Sinfonieorchester Basel
Ivor Bolton, Leitung
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violine
Helena Winkelman, Violine

Konzertaufnahme vom 9./10. September 2020, Stadtcasino Basel (Uraufführung)
Auftragswerk des Sinfonieorchesters Basel
Musikregie / Tonmeister: Ueli Würth (SRF)

1. Satz:
- Universes apart
- Quarks (particles moving in perfect symmetry)
- Magnets (the laws of attraction)
- Binary stars (two suns swinging)

2. Satz:
- Let’s get drunk together (Strawinsky to Djagilew)
- Tête à tête (begin of the romance)
- ... In the eye of the beholder ... (beauty that is)
- Parallel parking

3. Satz:
- Battleships (or: how to sink your orchestra)
- Partners in crime (bears that love to kill)
- Horsing around (quasi cadenza)
- Cutting to the chase (a Finnish-Moldavian-Swiss quodlibet)