THE TOWER OF BABEL

photo: Carlos Suarez / Wiener Konzerthaus

concert

with Klangforum Wien and others

Musicians:
Wendy Vo Cong Tri, flutes
Markus Deuter, oboe
Michele Marelli, clarinets
Lorelei Dowling, bassoon
Christoph Walder, horn
Anders Nyqvist, trumpet
Pablo Marin-Reyes, trombone
Jack Adler-McKean, tuba
Annette Bki, violin
Sophie Schafleitner, violin
Paul Beckett, viola
Andreas Lindenbaum, cello
Evan Hulbert, double bass
Florian Müller, piano
Johannes Piirto, piano
Björn Wilker, percussion
Alex Lipowski, percussion
Björn Wilker, percussion
Nico Couck, electric guitar
Sound engineering: Christina Bauer

Language:

Duration: 225 min

Sat 14 Oct 2023, 19:00

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Enormous shadows are looming over the various New Music scenes of the post-Soviet territories, which have once again become the site of violent, geopolitical conflict. The fluidity of a perfectly natural dialogue between leading composers and performers between Tbilisi and Minsk, Yerevan and Moscow, Tashkent and Kyiv has come to a standstill, the dialogue has ceased. Once more, music runs the risk of being reduced to national self-assertion and to a propaganda shield of supposed superiority. Resistance against such instrumentalization is called for. With its multi-part project “The Tower of Babel”, Klangforum Wien wants to contribute to these efforts. It draws up a map of the New in music in today's post-Soviet space, which naturally presents artistically uncompromising positions from Estonia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Latvia, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Like a "Tower of Babel", the project is intended to rise above the cultural landscape, currently suffering such terrible deprivation: radiant with polyphony, utopian as ever, providing both a sanctuary and a vantage point.

CONCERT 1
Alexey Sysoev (Russia) Col Pugno
Age Veeroos (Estonia) ich sehe Federn wachsen im Sand der Wüsten
Jamilia Jazylbekova (Kazakhstan)
Les illusions de l'âme
Peter Rundel, conductor


PANEL 1:
“Unheard voices”

19:45—20:15 | Saal

CONCERT 2
Anna Korsun (Ukraine) UCHТ
Asia Ahmetjanova (Latvia) Beth
Aram Hovhannisyan (Armenia)
Strophes-Segments
Vitali Aleksenook, conductor
Markus Deuter, oboe
Michele Marelli, clarinet
Anders Nyqvist, trumpet
Krassimir Sterev, accordion

PANEL 2:
“United or divided”

21:15—21:45 | Saal

CONCERT 3
Dariya Maminova (Russia)
I don't know whether
the Earth is spinning or not...
Valery Voronov (Belarus)
Gigantomania for Tamtam solo
Alexander Khubeev (Russia)
The Codex of Thoughtcrimes
Vitali Alekseenok, conductor (Maminova)
Peter Rundel, conductor (Khubeev)
Neue Vocalsolisten
Dariya Maminova, voice

CONCERT 1
Alexey Sysoev
(Russia) Col Pugno
Age Veeroos
(Estonia) ich sehe
Federn wachsen im
Sand der Wüsten
Jamilia Jazylbekova (Kazakhstan)
Les illusions de l'âme
Peter Rundel, conductor


PANEL 1:
“Unheard voices”

19:45—20:15 | Saal

CONCERT 2
Anna Korsun
(Ukraine) UCHТ
Asia Ahmetjanova
(Latvia) Beth
Aram Hovhannisyan
(Armenia) Strophes-Segments
Vitali Aleksenook, conductor
Markus Deuter, oboe
Michele Marelli, clarinet
Anders Nyqvist, trumpet
Krassimir Sterev, accordion

PANEL 2:
“United or divided”

21:15—21:45 | Saal

CONCERT 3
Dariya Maminova
(Russia) I don't know whether the Earth is spinning or not...
Valery Voronov (Belarus)
Gigantomania
for Tamtam solo
Alexander Khubeev
(Russia) The Codex
of Thoughtcrimes
Vitali Alekseenok,
conductor (Maminova)
Peter Rundel,
conductor (Khubeev)
Neue Vocalsolisten
Dariya Maminova, voice

24 musicians from 12 countries are constantly exploring new horizons of artistic creativity together with the most important composers of our time. Open-minded, virtuosic in performance and aurally perceptive, Klangforum Wien devotes itself to the artistic interpretation and expansion of experiential space. A performance of Klangforum Wien is an event in the best sense of the word; it offers a sensual experience, immediate and inescapable.

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