Musikfestival: Isabelle Faust. Alexander Melnikov - Schumann existenziell

In the organizer's words:

When you have been making music together as intensively as Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov for as long as they have, then it's time to get down to business: The two violin sonatas op. 105 and op. 121 were composed by the Düsseldorf music director Schumann within a few days in 1851, at a time when he was in constant conflict with unmotivated musicians and singers and was slowly slipping into an existential crisis. The passionate works are accompanied by Brahms' last chamber music, the second of the two sonatas op. 120, and by two works by Webern and Kurtág. Their concentrated miniatures form a pointed contrast to the flowing "liberated time" of the three great sonatas.

The concert will be recorded and broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on April 1 at 8 pm.

This will be followed by an artist talk with Anselm Cybinski at the Festival Center.

Price information:

19-69 € regular, 8 € tickets for students, trainees and pupils available at the Box Office from 1 hour before the concert starts.