Performances of Faust, or The Decline of Western Music

Opera for Solo Piano

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

15:00, Thursday 24 November 2011
Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate
HD1 3DH Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) continues his ongoing project “The Norwegian Opra” with a new work for Mark Knoop. Acknowledging the precedents of Marlowe, Goethe and Thomas Mann, Faust describes a Modernist-Faustian apocalypse leading to a decadent (but necessary) theatricalisation of the contemporary piano sonata. Only theory can help us now.

Book via the hcmf// website (external link).

Last Breath

Borealis Festival

18:00, Sunday 18 March 2012
Hotel Gran Terminus (external link)
Zander Kaaesgate 6
5015 Bergen
Norway

There’s an austere but nonetheless outrageously delinquent humour to much of Reinholdtsen (external link)’s work, which hits home with greater impact than most attempts to deal seriously with the possibilities and limitations of art and the people who make it. But in presenting Faust, or the Decline of Western Music, is Borealis all but calling in the bailiffs? Will music’s decline inevitably precede its fall?

Faust

The Well-Tempered Everyday: Vinterlydfestivalen

21:00, Friday 1 March 2013
Levinsalen, Norges musikkhøgskole (external link)
Slemdalsveien 11
0302 Oslo
Norway

Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) continues his ongoing project “The Norwegian Opra” with a work for Mark Knoop. Acknowledging the precedents of Marlowe, Goethe and Thomas Mann, Faust describes a Modernist-Faustian apocalypse leading to a decadent (but necessary) theatricalisation of the contemporary piano sonata. Only theory can help us now.

Faust

London Ear Festival

21:00, Saturday 23 March 2013
The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Road
SE1 8JT London
United Kingdom

Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) continues his ongoing project “The Norwegian Opra” with a work for Mark Knoop. Acknowledging the precedents of Marlowe, Goethe and Thomas Mann, Faust describes a Modernist-Faustian apocalypse leading to a decadent (but necessary) theatricalisation of the contemporary piano sonata. Only theory can help us now.

Faust

pgnm

18:00, Saturday 22 November 2014
Hochschule für Künste (external link)
Dechanatstraße 13-15
28195 Bremen
Germany

The second concert in pgnm’s 18th festival features Ensemble MAM (external link) and Mark Knoop.