{"id":1133,"date":"2021-03-25T15:35:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flexensemble.com\/x-impuls\/x-impuls-program\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T16:36:12","slug":"x-impuls-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flexensemble.com\/en\/x-impuls\/x-impuls-program\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d7 ImPULS Program"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#efefef” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”60″ constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”60″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

FARFAROUT – How fast do I travel when I sit still?<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Inspired by the discovery of a new, distant object in space known as 2018AG37 and nicknamed FARFAROUT, Flex Ensemble joins forces with Farout Artistic Research – a Spanish group of performative researchers and artists* – for an interdisciplinary art project. FARFAROUT combines music, dance, and the science of astronomy as well as audience interaction and research dialogue.
\nPerformed by the Hanoverian piano quartet and two dancers, the audience becomes part of a production that invites reflection on concepts such as movement, distance, perception, and spatiality. Alongside world premieres by Sergio Luque and Gordon Williamson, works by Y\u016bji Takahashi and Morton Feldman accompany this collaborative exploration of spatial sound. The performance will be framed by an introduction by astronomer Dr. Francisco Colomer (director of the JIVE Institute) and a conversation with all participants to provide a deeper insight into the artistic-scientific idea behind FARFAROUT.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awuX3VFus7E”][vc_column_text]Farfarout was selected for the V Certamen de Creaci\u00f3n Art\u00edstica of Pamplona and with the Innova Cultural Award 2021 of Fundaci\u00f3n La Caixa & Fundaci\u00f3n Caja Navarra.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ bottom_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

IN\/SOMNIA<\/h2>\n

A multimedia performance about an often repressed third of our lives.<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-rNYwkWe9qw” css=”.vc_custom_1664917034217{margin-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column_text]\n

\u201eHaupts\u00e4chlich aber sprechen sie durch die Musik. Und da erlebt man Herausragendes. Kana Sugimura, Anna Szulc, Martha Bijlsma und Johannes Nies sind ein preisgekr\u00f6ntes Klavierquartett, das sich sowohl in alter Musik als auch in der Avantgarde gleicherma\u00dfen \u00fcberzeugend bewegt.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Claus-Ulrich Heinke, Hildesheimer Allgemeine<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

What does sleep do to us? The pulse slows down, our temperature drops, the brain starts to work. The Flex Ensemble tries to bring what otherwise takes place in the dark depths of the subconscious into the focus of our consciousness.
\nTo do this, the ensemble has compiled music from various centuries into a program of works by Bach, Skriabin, Pesson, and Vasks, among others, that reflect the stages of human sleep. Their sleep research resulted in video and text material that contribute to the music and performance.
\nThe project, for which the musicians collaborated with Post Theater Berlin (video artist Yoann Trellu and dramaturg Max Schumacher), challenges the traditional concert setting.
\nTrance, slowed pulse or the surreal world of the subconscious are explored with the audience and taken on a journey through a sleep cycle, where they may well fall asleep, but probably don’t want to…<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”extra-color-gradient-1″][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

And what does that do to you?<\/h2>\n

ChamberMUSICtheater freely adapted from “Romeo and Juliet”<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sx19u857HQg” css=”.vc_custom_1664917873059{margin-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Romeo and Juliet – the most beautiful and tragic love story of all time… Really?<\/p>\n

What if everything had turned out a little differently? If Juliet, now in her mid-thirties, had become a neurotic single woman whose inner self provides a battleground for reluctant character traits, and whose encounter with a new love literally leaves her speechless?<\/p>\n

Accompanied by actor Christoph Linder, the Flex Ensemble, as a quadruple Juliet, explores the depths of nonverbal communication, the intimate connection concertgoers form with their audiences, and the unmistakable truth that lies in music by Brahms, Strauss, Hartke, and many others.<\/p>\n

With the Flex Ensemble, Friederike Karig (director) and Christoph Linder (actor).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”extra-color-gradient-1″][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

Phantasmagorical Movements. Surrealism in Art, Music & Dance<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvVAsdhMF5Y” css=”.vc_custom_1597681370912{margin-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Maurice Ravel<\/strong>
\nSonata for Violin and Cello<\/p>\n

Johannes Ciconia<\/strong>
\nLe Ray au soleyl<\/p>\n

Stephen Hartke<\/strong>
\nThe King of the Sun (1988)
\nwith Lena Visser, dance[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]There is something dreamlike and surreal about all of us – at least that is what the composer Stephen Hartke and the painter Joan Mir\u00f3 are convinced of and call this ‘something’ phantasmagoric. Inspired by these artists, we investigate: What happens when a piano quartet is considered part of a choreography or when a dancer becomes part of a music-making ensemble? Everything revolves around Stephen Hartke’s piece “The King of the Sun”, which is based on paintings by Mir\u00f3, and an impressionistic duet by Maurice Ravel, which reveals Ravel’s love of dance although it is not actually dance music. Projections of Mir\u00f3’s originals frame the concert evening. The joint experiment blurs the boundaries between music and dance, hearing and seeing!<\/p>\n

Possibly in conjunction with a workshop for children\/young people: What impressions listening to this music and art leaves on young listeners and how these can be made visible even without seeing – this was explored by the ensemble in advance in a project with pupils from the State Education Centre for the Blind in Hanover; the results were exhibited at the premiere.<\/p>\n

\u201cMir ist als Allererstes aufgefallen, als ich die vier hier kennengelernt habe, wie viel Bewegung bei ihnen im K\u00f6rper entsteht, wenn sie musizieren\u201d, erz\u00e4hlt Lena Visser. \u201cDas ist quasi nur ein Nebenprodukt, es ist gar nicht auf Performance ausgelegt. Und trotzdem empfinde ich es als T\u00e4nzerin wahnsinnig inspirierend \u2013 und nehme da ganz viel mit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Interview und Probenbesuch, NDR Kultur, Agnes B\u00fchrig, 30. Jan..2018)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ bottom_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”extra-color-gradient-1″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

Circular Music \/ New Music Meets Video<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]J\u00fcrg Frey (*1953) – Extended circular music no. 1-4 (2011-2014)<\/p>\n

Gordon Williamson (*1974) – Chanson Ru\u00e9e \u00a0(2017)<\/p>\n

G\u00e9rard Pesson (*1958)\u00a0 – Rentrez soupirs nach Marc-Antoine Charpentier<\/em> \/ Mes b\u00e9atitudes (1994\/1995)[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IqcDMG2R5Gc”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]In “Circular Music” the Flex Ensemble together with video artist Yoann Trellu presents a program that combines new music, space and video projections. The program is framed by J\u00fcrg Frey’s “Circular Music” and includes works by Gordon Williamson and G\u00e9rard Pesson commissioned by the Flex Ensemble. Trellu uses “generative mapping techniques” that respond to the musicians in real-time. These images are then projected onto the musicians and the space, emphasizing the architecture of the space. This program is a dynamic interaction between music and visual art, offering a new perspective on piano quartet works of the 20th and 21st centuries.<\/p>\n

“Schweigen hat in T\u00f6nen auch seinen Platz. Um Schweigen zu erreichen, muss man alles, das ihm im Weg steht, loslassen.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

J\u00fcrg Frey<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ bottom_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”extra-color-gradient-1″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

beJAZZled!<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Aaron Copland<\/strong>
\nPiano Quartet (1950)
\nKrzysztof Komeda\/Mateusz Smoczy\u0144ski <\/strong>
\nKomeda Recomposed
\n(commissioned by Flex Ensemble, 2021)
\nNikolai Kapustin<\/strong>
\nPiano Quintet op. 89 (1998)[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s6VSNZNA1ok”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Sounds like jazz – but it’s all written down! This motto has the recently deceased
\nRussian composer Nikolai Kapustin, who recently passed away, really
\nperfected this motto. The slow movement of his piano quintet, written in 1998 during a particularly
\nduring a particularly fruitful and creative phase of his career,
\nis one of Kapustin’s most beautiful creations, followed by what is probably the most
\nmost astonishing five minutes in chamber music literature – a jazz-rock classic that leaves the audience, but not necessarily the players, begging for an
\nfor an encore.
\nNext to it is Aaron Copland’s much too rarely played piano quartet
\nfrom 1950, which is influenced by jazz rhythms in the middle movement.
\nCopland, the “modernist,” is at his best here. He
\ndances with a kinetic movement to a kind of “ragged” time and thus
\nevokes the sharp pointillism of Stravinsky and Shostakovich.
\nShostakovich.
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Easter Transformations – an alternative Passion with Arvo P\u00e4rt<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bottom_padding=”80″ text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ohdkdo562E”][vc_column_text]Francisco Guerrero<\/strong> (1528-1599)
\nMaria Magdalene et altera Maria<\/p>\n

P\u0113teris Vasks<\/strong> (*1946)
\nGr\u0101mata \u010dellam II. Pianissimo (Dolcissimo) for Cello Solo (1978)<\/p>\n

Nora Gomringer<\/strong> (*1980)
\nVideo Lecture (2019)<\/p>\n

Arvo P\u00e4rt<\/strong> (*1935)
\nStabat Mater for soprano, alto, tenor, violin, viola and cello (1985)<\/p>\n

with
\nAnia Vegry \u2013 Sopran
\nMarlene Ga\u00dfner \u2013 Alto
\nUwe Gottswinter \u2013 Tenor
\nNora Gomringer \u2013 Video Lecture[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous Passion music originally had the purely religious purpose of conveying the Easter message. Even today they are played a lot and gladly heard at Easter, but the direct connection is no longer so strong. Many younger composers – such as Arvo P\u00e4rt – who worked with these religious texts put them into a modern context with their own musical language.<\/p>\n

We want to enter into and offer an engagement with spiritual retreat, but outside a traditionally religious framework. For this, we play P\u00e4rt’s Stabat Mater in conjunction with the reading of a text that seeks an engagement with the themes of the Passion and Resurrection in the present. This ‘modern sermon’ is produced and read by the young up-and-coming German writer Norah Bossong. The rarely performed Stabat Mater for three singers and string trio is in many ways a realisation of his aim to create a “musical line that is a carrier of the soul, an absolute monody, a naked voice from which everything originates”. The effect of this music can be felt as one’s own religious experience.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][fancy_box box_style=”default” icon_family=”none” image_url=”100″ color=”accent-color” border_radius=”default” image_loading=”default” link_url=”\/en\/x-impuls\/”]\n

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