Event

About the idea behind the new series

Sophisticated concert programs are the result of complex considerations that should take a back seat to the musical experience at the moment of performance. The same applies to the individual compositions of such a program, which hopefully presents itself to the ear as a finished product. The program booklet often attempts to anticipate and answer the questions that arise for the audience as best as possible.

What hardly plays a role in this tried-and-tested model are your questions arising from the moment of listening, your reaction to the music, and, of course, your wishes. Creating a suitable framework for this is the idea behind BETRIEBS|WERK|SCHAU, our new concert series in the rehearsal room. For each edition, a composer is invited to present one of their own chamber music works. Sung and played by the members of our ensemble and moderated by J. Marc Reichow or Ekkehard Windrich, we explore with you what lies behind the work.

We dive in as deeply as you want: repeat a single passage or an entire section? Explain the meaning of certain playing or singing techniques? Express incomprehension or criticism? Go ahead, we are KlangForum and we take our name seriously. This is about personal contact between performers and audience, and en passant we would also like to show you what the lion's share of our work consists of and where it takes place: not on stage, but here in the rehearsal room. It offers adequate production conditions and costs rent accordingly, but entry to the BETRIEBS|WERK|SCHAU is free and the atmosphere is as attentive as it is casual.

As an opening ritual, each concert is preceded by a Gregorian chant—part of a magnificent, lively repertoire that is waiting to be (re)discovered, just like contemporary music.

About the first event

The guest on Thursday, January 29, at 19:30 o'clock. is composer Lydia Weißgerber, born in Dresden in 1975.

The organist, music theorist, doctor of musicology, and university lecturer, who studied composition under Jörg Herchet in Dresden and is something of an insider tip in her field rather than a career networker, will provide insights into her compositional thinking.

She considers its core idea to be “that artistic creation can be understood as a form of amplifying resonance to the pre-compositional order characteristics of the sound material.”

Dorothea Jakob (soprano) and J. Marc Reichow (piano) will dedicate a musical WERK|SCHAU (work exhibition) to the great song cycle based on texts by Jakob Böhme from 2016-18 (with the active participation of the composer), and Ekkehard Windrich's conversation with Lydia Weißgerber will also touch on more recent compositions—with input from the audience!

Entrance is free.