Science, Talk and Music

Late Night Music for the movie “All the beauty and the bloodshed”

Amidst an exhibition of works by the famous American photographer Nan Goldin, you can hear the music for the film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras), which focuses on Goldin’s fight against the USA’s opioid crisis.How to find us, address and more

Biennale »Paradise lost?« Debussy’s “La Mer” and Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Sky, sea and light permeate this concert, in which Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska makes her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Jean Sibelius transports us to the historical Finland of legend with his dramatic tone poem Pohjola’s Daughter, while Kaija Saariaho’s Orion describes the astrological constellation in numinous music. The concert will also include Edvard Grieg’s piano concerto, which its echoes of Norwegian folk music, and Claude Debussy’s shimmering tone poem La Mer. The soloist is pianist Jean-Fréderic Neuburger.

Biennale »Paradise lost?« Debussy’s “La Mer” and Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Sky, sea and light permeate this concert, in which Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska makes her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Jean Sibelius transports us to the historical Finland of legend with his dramatic tone poem Pohjola’s Daughter, while Kaija Saariaho’s Orion describes the astrological constellation in numinous music. The concert will also include Edvard Grieg’s piano concerto, which its echoes of Norwegian folk music, and Claude Debussy’s shimmering tone poem La Mer. The soloist is pianist Jean-Fréderic Neuburger.

Biennale »Paradise lost?« Debussy’s “La Mer” and Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Sky, sea and light permeate this concert, in which Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska makes her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Jean Sibelius transports us to the historical Finland of legend with his dramatic tone poem Pohjola’s Daughter, while Kaija Saariaho’s Orion describes the astrological constellation in numinous music. The concert will also include Edvard Grieg’s piano concerto, which its echoes of Norwegian folk music, and Claude Debussy’s shimmering tone poem La Mer. The soloist is pianist Jean-Fréderic Neuburger.

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›Music and Crime‹ I

In the successful ›ZEIT Verbrechen‹ podcast, Sabine Rückert (publisher of the magazine ZEIT VERBRECHEN) und Andreas Sentker (Managing editor of DIE ZEIT, publisher of the magazine ZEIT WISSEN) talk about unbelievable, exciting, scary, and absurd crimes. In the ›Music and Crime‹ concert series, they now bring their fascinating crime stories live to the stage in the Haus des Rundfunks broadcasting centre. Chamber music ensembles of the DSO provide the appropriate music.

›Music and Crime‹ II

In the successful ›ZEIT Verbrechen‹ podcast, Sabine Rückert (publisher of the magazine ZEIT VERBRECHEN) und Andreas Sentker (Managing editor of DIE ZEIT, publisher of the magazine ZEIT WISSEN) talk about unbelievable, exciting, scary, and absurd crimes. In the ›Music and Crime‹ concert series, they now bring their fascinating crime stories live to the stage in the Haus des Rundfunks broadcasting centre. Chamber music ensembles of the DSO provide the appropriate music.

“Tipping Points. Fourteen ways to describe climate change”

Gentle drizzling, vigorous splashing, thunderous drumming – rain comes in many guises. Hanns Eisler’s 1941 film score Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain was one of his best chamber music works. Today, in the face of accelerating climate change, weather patterns take on a whole new urgency. Inspired by Eisler, Gregor Mayrhofer explores these phenomena in his composition Tipping Points. Fourteen ways to describe climate change, a commissioned work which will be premiered as part of our Biennale, explores pivotal moments for our climate. The physicist and science journalist Harald Lesch will host this dialogue concert.

Film screening “Suites4nature”

The German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff plays J.S. Bach’s cello suites no. 4 to 6 – in the midst of wounded nature scarred by climate change. A musically and visually moving plea for more mindfulness and humility towards the beauty of our planet. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Tanja Tetzlaff and Heinz von Loesch. How to find us, address and more

Biennale »Paradise lost?« “The Four Seasons” with the Freiburger Barockorchester