Prayer of sound — Sofia Gubaidulina at 90
The KLANGWERK AM BAUHAUS ensemble are celebrating composer Sofia Gubaidulina. As a devoted mystic, she can connect any sound to a feeling in the soul. For her, there is essential meaning in the elements of prayer, intuition, silence and the numerical symbolism associated with the unfailing genius Bach. All these elements come together in this prayer of sound.
Sofia Gubaidulina is one of the most significant composers of modern times. She says her music should “definitely have a logical structure, a composition designed with drama in mind, while at the same time being instantaneously shocking, ruthlessly stirring up the listener’s emotions.” Talking about her methods of working, she says that she “grows” her works; the world she internalises is like the roots of a tree, and the works that grow out of it are its branches and leaves.
Christoph Ritter is a pianist, chamber musician, and professor of song composition at Weimar’s Musikhochschule. As well as performing in concerts himself, he also designs, curates and manages programmes of concerts and events.
Zwischenfälle ☛☚ Случаи
The starting point of this project, and its point of reference, is the aesthetic revolt of the Russian avant-garde in 1917, which is closely related to the Bauhaus school of thought. The music of Arthur Lourié and the key figures of the Russian literary avant-garde, Velimir Khlebnikov, Daniil Charms and Vasily Kamensky, are the kindling that ignites actions via word and sound. Sergei Nevsky and Ulrich Kreppein have placed the visual and linguistic world of the poets at the heart of their compositions, performed for the first time at this evening’s event.
»Gebet des Klanges I — in croce« | Werke von Martin Sturm, Lisa Streich, Sofia Gubaidulina und freie Improvisationen
SUN, 29 AUG — 6 PM, Church of Ss Peter and Paul (Herder Church)
»Gebet des Klanges II — Silenzio« | Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach, Sofia Gubaidulina und freie Improvisationen
FRI, 10 SEP — 5 PM, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Foyer
»Zwischenfälle ☛☚ Случаи« | Musik — Sprache — Improvisation — Uraufführungen
SAT, 11 SEP — 8 PM, Bauhaus-Museum Weimar
GEBET DES KLANGES I — IN CROCE
VIOLONCELLO — Christina Meißner
ORGEL — Martin Sturm
GEBET DES KLANGES II — SILENZIO
ENSEMBLE KLANGWERK AM BAUHAUS Elizaveta Birjukova (Flöte) | Andreas Schulik (Violine) | Christina Meißner (Violoncello) | Claudia Buder (Akkordeon) | Christoph Ritter (Klavier)
ZWISCHENFÄLLE ☛☚ СЛУЧАИ
ENSEMBLE KLANGWERK AM BAUHAUS Elizaveta Birjukova (Flöte) | Sergej Birjukov (Sprache) | Claudia Buder (Akkordeon) | Christina Meißner (Violoncello) | Christoph Ritter (Klavier)
PRODUKTION — Ensemble Klangwerk am Bauhaus
KOOPERATION — KUNSTFEST WEIMAR | DEUTSCHES NATIONALTHEATER WEIMAR UND STAATSKAPELLE WEIMAR | KLASSIK STIFTUNG WEIMAR
FÖRDERUNG — ERNST VON SIEMENS MUSIKSTIFTUNG | KULTURSTIFTUNG DES FREISTAATS THÜRINGEN
