Dream House Quartet

Bryce Dessner (The National) returns to the Romaeuropa Festival with the Dream House Quartet project, created together with pianist sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque and David Chalmin. After the success of Minimalist dream house quartet (presented by REF 2019), this new live includes latest compositions by Dessner and Chalmin, as well as music by Philip Glass, Meredith Monk and an unreleased  premiere by Icelandic composer Anna Thorsvalsdottir.

PROGRAM

PHILIP GLASS
Les Enfants Terribles
arrangement Michael Riesman

Ouverture / Paul is Dying* / The Somnambulist / She Slapped me / They lived their dream / Terrible interlude
Cocoon of Shawls / Lost / Are you in Love / Agathe / She took the Path / Paul’s End

interval

ANNA THORSVALSDOTTIR 
What Things Become Italian premiere quartet

MEREDITH MONK 
Ellis Island (quartet)

BRYCE DESSNER
New song world premiere

DAVID CHALMIN
ECLIPSE world premiere quartet

BRYCE DESSNER 
CLOUDS Italian premiere quartet