On 11 December, Anssi Karttunen will perform at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Together with the hr Radio Symphony Orchestra, he will play the solo part in the piece The Map by Tan Dun.

In his Concerto for Cello, Video and Orchestra, Tan Dun charts his own personal journey returning to the music roots of his homeland in the Chinese province of Hunan. The orchestra and the soloist enter into a dialogue with large video screens which show documentary field recordings of the rural music culture with its ancient traditions.

The composer, who will conduct his own piece in Frankfurt, comments: „I wanted to discover the counterpoint between different media, different time-spaces and different cultures. Metaphorically, the orchestra becomes nature, the soloist symbolizes people, and video represents tradition."


11/12/2008, 7.00pm
Alte Oper Frankfurt

hr-Sinfonieorchester
conductor: Tan Dun
Anssi Karttunen, cello

Programme:

Tan Dun	Water Concerto
	The Map, Concerto for Cello, Video and Orchestra

Further information: www.alteoper.de

The recording with Orchestre de Paris under the direction of Christopher Eschenbach featuring works by Kaija Saariaho received rave reviews and was listed in the Gramophone magazine's Editor's Choice.

"The slow unfolding of the solo line in the first movement of Notes on Light - a five movement cello concerto - has the simple inevitability you'd expect from that movement's subtitle: ‘Translucent, secret'. Anssi Karttunen is as impressive in this as he is in the strongly rhythmic music which the work also contains." (BBC Music Magazine)

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