28.8.– 27.9. 2025

Fri. 15.9.

19:30, Kreuzung an St. Helena

Four Elements

  • Chamber Music
  • Past Event
  • € 38
© Marco Giannavola
© Marco Giannavola

Contributors

  • Brooklyn Rider
    • Johnny Gandelsman violin
    • Colin Jacobsen violin
    • Nicholas Cords viola
    • Michael Nicolas violoncello

Programme

Colin Jacobsen

»A Short While To Be Here«, based on American folk songs, collected by Ruth Crawford Seeger

Andreia Pinto Correia

»Aere senza stelle«

Henri Dutilleux

String Quartet »Ainsi la nuit«

Akshaya Avril Tucker

»Hollow Flame«

Dmitri Shostakovich

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, op. 110

Dan Trueman

»Under My Feet«

Conrad Tao

»Undone«

Osvaldo Golijov

»Tenebrae«

Concert with 2 breaks. Concert duration approx. 140 Minutes.

18:45, Kreuzung an St. Helena
Concert introduction
Barbara Stach (Beethovenfest Bonn) in conversation with the musicians and Dr. Burkhard Severin (Kreuzung an St. Helena)

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Description

The four elements are primal forces to which we feel an instinctive connection. Inspired by rapidly intensifying environmental imbalances, Brooklyn Rider has created a concert based on the concept of the balance between the elements. The ensemble commissioned new works for the elements Earth, Water, Air and Fire, which they perform alongside classical modernist works.

Earth:
Suite of American Folk Songs, collected by Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), arr. by Colin Jacobsen
Dan Trueman: »Under My Feet« (2022)

Air:
Andreia Pinto Correia: »Aere senza stelle« (2022)
Henri Dutilleux: String Quartet »Ainsi la nuit« (1977)

Fire:
Akshaya Avril Tucker: »Hollow Flame« (2022)
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 (1960)

Water:
Conrad Tao: »Undone« (2022)
Osvaldo Golijov: »Tenebrae« (2002)

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