Sound and Vision: Enno Poppe and Arnulf Herrmann in Berlin

Enno Poppe and Ensemble Modern

CocoonDance and Ensemble Modern

By Elena Luporini, 01 September 2022

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“different speeds reveal melodic, harmonic and rhythmic details that were lost before”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Kammermusiksaal, Berlin on 30 August 2022

Herrmann, Hard Boiled Variations – 15 ½ Cycles

Poppe, Körper

Ensemble Modern

Enno Poppe, Conductor

CocoonDance

Ensemble Modern stages a post-war Modernist revival

Kurt Gottschalk, 3rd July

In Frankfurt, a set of new works sound a little too familiar to one pair of old ears.

***11

Ensemble Modern brings music of global migration to New York City

Kurt Gottschalk, 13th April

Ensemble Modern devote a night at Zankel Hall to musical tracings of migratory patterns with works by ex-pat composers born in Cuba, South Africa and the United States.

****1

Ensemble Modern the ultimate precision instrument in Amsterdam

Eleanor Knight, 16th September

Sir George Benjamin conducts Ligeti and his own Into the Little Hill at the Concertgebouw.

****1

Sounds of nature: Francesco Filidei world premiere in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 3rd September

At the Musikfest Berlin, Sir George Benjamin and the Ensemble Modern present an all-contemporary programme reflecting on nature, including Cantico delle Creature.

*****

Ensemble Modern at the Roundhouse

Benjamin Poore, 6th March

Bold and colourful invocations of twentieth-century classics from Ensemble Modern and composer George Benjamin.

****1

Larcher's The Hunting Gun premieres in Bregenz

Sarah Batschelet, 15th August

The restrained pacing of Larcher's opera suited the intimate setting of the Werkstattbühne.

****1

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Elena Luporini

After completing their Master's degree in Musicology in Rome, Elena has now moved to Berlin to dedicate themselves to more things musical. With a publication on Béla Bartók and a seminar at the Humboldt-Universität underway, their interests mostly veer toward 20th-century opera, with some forays into queer musicology. Some of their latest undertakings also include oboe lessons, stencil-making and tea-making.