1970 Basel
Jun 19, 1970 – Sep 26, 1970
Basel
Festival info
Start: Jun 19, 1970
End: Sep 26, 1970
Locations: Basel
Hosting member(s)
(Organized by the Verein für Basler Kunst- und Musikveranstaltungen)
Jury
Carel Brons
Cristóbal Halffter
Rudolf Maros
Paul Sacher
Aulis Sallinen
Concerts
* Friday, 19 June 1970 – opera performance conducted by Hans Zender
Isang Yun (West Germany, b. 1917 in South Korea; d. 1995): Der Traum des Liu-Tung (1965);
Heinz Holliger (Switzerland, b. 1939): Der magische Tänzer [libretto: Nelly Sachs] (1963-65) [35′].
* Saturday, 20 June 1970 – Concert of Swiss Music performed by the Winterthurer Stadtorchester conducted by Francis Travis
Rudolf Kelterborn (Switzerland, b. 1931; d. 2021): Miroirs for winds, piano, harp, double-bass, and percussion (1966) [10′];
Klaus Huber (Switzerland, b. 1924; d. 2017): Tempora, concerto for violin and small orchestra (1969-70) [25′] performed by Hansheinz Schneeberger;
Jürg Wyttenbach (Switzerland, b. 1935): Exécution ajournée (I), gestures for 13 musicians (1970) [25′?] [world premiere] conducted by the composer;
Jacques Wildberger (Switzerland, b. 1922; d. 2006): In my end is my beginning [text: T.S. Eliot], cantata for soprano, tenor, and chamber orchestra (1964) [14′];
Robert Suter (Switzerland, b. 1919; d. 2008): Sonata Per Orchestra In Tre Parti (1967) [20′].
Sunday, 21 June 1970 – morning
Dimitri Terzakis (Greece, b. 1938; currently living in Germany and Greece): Ikos for unaccompanied eight-part choir (1968) [3′][world premiere];
Sylvano Bussotti (Italy, b. 1931; d. 2021): Ancora odono i colli from Cinque frammenti all’ltalia for vocal sextet (1967/68) [6′] performed by the Sestetto vocale Luca Marenzio;
Ilja Zeljenka (Czechoslovakia [Slovakia], b. 1932; d. 2007): Hry (Spiele) for 13 singers and percussion (1968-69) [13′];
Atli Heimir Sveinsson (Iceland, b. 1938; d. 2019): Spectacles for percussion and fixed media electronic sounds (1969) [9′];
Makoto Shinohara (Japan, b. 1931; d. 2024): Alternance for percussion sextet (1961-62) [10′] performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Sunday, 21 June 1970 – evening concert featuring the Basler Kammerorchester
Erkki Salmenhaara (Finland, b. 1941; d. 2002): Introit from the Requiem profanum for organ, piano, and string orchestra (1968-69);
Bojidar Dimov (Bulgaria, b. 1931; d. 2003): Continuum II- Trauerminuten für Dana Kosanova for chamber orchestra (1968-69);
Alfred Janson (Norway, b. 1937; d. 2019): Nocturne [text: Friedrich Nietzsche] for chorus, two violoncellos, harp, and percussion (1967) [9′];
Jacques Guyonnet (Switzerland, b. 1933; d. 2018): The Approach to the Hidden Man II [text: Jorge Luis Borges] for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra (1968) [12′] conducted by the composer;
Henrik-Otto Donner (Finland, b. 1939; d. 2013): XC [text: Ezra Pound] for soprano solo, chorus, and chamber orchestra (1969) [12′].
Tuesday, 23 June 1970
Zsolt Durkó (Hungary, b. 1934; d. 1997): Altamira for chamber choir and orchestra (1967-68) [9′];
Gilbert Amy (France, b. 1936): Trajectoires for violin and orchestra (1966) [22′];
Vinko Globokar (France/Yugoslavia [Slovenia], b. 1934): Etude pour Folklora II for orchestra (with chorus?) (1968) [21′];
Peter Michael Braun (West Germany, b. 1936; d. 2019): Variete for orchestra (1968) [11′] [world premiere].
Wednesday, 24 June 1970 concert featuring the Gaudeamus String Quartet
Anatol Vieru (Romania, b. 1926; d. 1998): Trepte ale tacerii (Steps of Silence) for string quartet and one percussionist (1966) [17′];
Tomás Marco (Spain, b. 1942): Aura for string quartet (String Quartet No. 1) (1968) [14′];
Ross Edwards (Australia, b. 1943): String Quartet (0)?;
+ Witold Lutosławski (Poland, b. 1913; d. 1994): String Quartet (1964) [25′].
Thursday, 25 June 1970
Sven-Erik Bäck (Sweden, b. 1919; d. 1994): … sentire… for flute, violoncello, and piano (1969) [7′] performed by Severino Gazzeloni, Siegfried Palm, and a yet to be identifed pianist;
Anthony Gilbert (United Kingdom [England], b. 1934): Spell Respell, op. 14, for electric basset clarinet and piano (1968) performed by Alan Hacker;
Rudolf Escher (Netherlands, b. 1912; d. 1989): Wind Quintet (1966-67) [11′] performed by the Danzi Quintet;
Zoltán Jeney (Hungary, b. 1943; d. 2019): Soliloquium No. 1 for solo flute (1967) [7′] performed by István Matuz;
Ramon Zupko (United States, b. 1932; d. 2019): La Guerre for soprano and ensemble (1965) [17′].
Friday, 26 June 1970
Andrzej Dobrowolski (Poland, b. 1921; d. 1990): Music for Orchestra (No. 2) (1970) [8′] ?;
Antonio Tauriello (Argentina, b. 1931; d. 2011): Serenata II, music for winds and percussion (1966) [9′?];
Hans Ulrich Lehmann (Switzerland, b. 1937; d. 2013): Rondo [text: Helmut Heissenbüttel] for solo voice and orchestra (1967) [22′];
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (Denmark, b. 1932; d. 2016): Tricolore IV for orchestra (1969) [13′];
Günter Kahowez (Austria, b. 1940; d. 2016): Plejaden II for piano and 61 orchestra musicians (1966) [8′].
Other significant interpreters
Voice: Dorothy Dorow, Philip Langridge, Taru Valjakka, Joan Carroll.
Piano: Karl-Erik Welin, Roland Lumsden.
Violin: Hansheinz Schneeberger, Claire Bernard.
Violoncello: Siegfried Palm.
Percussion: Erich Singer, Willy Goudswaard.
Ensembles: Slovenski Madrigalisti, Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Solisten des Studio de Musique Contemporaine de Geneve.
Orchestra and Chorus: Radioorchester der BOG, SWF-Orch. Baden-Baden, Orch. der BOG, Chœur de la Radio Suisse Romande.
Conductors: Paul Sacher, Ladislav Holásek, Milan Horvat, Ernest Bour, Gerald Bennet.
Sources
Anton Haefeli, Die Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM), Ihre Geschichte von 1922 bis zur Gegenwart (Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, 1982), pp. 528-529.
Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, Sixth Edition edited by Laura Kuhn (Schirmer Reference, 2001), pp. 637-638.
(annotated by Frank J. Oteri, in progress)