György Ligeti:
Musica Ricercata:
I. Sostenuto - Misurato - Prestissimo
II. Mesto, rigido e ceremoniale
III. Allegro con spirito
IV. Tempo di valse (poco vivace - “a l’orgue de Barbarie”)
V. Rubato. Lamentoso
VI. Allegro molto capriccioso
VII. Cantabile, molto legato
VIII. Vivace. Energico
IX. Adagio. Mesto
X. Vivace. Capriccioso
XI. Andante misurato e tranquillo (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi)

Brecht Valckenaers:
Rhythm Studies:
I. Distorting Time
II. A Bit Drunk
III. Distorting Mirror
IV. Mixed Feelings
V. Chaconne des Cloches

Helmut Lachenmann:
Ein Kinderspiel:
I. Hänschen klein
VI. Glockenturm

Henry Cowell:
Irish Legends III. The Voice of Lir

Béla Bartók:
Out of Doors IV. The Night’s Music

György Kurtág:
Játékok, Book V Bell-fanfare for Sándor Veress

George Crumb:
Makrokosmos, Book II:
III. Rain-Death Variations (Pisces)
IV. Twin Suns (Gemini)

Ex Nihilo brings together a diverse palette of music into one continuous flow. Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata forms the spine of the program, interwoven with 20th-century works that resonate with it and new interludes by Brecht Valckenaers. Together, they trace a lineage of invention exploring how composers reimagine their musical language and the piano itself ex nihilo, “from nothing.”