Leopold Mozart Quartett mit Luise von Garnier (Mezzosopran) & Susanne Gutfleisch (Violoncello)

In the organizer's words:

Leopold Mozart Quartet with Luise von Garnier (mezzo-soprano) & Susanne Gutfleisch (violoncello)
In the evening a carillon sinks that no longer sounds

Tobias PM Schneid:
Third string quartet "Schumann"

"Torso - Fragment - Commentary"

Composed interpretations of piano songs
by R. Schumann and F. Schubert
for string quartet and low female voice

Intermission

Heinz Winbeck
"View into the stream"
Quintet for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos

"Cheerful ... Lonely ... Quiet"
Helian fragments after Georg Trakl
for low female voice and string quartet

Heinz Winbeck and Tobias PM Schneid 'write works that are probably best described as "existential music".
could be approached with the term "existential music". Their compositions never outline purely
musical topoi, but utilize the unique possibilities of the phenomenon of MUSIC in order to
to reflect existentially moving themes beyond any linguistic formulation of the respective composer.
existentially moving themes.
In the two works by Tobias PM Schneid, these are, on the one hand, the environmental situation that threatens us all.
environmental situation. Metaphorically taken up by composing piano songs by Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert
Schubert are deconstructed compositionally in a new reading, and in this way a creeping climatic
climatic process of decay can also be experienced in music.
On the other hand, in the 3rd string quartet "Schumann", which as a musical psychogram, as
approach to and distance from the composer Schneid felt to be a kindred spirit and who he revered.
and revered composer.
The string quintet "Blick in den Strom" (after Nikolaus Lenau's poem of the same name) by
Heinz Winbeck thematizes the ephemeral, uses the image of the river musically as a
flowing, quite in the sense of being carried away, at the mercy of the forces of an existential stream.
being at the mercy of existential currents. And so the score is a 486 bar long, uninterrupted continuum
uninterrupted continuum of relentlessly enervating semiquaver runs that lead into a surprising
and emotionally-metaphorically completely contrary view of the world.
Alongside Nikolaus Lenau, Georg Trakl was a central literary fixture in Heinz Winbeck's thinking.
of his thinking.
Trakl's Helian drafts, which with their apocalyptic, enigmatic lyricism that also repeatedly evokes images of nature
lyricism, death, decay and here again the transience of the human condition
were and are the basis of an extremely unusual and at the limits of the realizable
of realization for low female voice and string quartet.
"Heiter...Einsam...Leise" is a musical-psychological journey of the soul into the abysses of human distress
of human distress, loneliness and forlornness, which deliberately pushes the compositional boundaries of what is
of what is possible in terms of interpretation.
A unique monolith in the canon of contemporary music.

Leopold Mozart Quartet, Luise von Garnier (mezzo-soprano), Susanne Gutfleisch (violoncello)

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