The Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra and its new musical director Jörg Widmann bring an intensely impactful work to the Musikfest Berlin: Tutuguri by Wolfgang Rihm. The poème dansé activates a powerful battery of percussion and translates the “fevered pulse” of the eponymous poem by Antonin Artaud – which was inspired by the ritual Tutugúri dances of the indigenous people of northern Mexico, into captivating music.

Wolfgang Rihm (1952–2024)
Tutuguri (1980–82) 
Poème dansé based on the poem Tutuguri from the audio play Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu by Antonin Artaud  
for large orchestra, drums, taped choir and speaker 
concert performance 

I. Bild (Anrufung … das schwarze Loch …)
II. Bild (schwarze und rote Tänze … das Pferd …)
III. Bild (der Peyotl-Tanz … die letzte Sonne … der schreiende Mann …)
IV. Bild (Kreuze … das Hufeisen … die sechs Männer … der Siebte …)

Michael Engelhardt – speaker, dramaturgy
Glenn Choe, Bárbara Ribeiro, Christoph Sietzen, Miguel Llorente Gil, Michele Di Modugno, Efe Sağıroğluları – percussion group part II (IV. Bild)
Christoph Sietzen – percussion preparation part II (IV. Bild)

Markus Güdel – lighting design
Maxime Le Saux  – sound director
Nina Steinemann – costumes Michael Engelhardt
SWR Vokalensemble (recorded choir, choir master Rupert Huber)

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
Jörg Widmann – conductor