29 September 2024 / 12:00 pm

Museum Folkwang Essen | Karl Ernst Osthaus Hall
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen

TÚ SOLO Y YO QUEDAMOS / YOU ALONE AND ME WE STAY

Is there such a thing – an artistic echo to the catastrophe of the Ukraine war? How does advanced art music position itself in this question? And what mobilises music in the face of an archaic outbreak of violence? – These are questions that affect and have affected the compositions in this concert. More than that: they have generated them. Each of them wants to be understood as an answer, however impotent it may be. It is about listening, about listening. To four composers, the majority of whom are contemporary composers: Juan Allende-Blin, Zygmunt Krauze, Ludmila Yurina and Tona Scherchen-Hsiao. How does art speak to our helplessness?

Zygmunt Krauze
DE IRA, DE DOLORE (2022), German premiere
for electronics and eight instruments (flute, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, violoncello)

Juan Allende-Blin
Por el cielo vacío / Through the empty sky (2024), *premiere
after the poem Ruina / Ruin by Federico García Lorca
Cantata for baritone, flute, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, piano (keys/strings) and percussion

Tona Scherchen-Hsiao
Tjao-Houen (1973)
for flute, oboe, trombone, three percussionists, piano, viola and violoncello

Ludmila Yurina
Distant Lands (2022), European premiere
for violin and electronics

Thomas Bonni, baritone
Christoph Maria Wagner, conductor

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Evelin Degen, flute
Anja Schmiel

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