Keywords: Chamber Music
| Quatuor Diotima | String quartet |
| Musiker*innen des Gürzenich-Orchesters |
| String sextet from Capriccio op. 85 (1941) | Richard Strauss |
| Metamorphoses for string sextet (1945) | Richard Strauss |
| Octet in F major D 803 (1824) | Franz Schubert |
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Chamber of Lights is a chamber orchestra based in Berlin. From Romantic duo recitals to a 24-strong Baroque orchestra, the ensemble is extremely flexible – so too at the Laeiszhalle. For Vivaldi’s »Four Seasons«, violinist Igor Budinstein supports Chamber of Lights.
In everyday life, the city is more than just a background, a collective experiment in the social laboratory, a place for life and stories, for memories and longing: Ensemble Resonanz accompanies Copland to nighttime New York, and Tchaikovsky to an Italian summer; it lets Vito Zuraij serve up a surprise or two, then travels on to Rome and joins forces with Vivier to look behind the scenes at ourselves and at a foreign environment. A melancholy trumpet tune rises from the nocturnal solitude, gently underscored by shimmering strings, and fantasises about people’s nighttime thoughts in a city that never sleeps. This concert opens with Aaron Copland’s ode to New York »Quiet Cities«, which captures the feeling of space and the American spirit even in this huge metropolis. By way of contrast, Claude Vivier immerses himself in the sphere of mystery and longing with a work at once accessible and yet enigmatic, full of free-floating melodies that bring to life recollections of foreign places, people and musical traditions. In his »Souvenir de Florence«, Tchaikovsky blends his personal memories of an Italian summer with Russian folk music, while Ensemble Resonanz combines Tchaikovsky with Andrew Norman’s »Companion Guide to Rome«, each part of which consists of a study of Roman buildings. Can floor decoration be audible? Can music be turned into wallpaper?
In everyday life, the city is more than just a background, a collective experiment in the social laboratory, a place for life and stories, for memories and longing: Ensemble Resonanz accompanies Copland to nighttime New York, and Tchaikovsky to an Italian summer; it lets Vito Zuraij serve up a surprise or two, then travels on to Rome and joins forces with Vivier to look behind the scenes at ourselves and at a foreign environment. A melancholy trumpet tune rises from the nocturnal solitude, gently underscored by shimmering strings, and fantasises about people’s nighttime thoughts in a city that never sleeps. This concert opens with Aaron Copland’s ode to New York »Quiet Cities«, which captures the feeling of space and the American spirit even in this huge metropolis. By way of contrast, Claude Vivier immerses himself in the sphere of mystery and longing with a work at once accessible and yet enigmatic, full of free-floating melodies that bring to life recollections of foreign places, people and musical traditions. In his »Souvenir de Florence«, Tchaikovsky blends his personal memories of an Italian summer with Russian folk music, while Ensemble Resonanz combines Tchaikovsky with Andrew Norman’s »Companion Guide to Rome«, each part of which consists of a study of Roman buildings. Can floor decoration be audible? Can music be turned into wallpaper?
Violinist Angelika Bachmann from Salut Salon and pianist Professor Jacques Ammon invite you to the annual children’s concert in the Grand Hall of Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle. The outstanding young prizewinners of the Hamburg Instrumental Competition will perform. The virtuoso skills of the children and young people, the varied programme, the grand joint finale and the loving concert atmosphere make the children’s concert unique every year. Prof Walter Gehlert first invited prizewinners of the Hamburg Instrumental Competition to play on the big stage in 1983. Since then, a good 3,000 young instrumentalists have been able to gain memorable performance experience.
In his late work, Luigi Nono always also transformed the music into moving ambient sound. To achieve that, he regularly worked with the legendary SWR Experimentalstudio. One example is his vocal and instrumental work »Diario polacco No. 2«, in which electronic sounds permeate the hall. His work »›Hay que caminar‹ sognando«, in contrast, features two violinists wandering from one music desk to the next. Under conductor Léo Warynski, the Les Métaboles vocal ensemble and the SWR Experimentalstudio remember Nono the political man. When martial law was introduced in Poland in 1981 he wrote »Quando stanno morendo / Diario polacco No. 2« and dedicated it to persecuted Polish friends and comrades. Nono composed »›Hay que caminar‹ sognando« in 1989, one year before his death. With its »choreographic« arrangement, it epitomises an inscription, seen on a monastery wall, that had fascinated Nono: »Wanderer, there is no path. All that matters is the walking.«
A story about friendship and betrayal, violence and denunciation, crucifixion and violent death. Ensemble Resonanz dives into the heated events of Bach’s St John Passion and presents its own, intimate version with a chamber-music line-up. The notes remain unchanged, but there is no turba choir. Instead, a guitar and electronic continuo head off together on spheric forays.
The Neue Philharmonie Hamburg was founded in 2003 and is made up of freelance professional musicians from all over the world. Its artistic portfolio focuses on symphonic music from the Baroque to the Modern periods. In addition, the Neue Philharmonie Hamburg also regularly appears in smaller formations, such as chamber music ensembles.
What could be nicer than escaping everyday life for a moment to listen to music and sing together? In the »Klangzeit« format (formerly »Ferne Klänge«), you can experience music in an informal and particularly intimate way. The concert featuring the string players of Ensemble Resonanz is aimed at anyone who would like to experience live music in an unconventional way. In the entertaining, approximately half-hour-long concerts, you can let yourself be carried away by familiar songs in a relaxed atmosphere, listen to new things, chat, sing along and move freely. Here, everyone can be who they are. Many »Klangzeit« events take place in various Hamburg neighbourhoods outside of the inner city. This keeps distances short for those who like to experience something special close to home.
What could be nicer than escaping everyday life for a moment to listen to music and sing together? In the »Klangzeit« format (formerly »Ferne Klänge«), you can experience music in an informal and particularly intimate way. The concert featuring the string players of Ensemble Resonanz is aimed at anyone who would like to experience live music in an unconventional way. In the entertaining, approximately half-hour-long concerts, you can let yourself be carried away by familiar songs in a relaxed atmosphere, listen to new things, chat, sing along and move freely. Here, everyone can be who they are. Many »Klangzeit« events take place in various Hamburg neighbourhoods outside of the inner city. This keeps distances short for those who like to experience something special close to home.
What could be nicer than escaping everyday life for a moment to listen to music and sing together? In the »Klangzeit« format (formerly »Ferne Klänge«), you can experience music in an informal and particularly intimate way. The concert featuring the string players of Ensemble Resonanz is aimed at anyone who would like to experience live music in an unconventional way. In the entertaining, approximately half-hour-long concerts, you can let yourself be carried away by familiar songs in a relaxed atmosphere, listen to new things, chat, sing along and move freely. Here, everyone can be who they are. Many »Klangzeit« events take place in various Hamburg neighbourhoods outside of the inner city. This keeps distances short for those who like to experience something special close to home.
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