In Bons’s new work there is no star soloist, but all the musicians are protagonists and equals: they enter into dialogue with each other. The focus is on their interaction and the unprecedented total and mixture sounds that can be realized with this combination. I now hope to be able to realize something I could only dream of before.
Program
- Joël Bons – Green Dragon (2012)
- Interludes for pipa, tar, ud, qanun, cimbalom, zheng, erhu’s, kamancha, kemençe, sarangi and other instruments
- Bons – New work for stringed instruments (premiere)Players Atlas EnsembleFu Xixu, pipa
Elcin Nagijev, tar
Yasamin Shahhoseini, ud
Bassem Alkouri, qanun
Dani Luca, cimbalom
Li Liangzi, zheng
Yan Jiemin, erhu
Peng Cheng, erhu
Elshan Mansurov, kamancha
Angel Gimeno, violin
Neva Özgen, kemençe
Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir, viola
Yuji Nakagawa, sarangi
Lidy Blijdorp, cello
Dario Calderone, double bass