David Philip Hefti’s “Media nox” at the ARD Radio Festival (August 2019)
On 13 August 2019, the recording of the world premier of David Philip Hefti’s flute concerto Media nox – Music for the third nocturnal vigil will be broadcast at the ARD Radio Festival. The world premier took place on 3 April 2019 at the Heidelbergre Frühling Festival and was performed by the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie under Jamie Phillips and withTatjana Ruhland as soloist.
David Philip Hefti about Media nox:
„The harmonies of this work are primarily quarter-tone, and explore the sounds of twilight, the night, spheres, dreams, sleeplessness and hallucinations. They create sound-surfaces alternately static, animated and iridescent that are the central idea of the work; these are then repeatedly roughened up by the rhythmic and melodic threads woven by the solo flute. This microtonal music is what I repeatedly here in the twilight state between sleep and sleeplessness.“
You can find more information on the broadcast here.
The new CD by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will be released on 23 August 2019.