1965 Madrid
May 20, 1965 – May 28, 1965
Madrid
Festival info
Start: May 20, 1965
End: May 28, 1965
Locations: Madrid
Hosting member(s)
(Held in connection with Primavera Cultural)
Jury
Tadeusz Baird
Jean-Claude Éloy
Óscar Esplá
Klaus Huber
Roman Vlad
Concerts
Thursday, 20 May 1965 – Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española conducted by Odón Alonso
Yorgos Sisilianos (Greece, b. 1920; d. 2005): Stasimon B’, op. 25, for mezzo-soprano, women’s voices, and orchestra (1965) [32′] featuring Alice Gabbai;
Yoritsune Matsudaira (Japan, b. 1907; d. 2001): Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1964);
Friedrich Cerha (Austria, b. 1926): Spiegel II for 55 strings (1964) [13′];
André Jolivet (France, b. 1905; d. 1974): Symphony No. 2 (1959) [26′].
Friday, 21 May 1965
Alexander Goehr (United Kingdom [England], b. 1932): Fantasias, op. 3, for clarinet and piano (1954) [12′];
Riccardo Malipiero (Italy, b. 1914; d. 2003): In Time of Daffodils [text: E. E. Cummings] for soprano, baritone, and seven instruments (1964) [21′];
Gilbert Amy (France, b. 1936): Alpha-Beth for piano and wind quintet (1963) [14′] conducted by the composer;
Luis de Pablo (Spain, b. 1930): Polar, op. 12, for ensemble (1961-62) [11′];
Motohiko Adachi (Japan, b. 1940): Concerto Grosso for Strings (1963 or 1965?) [17′];
Heinz Holliger (Switzerland, b. 1939): Glühende Rätsel [text: Nelly Sachs] for alto and ensemble (1964) [15′] conducted by the composer;
+ Béla Bartók (Hungary/United States, 1881-1945): Contrasts for clarinet, violin, and piano (1938) [18′].
Saturday, 22 May 1965
Rudolf Maros (Hungary, b. 1917 in Czechoslovakia; d. 1982): Eufonia No. 2 for winds, percussion, and 2 harps (1964) [12′];
Åke Hermanson (Sweden, b. 1923; d. 1996): In nuce, op. 7 for orchestra (1962-63) [3′];
Aribert Reimann (West Germany, b. 1936): Hölderlin-Fragmente [text: Friedrich Hölderlin] for soprano and orchestra (1963) [20′];
Andrzej Dobrowolski (Poland, b. 1921 in Ukraine; d. 1990 in Austria): Music for String Orchestra and Four Groups of Wind Instruments (1964) [7′];
+ Alban Berg (Austria, 1885-1935) Violin Concerto (1935) [25′];
Cristóbal Halffter (Spain, b. 1930; d. 2021): Secuencias for orchestra (1964) [16′].
Monday, 24 May 1965 – program conducted by José María Franco Gil at the Sala del Instituto Nacional de Previsión
Gunther Schuller (United States, b. 1925; d. 2015): Music for Brass Quintet (1961) [12′];
Camillo Togni (Italy, b. 1922; d. 1993): Rondeaux [text: Charles d’Orléans] for 10 (soprano, harpsichord, and 8 instruments) (1963-64) [11′] [world premiere] featuring soprano Ana Higueras and harpsichordist Genoveva Gálvez;
Peter Kolman (Czechoslovakia [Slovakia], b. 1937): Sonata Canonica for clarinet and bass clarinet (1963) [5′];
Noam Sheriff (Israel, b. 1935; d. 2018): Destination 5′ for brass and percussion (1962) [5′].
?* Jürg Wyttenbach (Switzerland, b. 1935): Divisions for piano and 9 solo strings (1963-64) [10′] featuring the composer at the piano *;
?* Shinichi Matsushita (Japan, b. 1922; d. 1990): Fresque sonore for seven instruments (1964) [10′] *;
?* Ton de Kruyf (Netherlands, b. 1937; d. 2012): Einst dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht … [text: Paul Klee] for mezzo-soprano and ensemble (1964) [22′] *.
Tuesday, 25 May 1965 – a special concert of Spanish music
Antón García Abril (Spain, b. 1933; d. 2021): Homenaje a Miguel Hernández [text: Miguel Hernández] for baritone and orchestra (1963-64; orch’d 1965);
Óscar Esplá (Spain, b. 1886; d. 1976): Sonata del Sur, op. 52 for piano and orchestra (1945) [27′];
Joaquín Rodrigo (Spain, b. 1901; d. 1999): Ausencias de Dulcinea for bass/baritone, four sopranos, and large orchestra (1948) [15′];
Ernesto Halffter (Spain, b. 1905; d. 1989): Canticum In Memoriam PP Johannem XXIII for soprano, chorus, and orchestra (1964) [10′];
Xavier Montsalvatge (Spain [Catalonia], b. 1912; d. 2002): Desintegración Morfológica de la Chacona de J. S. Bach for large orchestra (1963) [22′].
Wednesday, 26 May 1965
Bo Nilsson (Sweden, b. 1937; d. 2018): Szene II (1961) [4′];
Arne Nordheim (Norway, b. 1931; d. 2010): Epitaffio for orchestra and electronic sounds (1963) [10′];
Kazimierz Serocki (Poland, b. 1922; d. 1981): Freski symfoniczne (Symphonic Frescoes) (1963-64) [12′];
+ Anton Webern (Austria, 1883-1945): Symphony, op. 21 (1927-28) [10′];
+ Igor Stravinsky (United States, b. 1882 in Russia; d. 1971): Abraham and Isaac for baritone and orchestra (1962-63) [12′];
+ Arnold Schönberg (Austria/United States 1874-1951): A Survivor from Warsaw for narrator, men’s chorus, and orchestra (1947) [9′].
Friday, 28 May 1965
Domenico Guaccero (Italy, b. 1927; d. 1984): Iter inverso for 16 instruments (1963) [10′];
Alberto Ginastera (Argentina, b. 1916; d. 1983): Cantata Bomarzo, op. 32, for narrator, baritone, and chamber orchestra (1964) [26′];
René Koering (France, b. 1940): Combat T 3N for piano and chamber orchestra (1961);
Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland, b. 1933; d. 2020): Stabat Mater for three choruses unaccompanied (1962) [8′];
+ Manuel de Falla (Spain, b. 1876; d. 1946 in Argentina): El Retablo de maese Pedro (Master Pedro’s Puppet Play), opera in one act (1922) [30′].
Note
* Although Haefeli and Slonimsky both list the works by Jürg Wyttenbach, Shinichi Matsushita, and Ton de Kruyf as taking place on 24 May 1965 concert, according to a contemporaneous review by Antonio Fernández Cid (“Informaciones”, Madrid, 27 May 1965), those three works could not be performed due to a heart attack suffered while en route to the concert hall by the man who was supposed to conduct them, Francisco Gasent: “De las siete obras que formaban el programa previsto en el segundo concierto de cámara del Festival de la S.I.M.C., tres de ellas no pudieron interpretarse por culpa de un ataque al corazón sufrido por el profesor Francisco Gasent cuando se trasladaba al Instituto de Previsión para intervenir en el concierto (…) quedó la sesión compuesta port obras del estadounidense Gunther Schuler, el italiano Camillo Togni, el checo Peter Kolmann y el holandés Noam Sheriff.”
Other significant interpreters
Singers: Teresa Tourne, Meinrad Kraak, Jeanne Deroubaix, Elisabeth Grümmer, Ileana Melita, Angeles Chamorro, J.N. Dent-Young, Jose M. Seoane, Jose A. Leon, Julio Catania, Antonio Campö, I. Penagos, J.M. Higuero.
Piano: Tadashi Kitagawa, Vivian Troon, Carmen Diez Martin, Alicia de Larrocha, Rene Koering.
Violin: Jose Fernandez, Augustin Leon Ara.
Viola: Serge Collot.
Harp: Ursula Holliger.
Flute: Jacques Castagnier.
Clarinet: Leocadio Parras, Keith Puddy, Jaroslav Jakoubek, Frantisek Griglak.
Ensembles: Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Orchestras and Choruses: Orquesta Sinfönica de la R.T. Espanola, Coro de Radio Nacional de Espana, Coral de Camara «Tomas Luis de Victoria» del C.E. de N.P., Orquesta Nacional de Espana, Orquesta Filharmonica de Madrid.
Conductors: Jose Maria Franco Gil, Heinz Holliger, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
Sources
? Antonio Fernández Cid, “Informaciones,” Madrid, 27 May 1965 (excerpt cited online, in Spanish).
Anton Haefeli, Die Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM), Ihre Geschichte von 1922 bis zur Gegenwart (Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, 1982), pp. 523-524 (in German).
Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, Sixth Edition edited by Laura Kuhn (Schirmer Reference, 2001), pp. 589-591.
(annotated by Frank J. Oteri, in progress)