Sound of Silence

In the organizer's words:

Chorwerk Ruhr makes silence resound in this concert: The long-gone world of the madrigal flows into the contemporary sound world of jazz pianist and composer Marc Schmolling. His piece Ticho, Czech for silence, provided the decisive impetus for this program, which approaches the Sound of Silence in ever-changing ways: Old meets new, past meets contemporary, composed meets improvised, jazz sound layers combine with sound lines from the early Baroque, text declamations merge into vocalizations, classical vocal sound combines with instrumental jazz. The madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo and Luca Marenzio unfold their magic in the vast space of this much-sounding "silence" by setting death and dreams, mourning and tears to music as forms of silence. Marc Schmolling and his jazz quartet of trumpet, saxophone, violin and bass meet the sound world of Chorwerk Ruhr under the direction of Florian Helgath.