A two-part project that unites artistic works that have one thing in common: a 'twist' or turning point, after which - just like in real life - nothing is the way it used to be. The work "THE WHIP" by Yulia Arsen revolves around a whip and all its symbolic meanings. Around the deconstruction of folk dance in all its [...]
This is a performance with two dance pieces that wander in a non-staged environment. The two choreographers and dancers, Tatyana Chizhikova and Yulia Arsen, detach their creations from their original stage versions, relying on solid choreographic structure, resonant imagery and emotional density to create a shared experience for the viewer. Together they create [...]
Huge shadows lie over the many scenes of new music in the region of the former Soviet Union, which is once again the scene of violent geopolitical conflicts. The lively exchange of leading composers and performers between Tbilisi and Minsk, Yerevan and Moscow, Tashkent and Kyiv has come to a standstill, the dialogue to a standstill. Music is once again in danger of being reduced to national [...]
Boris Filanovsky's "Ob aus Luft" is a musical meditation on loss, inspired by the celebrated cycle of poems by Maria Stepanova. With a perfect blend of silence and fervor, static and expression, the Swiss artist duo of soprano Maja Bader and pianist Leonhard Dering give the piece a lively interpretation. In the second half of the concert, bass-baritone [...]
There is no correct or incorrect way to remember. But we are constantly being disciplined into particular ways of recollecting: by memory politics, media discourse, our families, our surroundings, our own changing ideas of ourselves, and so on. During crises - and wars as an extreme manifestation thereof - such disciplining becomes even more pronounced. [...]
The dialectic of freedom and oppression runs as a guiding theme through the diverse artistic programme of this concert by the Neue Vocalsolisten. Works written especially for the Neue Vocalsolisten will be performed and presented publicly for the first time. The memories of women who witnessed the revolution in Belarus in 2020, recorded by the artist Olga Bubich, [...]
The dictatorship of art! - No dictator knows its secrets. But there are suggestions here: Fire and water, gallons of bubble bath, a giant pentagram-like wooden construction and pulsating music samples create a wonderful new world. Why crack hard nuts? It's enough to break their resistance. Burning chairs instead of flaming speeches, retreat from overwhelming demands instead of bloody tribunals, healing mud [...]
The dictatorship of art! - No dictator knows its secrets. But there are suggestions here: Fire and water, gallons of bubble bath, a giant pentagram-like wooden construction and pulsating music samples create a wonderful new world. Why crack hard nuts? It's enough to break their resistance. Burning chairs instead of flaming speeches, retreat from overwhelming demands instead of bloody tribunals, healing mud [...]
Gustav Mahler 10th Symphony: Adagio and works inspired by Mahler's Tenth by leading composers of our time: Philippe Manoury, Mark Andre, Jay Schwartz and Alexey Retinsky Fragmentary and yet complete: The achingly beautiful Adagio from Gustav Mahler's 10th Symphony, its only half-completed movement, is both a legacy of late Romantic composing and a door opener to modernism. Always [...]
Following the brilliant performance of the Cherubini Requiem in May 2023, Thomas Hengelbrock and his ensembles return to the Philharmonie with the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Johannes Brahms achieved his breakthrough as a composer with this famous work at the age of 35. After Clara Schumann had studied the score, she wrote him what people still [...]
