Browse through selected performances below, or find the full festival programme here.
7 June / Basel Sinfonietta: Opening Concert
The opening concert on Friday 7 June is performed by Basel Sinfonietta, and the programme includes the world premiere of the work F-Low-M, by Ylva Lund Bergner commissioned by Klang Festival. Ylva Lund Bergner often draws on inspiration from various elements of nature, and her new work explores the interaction between the wind and the trees.
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9 June / Athelas Sinfonietta: Anniversary Concert
Klang celebrates the festival's 15 year anniversary together with Athelas Sinfonietta. The anniversary concert promises a true celebration of the wildness and vulnerability that the composers (and musicians) have shown over the past 15 years. The programme is curated in collaboration with the organisation Second Sound, and consists of pieces that were all premiered by Athelas Sinfonietta within the past 15 years. This includes Mette Nielsen's meditative and mournful Song I used to sing to the machines and Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki's Hiding for Rosetta – a work that turns ideas of professionalism upside down as the bassoonist becomes clarinet soloist.
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11 June / Christian Winther Christensen/Ensemble Ascolta: Children’s Songs
Christian Winther Christensen's work Children's Songs, written for the German Ensemble Ascolta, revolves around a child's universe. Kitschy little figures and quotes from the world of children's music - a world that has taken on a multitude of different forms throughout the history of music - as well as interpretations of the wondrous sounds that arise when children interact with toys have shaped this intense, magical work for seven musicians and a radio.