
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
Foto © JONATHAN MCCALLUM