Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi

The Complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass

The piano etudes by Philip Glass are modern classics. 20 pieces, sometimes meditative, sometimes rhythmic, sometimes romantic. Music that is not complicated and yet difficult to play. The famous US composer has inspired artists from almost every genre. Now ten renowned pianists from all over the world will perform the 20 etudes in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall – something that has never been done before in this form in Germany. A spectacular evening and an entertaining journey into the beguiling world of Philip Glass are guaranteed.

Chillout Kammerkonsert Philip Glass Johann Sebastian Bach

Musikere fra Oslo-filharmonien inviterer deg til en avslappet og uformell konsert på Trekanten. Vi spiller med et lite orkester som fremfører minimalistisk musikk. Pust og mindfulness er kjent for å bringe oss til dypere ro og tilstedeværelse. Ved å berolige kropp og sinn med disse øvelsne, blir vi også mer mottakelig for sanseinntrykk og verden rundt oss. Dette gjelder spesielt for opplevelsen av musikk. Kanskje hører vi nye instrumenter eller dimensjoner av en låt, eller opplever de sterke følelsene musikken henter frem i oss. 15 minutter før konserten gir Fredrik Fernando Austad deg enkle øvelser som hjelper oss å legge bort stress fra hverdagen og komme tettere på musikken. Austad er puste-trener og terapeut fra To gutter som mediterer.Det er mulig å kjøpe noe å drikke i baren, sette seg i en lenestol og ta en pause fra en hektisk hverdag. Velkommen til en time med ro og harmoni der musikken fører deg inn i nye landskap!

Guest performance The Complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass

Adams Dessner Glass

Adams Dessner Glass

Concert de Midi et Demi avec Natsuki ABE, Solange ADAMSON et Philip RICHARDSON

Ensemble Resonanz & Guests

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.

Ensemble Resonanz / Véronique Gens / Riccardo Minasi

With his Fourth Symphony, Brahms left posterity an orchestral monolith, austere and monumental, the sum of his ability as a composer and an expression of radical tradition. In this concert, Brahms’s legacy is juxtaposed with dramatic atmosphere from Locatelli and with Berlioz’s unique piece about the death of Cleopatra, with soprano and Berlioz specialist Véronique Gens in the title role. In this programme the Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz combines three composers who broke rules and set standards: Pietro Antonio Locatelli, sometimes regarded as the Paganini of the 18th century, was a lover of effects and dramatic atmosphere taken from the wunderkammer of Baroque instrumental music. Hector Berlioz submitted his bold cantata about the death of Cleopatra for the Prix de Rome, but it was rejected as being too daring. The Symphony No. 4 in E minor is the last symphony from the pen of Johannes Brahms, the sum of his own resources as a composer, and of the entire history of Western composition. Picking up where Bach and Beethoven left off, Brahms recycles material from music history, combining tradition with ideas that are thoroughly innovative. Everything flows here from the outset; the music is a fabric where everything is in motion; all certainty is lost: the Fourth is a complex work that breaks through all manner of formal boundaries.

Hathor Consort / Dorothee Mields / Romina Lischka

What traces do wars leave on the music of the time? The Hathor Consort, a viol ensemble of to which harp, organ and cornett are added, joins forces with soprano Dorothee Mields to look for echoes of the Thirty Years’ War in the works of composers who witnessed this catastrophic period in European history. With his »Trostgedichten in Widerwertigkeit deß Kriegs«, the poet Martin Opitz wrote an influential treatise of edification in the midst of this fierce conflict that claimed the lives of around a third of the population. The composers of the age attempted to process the deep trauma of violence, hunger and utter defencelessness through their music. This programme brings together four musical witnesses of the time:Heinrich Schütz, Samuel Scheidt, Andreas Hammerschmidt and Heinrich Albert. The acclaimed Hathor Consort focuses mainly on Renaissance and Baroque music, but it regularly combines this with music from other cultures as well as with contemporary works. Dorothee Mields likewise focuses entirely on Early Music, and her clear and intimate soprano is regarded as one of today’s top voices in the field of historic performing practice.

Matthias Kirschnereit / Hamburger Kammerorchester / Christian Kunert

»Music is the universal language of mankind« – this quote from the American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow reflects the power and importance of music. Music connects people from different cultures and backgrounds and creates a common language. The Hamburg Chamber Orchestra’s innovative concert series »Music of the World« begins with a cycle of Mozart’s 23 piano concertos in several concerts.