PluralEnsemble at the Cuenca Religious Music Week

Songs of the Soul at Peace

The Sacred in Music and Nature

Programme

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, arrangement by GYÖRGY KURTÁG, 1998

Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (BWV 614)

(Video of György Kurtág and Márta Kurtág performing piano four hands, courtesy of Budapest Music Center)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, arrangement by Vladimir Tarnopolski, 2022

Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (BWV 614)

JESÚS VILLA ROJO (b. 1940)

Songs of the Soul (2026)

(World premiere. Commissioned by the 63rd Cuenca Religious Music Week)

BRUNO DOZZA (b. 1962)

Euridice, scena drammatica (2018)

FABIÁN PANISELLO (b. 1963)

Change (2024–2025)

Semi-staged play for baritone, Noh voice, ensemble and electronics

(World premiere)

(Change is a commission from the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the Academy of Arts in Berlin for Kontakte Festival 2027, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.)

Jacqueline Butzinge, electroacoustic design
Alexis Baskind, advisor

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, arrangement by Anton Webern, 1934

Ricercar a 6 (BWV 1079)

Performers

Fabián Panisello, conductor

Celia Alcedo, soprano
Carlos Mena, countertenor
Andreas Jankowitsch, bass-baritone
Ryoko Aoki, Noh voice

PluralEnsemble

Sofía Salazar, flute
Ana Ruiz, oboe
Vicente Fernández, oboe
Antonio Lapaz, clarinet
Justo Sanz, clarinet
Juan Carlos Paredes, bassoon
Jessica Rueda, horn
Andrés Felipe Estrada, trumpet
Fabián Llacér, trombone
Eloy Lurueña, percussion
Pablo Mor, percussion
Jimena Eisele Farag, harp
Nikola Tanaskovich, accordion
Duncan Gifford, piano
Biel Comas, electric guitar
Pablo Martín Acevedo, violin
Slava Chirkunov, violin
Ana María Alonso, viola
Abel Nafee Rosch, viola
David Apellaniz, cello
Tom Mahoney, double bass

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