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PERCUSSION IN PERFECTION
5 November 2022 @ 20:00
Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that do not tell a "programme" and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: in them pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation are expressed. Each work represents a cosmos of its own, particularly evident in the case of Friedrich Cerha, who spreads out a soundscape on over 300 percussion instruments. The energetic young exceptional virtuoso Vivi Vassileva is the soloist in this perhaps most beautiful and at the same time most demanding percussion concerto ever written.
"Where are you going?" At the beginning of his Sinfonietta, Zemlinsky circles around a motif based on this line of poetry by Maurice Maeterlinck. He wrote the work shortly before emigrating to America, where he died just four years later. All three composers on our program were highly successful, decorated with awards and also celebrated as conductors - and yet had to deal with formative experiences of exclusion and persecution throughout their lives.
The concert will also take place on 6/11/2022, 8PM at the Philharmonie Berlin.