Franz Schubert/Francesco Tristano Water Flood from "Winterreise" D 911
Claude Debussy Préludes (Selection)
Franz Schubert/Francesco Tristano Erstarrung from "Winterreise" D 911
Francesco Tristano Frost (premiere)
Franz Schubert/Francesco Tristano Good Night from "Winterreise" D 911
Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
Franz Schubert/Francesco Tristano The Signpost from "Winterreise" D 911
Toru Takemitsu For away
19.00, Albert Mangelsdorff Foyer
Lost Soul. The political situation in Schubert's time
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Stegemann (musicologist, TU Dortmund)
Admission free
Followed by around 21.30 pm, Foyer Level 2
At the bar with Franceso Tristano and Esa-Pekka Salonen
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Michael Stegemann
Admission free, duration: approx. 30 minutes
That is also what "Musikfest" means at the Alte Oper: outstanding artists take a stand. Performers react to a central work and show what attitude, what associations, what imaginations it awakens in them. For the Musikfest "Fremd bin ich ..." Francesco Tristano has put his thoughts on Schubert's "Winterreise" into a recital. The pianist calls his programme "(M)eine Winterreise" (A Winter Journey), which has just as much to say about the intellectual content of the "Winter Journey" as it does about its musical content. He juxtaposes his own and other contemporary compositions as well as works of classical modernism with arrangements of selected songs from "Winterreise" in order to merge them into a meditative sound painting. Schubert, for example, he listens to the nocturnal darkness, the sound of the universe or the icy coldness in order to mirror it in the intoxicating tones of a Ravel or Debussy. Tristano deals with Thomas Bernhard's first novel "Frost", which, like "Winterreise", elevates wandering in the outer and inner winter to a motif, in his own composition of the same name.
Source of text and further information about this event: https://www.alteoper.de/de/programm/veranstaltung.php?id=518131186
