Erstes Sinfoniekonzert

In the organizer's words:

Pascal Dusapin initially thought of writing a music theater work about Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves. In the end, it became a kind of organ concerto, a "duo for organ and orchestra". Dusapin: "Very abstract questions occupied me while working on Waves, questions of tectonics - how different surfaces shift against and into each other." The forces of these earth plates, which have become music, initially unfold through the opposition and togetherness of "normal" trumpets and signal trumpets. The signal trumpets are positioned to the left and right of the organ. They therefore sound "as if from the organ", sitting in the same boat. The organ itself also begins with these notes, characteristically rhythmized; everything blends together, magnificently orchestrated. Dusapin creates currents, sturdy dams, then sloshing waves, chorales - similar in essence to Anton Bruckner's orchestral treatment. Bruckner's 3rd Symphony is introduced by an engaging piece of classical modernism. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's last orchestral work, Stille und Umkehr, revolves around the note "d": a retrospective, a modern prayer, a meditation that immediately follows Bruckner's Symphony in D minor in our concert. The singing saw, accordion and three double basses remain with Zimmermann at the end, with the snare drum and bass drum crumbling away the last remnants of their strength. And then Bruckner's "D" variations with clarinets, violas, cellos and basses: "Moderate, misterioso".