Rosen und Telefone: Johann Strauß und Sciarrino bei der Ruhrtriennale

By Michael Klier, 18 September 2019

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“Klangentdeckungen auf kleinstem tonalen Raum zelebrierte Nyqvist sorgsam und ohne Effekthascherei”

Reviewed at Kokerei Zollverein Essen, Essen on 15 September 2019

Strauss II, Lagunen-Walzer, Op.411

Billone, Ebe und Anders für 7 Instrumente

Webern, Symphony, Op.21

Traversa, Martino, The lost horizion

Puccini, Crisantemi

Ianotta, D'après for seven musicians

Sciarrino, Archeologia di telefono concertante per 13 strumenti

Strauss II, Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Op.388

Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor

Klangforum Wien

Anders Nyqvist, Trumpet

Eberle, Andreas, Trombone

Yaron Deutsch, Electric guitar

Haas’ 11,000 Strings at Park Avenue Armory

Kurt Gottschalk, 30th September

Like Ligeti before him, Georg Friedrich Haas makes the avant garde approachable as this performance of 11,000 Strings reveals.

***11

Miroslav Srnka’s Voice Killer premieres at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 16th June

At MusikTheater an der Wien, Miroslav Srnka’s new opera provess a deeply compelling, meticulously crafted work. It may not uplift, but it sears itself into the memory.

****1

Smart, stylish Klangforum Wien residency wraps at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 1st June

Klangforum Wien finishes a far-reaching excursion into the boldest realms of modern music with a flourish.

****1

Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor

Chanda VanderHart, 28th April

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

****1

Embracing the new at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 21st May

A world première by a Czech composer highlights a strong outing by Klangforum Wien.

****1

“To infinity and beyond! ”Cosmic Mondparsifal

Sam Johnstone, 15th October

After Jonathan Meese's Parsifal staging was rejected by Bayreuth, he channelled his frustrations into an "arch-Parsifal" which shoots the titular hero into space, with a musical re-imagining of Wagner’s score by Austrian composer Bernhard Lang.

*****

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Michael Klier

Michael Klier macht schon seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert Musik. Als gebürtiger Berliner kam er 1993 nach Amsterdam. Er war Mitglied unterschiedlichster internationaler Ensembles und Orchester. Heute betreibt er eine florierende Unterrichts- und Coachingpraxis. Als Teamcoach bietet er dort Schulungen an, in denen die Kursteilnehmer miteinander komponieren, um so ihre ungenutzten kreativen Potentiale zu entdecken und besser miteinander zu kommunizieren. Denn: Musiker sind die Architekten des Himmels.