Keywords: Symphony Concert
| Noa Wildschut | Violin |
| Mariangela Vacatello | Piano |
| IRCAM | Live-Elektronik |
| WDR Sinfonieorchester | |
| Ilan Volkov | Director |
| Beat Furrer | Konzert |
| Marco Momi | Kinderszenen |
| Bernd Alois Zimmerman | Sinfonie in einem Satz |
These events are similar in terms of concept, place, musicians or the program.
German premiere.
Johannes Maria Staud's drum concerto for Christoph Sietzen, portrait artist of the 2024/2025 season, captures the shimmer of reality. A highly virtuosic pleasure on sought-after and found instruments, from drums to flowerpots. The protagonists in Gordon Kampe's "Lyrical Symphony" are "delighted to devour": inhumanly heightened desire dominates the music. Nicolas A. Huber devotes himself to the perfection of the number 4.
Exceptionally talented violinist Arabella Steinbacher inspired Luxembourgish composer Georges Lentz to create an ethereal violin concerto. Its sound expands within the Philharmonie like starlight under the Australian Outback sky, Lentz's compositional setting. Olga Neuwirth's orchestral piece "Masaot" delves into memories and associations: music as both home and foreign land. Georges Aperghis' Etude No. 8 ignites a celebration of orchestral virtuosity.
German premiere.
A celebratory concert honoring Pierre Boulez, born March 26, 1925, and his impactful musical legacy. Featuring his magnum opus, "Pli selon pli," a sonic portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé, performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra with soprano Magali Simard-Galdès and Jonathan Nott. The concert includes a Boulez homage by Olga Neuwirth and the German premiere of "Dialogue de l'ombre double" for recorder and tape.
Writer Händl Klaus and composer Hèctor Parra present "A Song of the Earth" for our time. Olivia and Bruno journey through a desolate landscape, their sung and spoken words forming a dialogue about loss, love, and life. Kaija Saariaho's clarinet concerto, inspired by medieval tapestries, features a soloist who metaphorically "walks" through the concert hall. The WDR will broadcast the concert on June 3, 2025, with online availability for 30 days thereafter.
How does spirit enter sacred music, Mr. Lauster? Not only sacred works are ingenious, inspire, and uplift. We readily attribute "spirit" to musical phenomena, to the inexplicable in art and other areas of existence. When is this justified and when not? Is the invisible phenomenon of sound, music, particularly predestined as a dwelling place of spirit and spirits? Myths, not only from the Christian cultural sphere, suggest this. The Protestant theologian Jörg Lauster, holder of the Chair of Dogmatics, Philosophy of Religion, and Ecumenism in Munich and author of fundamental books on Christianity, has dedicated a "biography" to the Holy Spirit and traces the "enchantment of the world" through art and culture.
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