Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall

Good Friday, one of the most important public holidays in the Christian calendar, experiences an appreciation with distinguished early music expert Jordi Savall and his ensemble Concert des Nations in two expressive Passion oratorios, such as they could not be any more impressive in a cathedral. The works by Haydn and Beethoven are profoundly different in nature and historical origin, yet unified by directly touching music and the Easter message.

PERFORMERS

Le Concert des Nations orchestra

La Capella Nacional de Catalunya vocal ensemble

Elionor Martínez soprano

Lara Morger mezzo-soprano

Emanuel Tomljenovic tenor

Ferran Mitjans tenor

Manuel Walser baritone

Jordi Savall conductor

PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven
Christus am Ölberge

- Interval -

Joseph Haydn
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze Hob. XX:2

Lenke Rothman: Quality of Life

From the 1950s until her death in 2008, Rothman developed a unique feminist œuvre, where aspects of the everyday are set against a biographical and historic backdrop. Characterised by the radical processing of a lived present after the Shoah, Rothman’s practice negotiates lines of temporality and transience through, amongst other things, the preservation ephemeral and forgotten materials in a body of work that moves from abstract painting in the 1950s into the vocabulary of post-conceptual feminist sculpture in the 1960s and 70s. By recurring gestures – sewing, mending and enveloping, carving texts into fabric or paper, and holding together torn or decaying fragments – Rothman gives form to impermanence and memory alike, emphasising clothing as a membrane between fragile bodies and the world that surrounds them. Here, Rothman’s gestural poetics understand repair as the materialisation of the perpetual guided by the question: ‘How can life be saved and preserved despite constant destruction?’

Lenke Rothman: Quality of Life

From the 1950s until her death in 2008, Rothman developed a unique feminist œuvre, where aspects of the everyday are set against a biographical and historic backdrop. Characterised by the radical processing of a lived present after the Shoah, Rothman’s practice negotiates lines of temporality and transience through, amongst other things, the preservation ephemeral and forgotten materials in a body of work that moves from abstract painting in the 1950s into the vocabulary of post-conceptual feminist sculpture in the 1960s and 70s. By recurring gestures – sewing, mending and enveloping, carving texts into fabric or paper, and holding together torn or decaying fragments – Rothman gives form to impermanence and memory alike, emphasising clothing as a membrane between fragile bodies and the world that surrounds them. Here, Rothman’s gestural poetics understand repair as the materialisation of the perpetual guided by the question: ‘How can life be saved and preserved despite constant destruction?’

Lenke Rothman: Quality of Life

From the 1950s until her death in 2008, Rothman developed a unique feminist œuvre, where aspects of the everyday are set against a biographical and historic backdrop. Characterised by the radical processing of a lived present after the Shoah, Rothman’s practice negotiates lines of temporality and transience through, amongst other things, the preservation ephemeral and forgotten materials in a body of work that moves from abstract painting in the 1950s into the vocabulary of post-conceptual feminist sculpture in the 1960s and 70s. By recurring gestures – sewing, mending and enveloping, carving texts into fabric or paper, and holding together torn or decaying fragments – Rothman gives form to impermanence and memory alike, emphasising clothing as a membrane between fragile bodies and the world that surrounds them. Here, Rothman’s gestural poetics understand repair as the materialisation of the perpetual guided by the question: ‘How can life be saved and preserved despite constant destruction?’

LEVI.SCT

LEVI.SCT (Levi Schechtmann) is a genre-defying German pianist who is redefining the classical concert experience as we know it. He seems to effortlessly blend the emotional depth of classical composers with the raw energy of hip-hop and house music.
With his outstanding technique and his carefree approach to seemingly contrasting styles, LEVI.SCT is at the forefront of a new wave of artists who want to make classical music relevant and exciting for a new generation. With over 1,000,000 followers on Instagram, LEVI.SCT’s rise has been nothing short of phenomenal. Similar to his social media content, his concerts combine virtuosity, rhythm and emotion into a cinematic and immersive experience.

PERFORMERS

Levi Schechtmann piano

Lohengrin

Elsa of Brabant is suspected of having killed her younger brother Gottfried in the forest. When King Henry the Fowler asks Elsa to defend herself, she pleads for an imaginary knight to come to her aid. Suddenly, Lohengrin, the Knight of the Swan, appears. He promises to fight for Elsa, but makes her promise beforehand never to question him about his identity or provenance.