Milica Djordjević: Mali Svitac, između dva treptaja

for orchestra (2023)^WP

^{Commissioned by SWR}

Turgut Erçetin: The phoneme between two words (b)

for baroque ensemble and large orchestra (2023)^WP

^{Commissioned by SWR and ELISION Ensemble}

Franck Bedrossian: Don Quixote Concerto. Memories of a knight erran

for a pianist, his assistant and orchestra (2021/22)^GP

^{Commissioned by SWR and the Philharmonie Luxembourg}

ELISION

Peter Veale, baroque oboe/Carl Rosman, baroque clarinet & chalumeau/James Aylward, baroque bassoon/Alex Waite, harpsichord

Christoph Grund, Piano

Jochen Schorer, Assistant and percussion

SWR Symphonieorchester

Conductor Brad Lubman

^{Live broadcast on SWR2 evening concert, 8:03 pm}

New instruments, new constellations: Turkish composer Turgut Erçetin’s idea of having four soloists specializing in new music play baroque instruments for the first time and then combining them with a classical-romantic orchestra is a bit crazy. It is not least about the friction that can arise when aspects from different eras and contexts come together. Cervantes’ literary hero Don Quixote also lives in a world that occasionally seems crazy, i.e. somehow displaced. Franck Bedrossian resurrects him as a pianist on an instrument that is percussively expanded and sometimes played by a percussionist Sancho Panza. And will new constellations also be found within the orchestra? Milica Djordjević goes in search of this. (Lydia Jeschke)