The Treasure Hunt with Bas Wiegers

Sycorax, a new opera!

Discovering the building stones of Sycorax, the new opera by Georg Friedrich Haas. We hear some Haas, some Grisey, some Vivier, some Tibetan throat singers, and a wonderful Jubilate. 
 
G.F. Haas - Limited Approximations - SWR Sinfonieorchester and Sylvain Cambreling 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoqvGLdjUhE&t=1540s
Gérard Grisey - Partiels - Asko Ensemble and Stefan Asbury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v7onrjN6RE&t=30s
Claude Vivier - Lonely Child - AskoSchoenberg and Reinbert de Leeuw 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP23EnBQjw8
G.F. Haas - String Quartet no 9 - Jack Quartet 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_2bg3utv8&t=409s
W.A. Mozart - Exsultate, Jubilate - Julia Lezhneva and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLan_H8w8S4
W.A. Mozart - Ach, ich fühl's by - Christiane Oelze, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg96zrTe_jY
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Prologue

The Treasure Hunt, a personal account by conductor Bas Wiegers about how a musical score functions as a treasure map and leads to a concert. Also an upbeat to the next episode, where I will tell you more about Sycorax, a new opera by Georg Friedrich Haas, opening at the Bern opera house in September 2022. 
 
Mirela Ivicevic - Black Moon Lilith - RSB Berlin, Bas Wiegers 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unJRA38yvX8
Georg Friedrich Haas - in vain - Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUfLkc_Smvg
W.A. Mozart - Symphony no 40 - Concentus Musicus, Nicolaus Harnoncourt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5iVnSBOz6w