Program
Andreas Moustoukis
Im Äther for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot (2023)
Lullabies (The songs I’ve never sung you) for five voices a cappella (2023, world premiere)
performers:
musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra Soloists
vocal ensemble musicAeterna Vox
Chief choirmaster and conductor — Vitaly Polonsky
Details
MusicAeterna resident composer Andreas Moustoukis presents the result of his two-year work at Dom Radio – IM ÄTHER (“In Ether”) for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot will take place. This is a micropolyphonic work based on the poems by Paul Celan interspersed with quotations from world cinema.
The author explains the essence of the new work as follows: “Im Äther (στον αιθέρα) is the need to breath out in the stratosphere were the gravitation is low and all the time is becoming one and a single moment of a crystal silence. The past, the present and the future stop to exist between then and now in a violent and compensating ‘why’, they just exist timelessly in the cosmic black as if they were small red shining dots of love, the tears of eternity.”