What does history sound like – today?
With echo:chamber, Stegreif brings three 20th-century chamber music works to the stage. Music that was composed amidst war, dictatorship and upheaval, and which continues to resonate to this day. Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (1945) paints a deeply moving musical picture of the end of an era. György Ligeti’s Sechs Bagatellen (1953) reflect the tension and turmoil of the post-war period. Alfred Schnittke’s Stille Musik(1979) uses radical reduction to open up a space for that which can scarcely be put into words – or sounds. Between loss and hope, destruction and new beginnings, echo:chamber transports the audience into soundscapes that move and stir the soul.
Yet the concert does not remain rooted in the past: echo:chamber continually opens up new possibilities for the musicians to juxtapose and fuse the original works with improvisations and theatrical elements. Spontaneous, intense and born of the moment, the result is a concert experience that connects musicians and audience, facilitating a shared musical dialogue about the past, present and future.
Photo: Frederik Ferschke
