Konzert IV "Hören mit Helmholtz"

In the organizer's words:

𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐕

𝐢𝐦 𝐑𝐚𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐡𝐞 "𝐇𝐨̈𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐳" 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐢𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝟑. 𝐁𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐮̈𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐤 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐧-𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐫

"For although scientific questions were mixed with aesthetic ones, the latter were of a relatively simple nature, while the former were much more complex. This relationship must necessarily be reversed if one were to attempt to advance further in the aesthetics of music, if one were to move on to the study of rhythm, of compositional forms, of the means of musical expression. In all these areas the peculiarities of sensory perception will still have an influence from time to time, but probably only in a very subordinate way. The real difficulty will lie in the entanglement of the psychological motives that assert themselves here. Of course, this is also where the more interesting part of musical aesthetics begins (...) " (Helmholtz)

In art, after all, other rules apply, one could continue, and Helmholtz was well aware of this - as the last lines of his Theory of Tone Sensations show (...) The disturbances of harmony (combination tones, beats, low and lowest tones, etc.) from the second chapter of the Theory of Tone Sensations form the starting point or the ladder as tonal material, via which I will enter the poem Die Irren by Rainer Maria Rilke. (... He succeeds ...) in his poem Die Irren in creating the paradox of an artistically almost crystalline description of complete instability. And this - like all art - is actually an impossibility.

All is well with the commissioned work. On a text by Rainer Maria Rilke ("Die Irren")

Program:

World premiere - Arnulf Herrmann: all is well, 2024

World premiere - Valerio Sannicandro: chants contraires, 2024

Johannes Brahms: Vocal quartets op. 112, for choir and piano, 1888-1891

Johannes Brahms: 3 vocal quartets op. 64, for 4 voices and piano, 1874

Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

Henry Cowell: Sinister Resonance, 1930

Henry Cowell: Aeolian Harp, 1923
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Soloists of the SCHOLA HEIDELBERG
SCHOLA HEIDELBERG | ensemble aisthesis
Conductor: Walter Nußbaum & Ekkehard Windrich

Price information:

A festival pass for the entire event is also available and costs between €15.00 and €75.00.