chamber choir concert

Ulrich Kreppein: New work

based on the poem ‘Sleepless City’ by Federico García Lorca

for 24-part choir a cappella WP

Zeynep Toraman: New work

for violin and piano WP

Younghi Pagh-Paan: New work

for choir WP

Arne Gieshoff: New work

for violin and piano WP

Agata Zubel: New work

after paintings by Gerhard Richter

for choir WP

Saviet/Houston Duo

Sarah Saviet, violin and Joseph Houston, piano

SWR Vokalensemble

Conductor: Susanne Blumenthal

When the Polish composer and singer Agata Zubel began working on her choral piece, she saw images of Gerhard Richter in her mind’s eye: art that repeatedly reflects critically on society. A text by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is the starting point for Ulrich Kreppein’s work between song and noise. The instrumental duos by Zeynep Toraman and Arne Gieshoff emerged from a completely different perspective, relying on the duo’s great love of experimentation and each finding their very own poetry. In the late phase of her rich life as a composer, Younghi Pagh-Paan now sees the main task of music in comforting people.