Berlin

Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that tell no "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 its own cosmos, especially evident in Cerha's case, who spreads out a soundscape on over 300 percussion instruments. The energetic young exceptional virtuoso Vivi Vassileva is [...]

Dennis Russell Davies is considered a leading conductor of American music. In this concert, together with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and a total of nearly 200 performers, he presents three very personal works by composers who have left their mark on 20th-century U.S. music. Decoration Day marks the day in the U.S. when the fallen are remembered and their graves decorated [...]

photo credit @ICKHEO Master craftsmanship on stage? It sounds strange and fascinating at the same time: While a ceramist and a knot artist perform their work on stage, in the background [...]

The theatre of Imagination moves the performance into the minds of the audience: the description of the events is projected onto a screen. The imagined stage action - famous, real productions [...]

Tatiana Chizhikova uses solid and condensed choreographic forms for her works, while their emotional content is rather complex and highly charged. In her new solo performance she works with a simple found object, a stick. With it she unfolds a detailed movement research on the theme of rootedness, grounding or staggering and displacement. Tatiana Chizhikova: "I have a dry stick [...].

A broad spectrum of musical deconstructions of classical formal models is heard in this duo recital: Stravinsky's Divertissement (1934) is based on the music for his ballet Le Baiser de la fée, which in turn was inspired by Tchaikovsky's great ballet music. Kharkiv-born, Israel-based composer Leonid Desyatnikov dissects the last song in Like the Old Lyreman... (1997) [...].