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Christian Dierstein & Dirk Rothbrust

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Hall (DOUBLE), Berlin, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00
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Festival

Musikfest Berlin 2020

33 performances, nine world premieres

Musikfest Berlin 2020 will approach the beginning of the concert season with caution. Its new programme will follow the rules that protective measures from the COVID-19 pandemic have placed on public concerts. Many of the projects that have been prepared across Germany to mark this Beethoven year have fallen victim to the coronavirus crisis and have been postponed until next year.

Programme
Rebecca Saunders: Dust II (2017 – 2020), for percussion duo
Rebecca Saunders: Void II (2015 – 2020), for percussion duo
Overview

Music for Percussion by Rebecca Saunders

In many years of joint sound research with the two exceptional percussionists Christian Dierstein and Dirk Rothbrust, the composer Rebecca Saunders has developed a special vocabulary of sounds for percussion. In the second concert of the Rebecca Saunders portrait, the works “dust” and “void” – dedicated to the two performing percussionists – are presented in a new expansive version.

 

Composers of the 20th and 21st centuries have not only questioned the percussion in a particularly thorough but also particularly radical way. This includes not only to the expansion of the pool of instruments, but also the most diverse ways of making the instruments sound and of entering into a creative exchange with them. The percussionists themselves are increasingly involved in this special metabolism and in the invention of new sounds. These innovations apply in a special way to the works “dust” and “void”, which Rebecca Saunders created for them. In many years of joint sound research with the two exceptional percussionists Christian Dierstein and Dirk Rothbrust, she has developed a unique vocabulary of sounds for this instrument – from familiar percussions to the expansion of the instrumental apparatus with a multitude of new and never-heard sounds such as those of massive car bumpers or singing aluminium strips or crystal bowls and many more.

The arrangement of the instruments is thought out in detail by the composer. The performers do not simply play according to the score but translate the information from the score into a space-sound choreography. The arrangement of the instruments and objects on stage creates a musical-dramatic situation, and the audience can experience how, through the movement, power and virtuosity of the percussionists, the sounds emerge from the silence, take on form, weight and texture and spread out into space in an object-like manner.

“dust” and “void” – both works dedicated to the two percussionists performing – are presented in a new version in this concert.

Venue Info

Berliner Philharmonie - Berlin
Location   Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The building forms part of the Kulturforum complex of cultural institutions close to Potsdamer Platz.

The Philharmonie consists of two venues, the Grand Hall (Großer Saal) with 2,440 seats and the Chamber Music Hall (Kammermusiksaal) with 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller hall was opened in the 1980s, some twenty years after the main building.

Hans Scharoun designed the building, which was constructed over the years 1960–1963. It opened on 15 October 1963 with Herbert von Karajan conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It was built to replace the old Philharmonie, destroyed by British bombers on 30 January 1944, the eleventh anniversary of Hitler becoming Chancellor. The hall is a singular building, asymmetrical and tentlike, with the main concert hall in the shape of a pentagon. The height of the rows of seats increases irregularly with distance from the stage. The stage is at the centre of the hall, surrounded by seating on all sides. The so-called vineyard-style seating arrangement (with terraces rising around a central orchestral platform) was pioneered by this building, and became a model for other concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House (1973), Denver's Boettcher Concert Hall (1978), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (1981), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), and the Philharmonie de Paris (2014).

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet recorded three live performances at the hall; Dave Brubeck in Berlin (1964), Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970), and We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973). Miles Davis's 1969 live performance at the hall has also been released on DVD.

On 20 May 2008 a fire broke out at the hall. A quarter of the roof suffered considerable damage as firefighters cut openings to reach the flames beneath the roof. The hall interior sustained water damage but was otherwise "generally unharmed". Firefighters limited damage using foam. The cause of the fire was attributed to welding work, and no serious damage was caused either to the structure or interior of the building. Performances resumed, as scheduled, on 1 June 2008 with a concert by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.

The main organ was built by Karl Schuke, Berlin, in 1965, and renovated in 1992, 2012 and 2016. It has four manuals and 91 stops. The pipes of the choir organs and the Tuba 16' and Tuba 8' stops are not assigned to any group and can be played from all four manuals and the pedals.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00
Duration:
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