NEC New Music Ensemble: Ligeti, Li, Stravinsky, Villa-Lobos, Boulez, Piazzolla

NEC: Brown Hall | Directions

290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
United States

Inaugurated in Fall 2022, NEC's New Music Ensemble begins its second season with a program of works by Ligeti, Yuan-Chen Li, Stravinsky, Villa-Lobos, Boulez, and Piazzolla.  Hugh Wolff conducts.

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live

  1. György Ligeti | Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet

    Allegro con spirito
    Rubato: Lamentoso
    Allegro grazioso
    Presto ruvido
    Adagio: Mesto
    Molto vivace: Capriccioso

  2. Yuan-Chen Li | Butterfly

    The Butterfly
    Springtime
    Reflection

  3. Igor Stravinsky | Octet (1923)

    Sinfonia: Lento - Allegro moderato
    Tema con variazioni: Andantino
    Finale

  4. INTERMISSION

  5. Heitor Villa-Lobos | Bachianas brasileiras No. 5

    Ária (Cantilena)
    Dança (Martelo)

  6. Pierre Boulez | Messagesquisse

  7. Astor Piazzolla (arr. James Barralet) | from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

    3.  Winter in Buenos Aires
    4. Spring in Buenos Aires

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