Gewandhausorchester, Alan Gilbert: Franke, Bruckner at Gewandhaus
Etkinlik Hakkında
In Leipzig's beloved Gewandhaus, hear the Gewandhaus Orchestra and pianist Michael Wolny under the baton of Alan Gilbert for a captivating performance of works by Franke and Bruckner.
I don't compose for the quiet chamber, says Bernd Franke, and yet the concert hall became a quiet chamber when his concert was to be premiered at the beginning of December 2021, lest a virus sail through the hall on sound waves. Genesis has much to do with music from other cultures, especially Indian, Japanese and Chinese, and music before classical music. Not least inspiring are my observations of social behavior in music making. The unusual form of the work came about in dialogue with the soloist at the premiere. Michael Wollny wanted musical offers to listen and react, improvisational freedom. In the orchestral writing, too, flexibly designed, aleatoric situations with possibilities for free playing open up alongside composed passages. Franke creates dense sound surfaces that sound complex but are simply notated and in which the musicians act quasi independently of each other.
'Landscapes' is what Franke calls parts of his concerto — and this could also be used to describe Bruckner's crescendo mountains, fortissimo plateaus, general pause canyons, pianissimo meadows and counterpoint forests. The main theme of the trumpet stands out from the softly moving sound surface of the beginning, other winds follow and create an enormous musical panorama. Wide string levels open up, natural tone sequences announce the sublime, but the pathetic Bruckner theme — the solemnly celebrated splendid version of the first trumpet idea — is a long time coming. When, after nearly a quarter of an hour, it resounds powerfully from horns, trombones and trumpets in the center of the opening movement, the effect is simply overwhelming. But even the supposedly unsurpassable only gives a foreshadowing of what will happen at the end of the movement and finally at the end of the work dedicated to Richard Wagner, likewise under the sign of this theme.
Pratik Bilgiler
Gewandhaus Orkestrası, tarihi nedeniyle özel bir şekilde sivil katılımı temsil ediyor. Günümüzün zorluklarını ve müziğin topluluk oluşturma, ilham verme ve dönüştürme potansiyelini göz önünde bulundurarak, 2022 yılında bir demokrasi girişimi başlattı. Adalet, kaynaklar, medya, kurumlar, eğitim, kimlik, dayanıklılık ve inanç gibi acil konularda, kamusal ve kültürel figürler birbirleriyle, dinleyicilerle ve müzikal performanslarla diyaloğa giriyor.
'Rezonans', temel değerler, demokrasi anlayışı ve sosyal birliktelik üzerine müzikal olarak ilham veren, kültürel olarak başlatılan tartışmanın üzerindeki slogandır. Sizi yuvarlak masalardaki tartışmalara katılmaya ve atölye çalışmaları ve performanslarda rezonansın politik, sosyolojik, akustik ve kişilerarası yönlerini deneysel olarak keşfetmeye ve müzikal olarak deneyimlemeye davet ediyoruz. Müzikal sanat eserlerinden esinlenerek, toplumu şekillendirmeye yardımcı olmak isteyen herkes arasında, günümüzün sesleri ve ortak yararı güçlendiren fikirler için alanlar açıyoruz.
