Concerts with works by

Alfred Schnittke

Guest performance

Musikgymnasium C. Ph. E. Bach

A concert program featuring works by Emmanuel Séjourné (Marimba Concerto), Gordon Jacob (Bassoon Concerto), C.P.E. Bach (Cello Concerto in A major and Flute Concerto in D minor), Alfred Schnittke (Concerto Grosso No. 3), Giovanni Bottesini (Capriccio di Bravura for Double Bass), and Lars-Erik Larsson (Trombone Concertino).

Guest performance

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

Orchestral fireworks with early Shostakovich and Schnittke, joined by the London Symphony Chorus for some stirring Brahms.

Anna Vinnitskaya: A Piano Showcase

Pianist Anna Vinnitskaya owes her world career to her talent, skill, and love for music. Her teacher advised her to "play as you are." Now a professor, she happily shares her knowledge with the next generation. Vinnitskaya is offering her promising Hamburg piano students the opportunity to perform for the public in Essen.

Monday at Last with overtone singing

In Monday at Last, violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and cellist Kati Raitinen invite guest artists to perform both newer and older music. The guests this time are Swedish pianist Peter Friis Johansson and South African violist, composer, and overtone singer Gareth Lubbe.We get to hear the incredible possibilities and resources of the voice in Lubbe's Miniatures, where he uses a special singing technique to create a whole range of resonant overtones. It's a completely unique sound world that conveys the feeling of something magical and primal.British-American composer Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979) was a highly skilled violist and a pioneer among female composers. Her Morpheus for viola and piano was first performed in 1918 at Carnegie Hall and was her first major success. After Schnittke's both wild and contemplative string trio, and Mozart's lively Duo, "Finally Monday" concludes with the rarely performed ecstatically charged piano quartet by Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä in a late romantic style.

Volodia Van Keulen & Christelle Abinasr KALÉIDOSCOPE

RIAS Kammerchor Berlin - Freitag ¾ sechs

The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin has always commissioned and premiered new works. This season, they welcome British composer Alec Roth as their first Composer in Residence. His works will be performed throughout the season. He will also coach young composers in a workshop and compose a new piece to be premiered in this concert.

NDR Chamber Music Concert / Elphier-Quartett

Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet in C minor is one of the composers most personal works. There are striking allusions to Wagner’s »Götterdämmerung« and Tchaikovsky’s confessional symphony »Pathétique«. But Shostakovich also immortalised himself, with themes from earlier works as well as the musical code D-Es-C-H. The piece was composed in 1960 during a visit to Dresden, which was destroyed in 1945. The horrors of the destruction shocked Shostakovich so much that he dedicated the quartet to the victims of war and fascism.

Guest performance