Matthew Aucoin: Three Études

Tristan Murail: Territoires de l'oubli

Tickets: $15 General. Available at the door, day of the concert. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Reception follows.

This concert is the final event of Spectrum's Further Complications Festival.

"Territoires de l’Oubli (‘Territories of Oblivion’) is a sprawling work written in 1977, built on the natural harmonic resonance of the piano. The work is a paradox, seeming for long periods locked in place, while in constant motion, transitioning imperceptibly from section to section. At times repeated patterns stand like statues, vast and cold in the central register of the piano while harmonies broil above and below. At others, only the extremes of the instrument are used, low and high passages rumbling and flashing. The ending uses a trick of physics to achieve incredible beauty, the final note pulsing gently as it fades. Kigawa’s playing was impressive – it had to be – but as extraordinary as it was to watch his fingers dance across the rapid, complex passages, the delicacy of his playing was even more striking. In quiet moments, he summoned the merest ghosts of notes, tiny pinpricks just a half-step above silence." - Brendan Finan, The Journal of Music, IRELAND