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Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)
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For more than six decades, the chamber concerts by musicians from the Staatskapelle have been a constant feature of the Staatsoper programme. This season, ensembles have come together to select music from different periods, styles and cultures under the theme of ‘playing together’. On eleven dates in the Apollosaal, which with its special atmosphere is an ideal venue for chamber music and communicative interaction between players and listeners, works from the Baroque to the present day will be performed in constellations that are both exciting and harmonious, in which tangible contrasts play just as important a role as a common resonance and the balancing of opposites.
harles Ives occasionally wrote songs that manage without a human voice – singers made such a fuss, he felt, he would replace them with a solo instrument. However, in the pieces chosen by Anna Prohaska and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the voice will take the leading role. Ives’s songs work with a broad palette of themes, wandering from childhood dreams to industrialisation, from criticism of society to autumn moods. They are contrasted with songs by Debussy and Strawinsky.
Music can draw pictures, express itself in movement and tell of emotions. Together with the sign actor Jan Sell, the RSB will present the music of Igor Stawinsky’s Petrushka in a very unique way.“Concert for All” is a model project in which the RSB designs offers that enable participation for deaf and hard-of-hearing people as well as people with cognitive impairments, in order to eventually integrate them permanently into the orchestra’s concert programme. During the four-year term of the project, methods and concepts are to be tested in close cooperation with associations, affected people and their relatives, pilot events are to be held and ultimately new, inclusive formats are to be created that meet the needs of the target groups and yet are open to all visitors.
Sir Andrew Davis has cancelled his participation in this concert for health reasons. We are delighted that we have been able to engage Martyn Brabbins for the concert.The concert will be broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on 28 March 2024 at 8.03 pm.