Rebecca Saunders: Quartet, Into the Blue, Molly's Song 3 & Dichroic Seventeen

Featuring

Stefan Asbury
Ulrich Löffler
Nándor Götz
Anne Hofmann
Teodoro Anzellotti
Helen Bledsoe

Dominica Eyckmans
Seth Josel
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Rebecca Saunders

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Saunders finds inspiration in Gertrude Stein's novel "Ida," which breaks traditional narrative categories to focus on individual moments and the 'being thus' of characters.

Compositional Technique

Rebecca Saunders' compositional process begins with exploring sound potentials, often reducing and condensing material to find its 'essence,' and working closely with musicians.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Rebecca Saunders' music rejects the Western idea of logical development, focusing instead on 'conditions of being' and the physical presence of sounds.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Rebecca Saunders often uses extra-musical metaphors, particularly colors, to hint at the aura of her music without analytically explaining its content.

Composer's Artistic Vision

For a time, red was Rebecca Saunders' favorite color, inspiring titles like "Vermillion" and "cinnabar," and representing positive aggression and vital energy.

Composer Biography

Rebecca Saunders, born in London in 1967, studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm and Nigel Osborne, and now lives in Berlin.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Later, Rebecca Saunders was drawn to mystical blue, inspired by Derek Jarman's book "Chroma," which she used to bring a new sensibility into her music.