V40

Friday, 09 March 2012

7.00 pm, Concert in Bauhaus Dessau

„Le Voyageur sans bagage“
A chamber concert with Ensemble Modern

Darius Milhaud: Suite „Le voyageur sans baggage“ for clarinet, violin and piano, Op. 157b
Nikos Skalkottas: Concertino for oboe and piano
Nikos Skalkottas: Concertino for trumpet and piano
Béla Bartók: Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano, Sz 111
Paul Hindemith: Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Oboe: Christian Hommel
Clarinet: Nina Janßen-Deinzer
Trumpet: Valentín Garvie
Violin: Jagdish Mistry
Cello: Michael M. Kasper
Piano: Ueli Wiget


“Le Voyageur sans bagage“ – although this work by Darius Milhaud has a serious background, it inspires a bout of daydreaming. When we see heavily-laden holidaymakers at the airport or train station drag their suitcases around, then it seems as if travelling without luggage must be a real luxury. Without such ballast we would really be free! And, despite their 30 years and more of successful collaborative performance, that could also be a metaphor for the members of Ensemble Modern: musicians who do not let the weighty pressures of the music business dampen their curiosity as they thrill audiences from Dessau to New York, from the Salzburg Festival to the Kurt Weill Festival. These music-makers are not worn down by the cares of everyday life. Admittedly, that's lavish praise, like one would bestow on the Eiffel Tower. But it cannot be denied that in the meantime Ensemble Modern has become an integral part of Kurt Weill Festival, just like the skyline of Paris would be incomplete with the Eiffel Tower. Classical modernity in Dessau!

Following the highly acclaimed chamber concert given in Bauhaus by members of Ensemble Modern at the Kurt Weill Festival of 2011, it quickly became obvious to all participants that such concerts should become a permanent festival feature, performed on the historic Bauhaus stage where many major works of the „modern“ chamber music repertoire were created.

And thus six musicians from Ensemble Modern will present a programme which focuses on the important French composer Darius Milhaud, but which at the same time paints a picture of a tumultuous Europe at the time of Kurt Weill, when many leading composers such as Béla Bartók and Paul Hindemith became homeless and persecuted, their work banned. Despite all their troubles, such artists created challenging music which is still alive today. Although not on the programme, Kurt Weill seems to be hovering at the wings at this exciting concert: the composer Nikos Skalkottas, widely unknown in Germany, almost certainly studied with Weill between 1923 and 1926.


In cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau



Ticket Prices in €

	Cat.1	conc.
V40	22,00	18,00