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Charles Ives meets Arnold Schönberg

Ives meets Schönberg: Charles Ives and Arnold Schönberg never met in person, but they knew each other very well. An evening of songs, piano and chamber music as well as original texts by the composers, who were born in different cultural circles in the same year, brings them into dialogue with each other.

Mann im Anzug mit Tennisschläger spricht über ein Tennisnetz hinweg mit drei Kindern in Tennisbekleidung
© Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien

Mann im Anzug mit Tennisschläger spricht über ein Tennisnetz hinweg mit drei Kindern in Tennisbekleidung


The montage promises to provide an insight into the thinking of two founders of New Music who, independently of each other, embarked on similar paths and created radically new forms of musical expression.


CAST

  • Stefan Litwin piano
  • N.N. Soprano
  • Georg Nigl baritone
  • Michael Rotschopf recitation and emcee
  • Eliot Quartet:
  • Maryana Osipova violin
  • Alexander Sachs violin
  • Dmitry Hahalin viola
  • Michael Preuss cello

Program


Arnold Schoenberg
15 poems from The Book of Hanging Gardens by Stefan George op. 15: Selection


Arnold Schoenberg
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for speaking voice, piano and string quartet op. 41


Arnold Schoenberg
Serenade op. 24: 4th movement Sonnet 217 by Petrarch


Arnold Schoenberg
Ballads, piano pieces and other works


Charles Ives
114 songs: selection


Charles Ives
Piano music and compositions for piano quintet




In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele
Additional information
The concert will be followed by a get-together in honour of Ulrich Eckhardt, artistic director of the Berliner Festspiele from 1973 to 2000, in the foyer of the Chamber Music Hall on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
Participating artists
Stefan Litwin
Michael Rotschopf
Eliot Quartett
Maryana Osipova
Alexander Sachs
Dmitry Hahalin
Michael Preuss
Peyee Chen
Tora Augestad
Holger Falk
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Dates
August 2024
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