19:30 Haus des Rundfunks

Mensch, Musik! #5 Border Issues – an Exploration

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ouvertüre zu Goethes Trauerspiel „Egmont“ f-Moll op. 84

Mauricio Kagel

Marsch Nr. 1 aus “10 Märsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen”
(kleine Besetzung)

Samaquias Lorta

Interlude I für fünf Live-Musiker und Elektronik

Charles Ives

“The Unanswered Question” for small orchestra

Mauricio Kagel

Marsch Nr. 5 aus “10 Märsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen”
(kleine Besetzung)

Samaquias Lorta

Interlude II für fünf Live-Musiker und Elektronik

Iannis Xenakis

“Voile” für 20 Streicher

Mauricio Kagel

Marsch Nr. 6 aus “10 Märsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen”
(kleine Besetzung)

Samaquias Lorta

Interlude III für Elektronik

Richard Wagner

“Lohengrin” WWV 75 – Vorspiel zum 1. Akt

Samaquias Lorta

Interlude IV für Elektronik

Dmitri Shostakovich

Sinfonie Nr. 9 Es-Dur op. 70, 1. Satz: Allegro

Mauricio Kagel

Marsch Nr. 9 aus “10 Märsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen”
(volles Orchester)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sinfonie Nr. 6 e-Moll, 4. Satz: Epilogue

Tarmo Peltokoski

Conductor

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

tauchgold

Konzept und szenische Einrichtung

Samaquias Lorta

Elektronische Musik

Doron Sadja

Klanginstallation

“You won’t find the limits of the soul even if you walk down all the roads; it is that deep and that wide.” (Heraclitus)

A traveler crosses the border to another country.
A soldier crosses the border to another country.
A fugitive crosses the border to another country.
A timid one crosses the border of his fears.
A dying person crosses the border to death.

The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin transcends the boundaries of symphonic music by inviting artists to push the limits of classical performance practice electronically, videographically and philosophically, while under the baton of Tarmo Peltokoski performing the work of composers who touched the boundaries of their respective times.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9, composed in 1945, was not the pathetic victory celebration that the Soviet rulers – and not only they – had expected of him. At the same time, Ralph Vaughan Williams was working on Symphony No. 6, in which one can immediately hear the personal consternation. Mauricio Kagel’s “Ten Marches to Miss Victory” convey in a grandiose comic way the message that the widespread assumption that one can solve the world’s problems in lockstep is an illusion. It’s a message that electronic music composer and performance artist Samaquias Lorta – from the talented pool of Catalyst graduates – takes to give it yet another new, digital twist.

Charles Ives, an American contemporary of Arnold Schönberg, also contemplates the futility of the search for answers. tauchgold embeds all these musical-multimedia impulses in a context of open, philosophical questions: Where do we want to draw the line when we talk about boundaries?

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