In this opening concert, which celebrates the first collaboration of the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa with the Música Viva Festival, we will be able to listen to the Portuguese premiere of Mixtur 2003 in its two different versions (the original and the backward ones) and also to Gesang der Jünglinge, following the programme lineup suggested by the composer himself. These are representative pieces in the Music History
of the XX century, leaving indelible marks; gathered here, these two have the symbolic intent to salute Karlheinz Stockhausen, certainly one of the XX century’s musical greatest genious, who has recently passed away.

On the world premiere of Mixtur 2003 at the Salzburg Festival 2006, Stockhausen wrote in its programme notes:
“MIXTUR is the history’s leap from the classical orchestra to the o Elektronisch Klangkörper (electronic sound body; the german word is used for big ensembles like orchestras and choirs).
(…) The important feature in MIXTUR is, on one hand, the transformation of the orchestra familiar sound into a new enchanted sound world.
It is an amazing experience watching and listening to the musicians playing a sustained note and perceiving at the same time that this sound is slowly withdrawing from itself in a glissando; the pulsation accelerates and a wonderful new sound spectrum emerges. (…) The musicians themselves get astonished listening to “their” sound moving as on its own (…)
MIXTUR was the beginning of the live-electronics music, which has been growing into several different forms for these last four decades (…)”.
       
PEDRO AMARAL conductor
ALBERTO ROQUE assistant conductor
CRFMW/MISO STUDIO tecnical implementation
JEAN-MARC SULLON | ANDRE BARTETZKI musical assistants
ÂNGELA LOPES | GILSON BECK | JAIME REIS | JOSÉ LUÍS FERREIRA

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN 
Mixtur 2003 (vor) *

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN 
Gesang Der Jünglinge

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN 
Mixtur 2003 (rück) *

* Portuguese Premiere

CO-PRODUCTION
MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL, IGESPAR/MOSTEIRO DOS JERÓNIMOS, CCB, ORQUESTRA METROPOLITANA DE LISBOA

SUPPORT
CRFMW, PARÓQUIA DE STA. MARIA DE BELÉM, MINISTÉRIO DA CULTURA, APPLE/VAD PORTUGAL, LOURISOM