Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

The performance, conducted by artistic director Jörg Widmann, is dedicated to Wolfgang Rihm, who died in 2024 and who shaped the Lucerne Festival Academy as its artistic director and the Musikfest Berlin with his works over many years.

Tutuguri occupies a unique position in Wolfgang Rihm's extremely prolific oeuvre. In no other work does the composer unleash such unbridled elemental forces; nowhere else does rhythm and impressive percussion take center stage as much as in this score, the last part of which is performed solely by six solo percussionists—accompanied by a choir played over loudspeakers.

Program

Wolfgang Rihm (1952–2024)
Tutuguri (1980–82)
Poème dansé
for large orchestra, percussionists, choir from tape, and narrator
based on the poem Tutuguri from the radio play Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu by Antonin Artaud
Concert performance

I. Scene (Invocation ... the black hole ...)
II. Scene (black and red dances ... the horse ...)
Scene III (the peyote dance … the last sun … the screaming man …)
Scene IV (crosses … the horseshoe … the six men … the seventh …)

Performers

• Michael Engelhardt – narrator
  
• N. N. – solo percussionist I–VI
  
• Maxime Le Saux – sound engineer
  
• Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
  
• Jörg Widmann – conductor
  

Introductory event: 6:10 p.m., South Foyer
Approximately 2 hours 30 minutes, including intermission

• An event of the Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin