Eleven orchestras make a strong case for current work
More than 33,000 listeners by 2016 for a new repertoire of symphonic works by Swiss composers - this is the goal of the "Œuvres Suisses" project, which was launched on December 12, 2013 at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano.
New Swiss orchestral works are therefore to be created in order to improve collaboration between contemporary composers and symphony orchestras. This centuries-old connection, the backbone of European music history, seems to have been in a serious crisis for at least thirty years. Not a single composition written after 1980 has been included in the repertoire of symphony orchestras or, as equivalent works to those of Ravel, Brahms, Beethoven or Mozart, regularly included in concert programs around the world.
However, this does not mean that no new compositions have been written in the meantime. On the contrary, we have become acquainted with numerous and valuable new works that have been appreciated by critics and audiences alike. The fact is, however, that it has not been possible to integrate these pieces into the repertoire, and this inevitably leads to the question: can symphony orchestras still make their contribution to new symphonic music-making in Switzerland today?
33 new orchestral works
