Macabre

Each note is finite — and therefore alive.

This recital is shaped by Martin Heidegger’s concept of Sein-zum-Tode (Being-towards-Death) from Being and Time (1962). It names a mode of existence in which the awareness of death is not an endpoint, but a defining condition of life itself. Through the experience of others’ deaths, the self is awakened to dread, and gradually comes to anticipate its own death — not as an abstract event, but as the horizon that gives one’s life its singular urgency.

Programme

György Ligeti: Musica ricercata (1953) 

I. Sostenuto — Misurato — Prestissimo

II.  Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale — Più mosso, pesante — Tempo I

III. Allegro con spirito

IV. Tempo di valse (poco vivace - „à l'orgue de Barbarie“)

V. Rubato. Lamentoso — Più mosso, non rubato — Tempo I

VI. Allegro molto capriccioso

VII. Cantabile, molto legaeto

VIII. Vivace. Energico

IX. (Béla Bartók in memoriam) Adagio. Mesto — Allgero maestoso — Tempo I. Mesto

X. Vivace. Capriccioso

XI. (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo 

Franz Liszt: Nuages gris, S 199

Franz Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S 173

7. Funérailles

Franz Liszt: Csárdás macabre, S 224

Alexander Scriabin: Sonata no. 9, Op. 68, 'Black Mass'

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