Photo: Heinrich Horwitz

Explore Ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall in expanded form under the baton of Jack Sheen to give the UK premiere of Laure M. Hiendl’s magisterial yet enigmatic large ensemble work which deconstructs four bars from Vaughan William’s Fifth Symphony into an hour of crystalline loops and slowly shifting landscapes.

Hiendl explains, ‘The long title »Seht meine Wunden und an meinen Beinen, die Narben meiner Wunden« (denn wir sind lange gewandert) is a quote from Édouard Glissant's "Philosophy of World Relations" (Wunderhorn, 2021). His philosophy is above all also a philosophy of landscape, which recognizes its beauty in the differences and not in the unifying. This composition wants exactly that: through the repetition and the always again newly differentiated perspective it wants to produce a musical soundscape, which we traverse in a long, almost ritualistic procession.’

Programme

Laure M. Hiendl — »Seht meine Wunden und an meinen Beinen, die Narben meiner Wunden« (denn wir sind lange gewandert)*

*UK Premiere

Jack Sheen, conductor
Explore Ensemble