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Matthias Pintscher, conductor; Neuwirth / Tschaikowsky / Rachmaninow

Musikfest Berlin – Wortmarke Musikfest Berlin

Musikfest Berlin – Wortmarke Musikfest Berlin

Back in Berlin: after their triumphant success in 2024, the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra accompanied by their conductor Matthias Pintscher is making a further guest appearance at the Musikfest Berlin. Alongside Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot, the programme also includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3 characterised by the emotions of grief and valediction. Olga Neuwirth’s orchestral pieces Tombeau I und Dreydl have a focus on transience and remembrance. The first work is a musical commemoration of Pierre Boulez. In the words of the Austrian composer, the title of the second piece alludes to the “fateful cycle of destiny”.

After Rachmaninov had permanently left Russia in 1917, he spent much of his life on a seemingly never-ending concert tour. It was therefore not surprising that his creative work came almost to a complete halt, despite avowedly being as important in his life “as breathing or eating”. The Symphony No. 3 was one of the few works to be composed in exile and unambiguously reveals his intensive yearning for his lost homeland: with melancholy themes interspersed by sighing motifs and quotations from the medieval Dies irae hymn on the Last Judgement. The concert opens with Olga Neuwirth’s moving Tombeau I, composed in memory of Pierre Boulez which begins with a swelling cry. Neuwirth’s orchestral piece Dreydl is based on a Yiddish children’s song Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl in which the constantly rotating spinning top of the title becomes a symbol of the relentless passage of a lifetime. The composer comments: “Like throwing dice, the dreydl is a game of chance. […] no-one knows what the future will bring.”

Olga Neuwirth (*1968)

Tombeau I (2024)

for orchestra and sampler

Dreydl (2021)

for orchestra

Peter I. Tschaikowsky (1840–1893)

Violin Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, Op. 35 (1878)

Sergej Rachmaninow (1873–1943)

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 (1st version from 1935)

Artists/Collaborators: Blake Pouliot, Matthias Pintscher

A Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin event

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18:10, South Foyer

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