lachenmann states: “By the time I was composing this work at the latest, I had become aware that the power of musical expression arises solely from crossing boundaries and transforming the materials used in the piece. In the string trio this happened in a rudimentary form. My later compositional work developed its visions from this point of departure.”

With the friendly support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.