Spring: it's a time of new beginnings, promise, and desire. The program "Spring Unfurls Its Blue Ribbon" doesn't focus on the captivating beauty of nature, but rather on first love and first heartbreak.
The pieces by Isaac, Wolf, and Distler all revolve around the figure of the girl. Love appears as a hope, yet always overshadowed by disappointment. From "Insatiable Love" to "The Forsaken Maiden" to "Farewell."
Ludwig van Beethoven's Spring Sonata provides an ironic counterpoint. The bourgeois chamber music in it acts like a cheerful exclamation: Spring! A cry that quickly fades away. Thus, an evening unfolds about spring as a projection: onto the innocent, the immaculate, nothing more than a reverie. Is spring, in the end, merely a male fantasy?
Concert by the Nikolassee Chamber Choir featuring works by Heinrich Isaac, Hugo Wolf, Hugo Distler, and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as texts by Eduard Mörike
Conductor: Vincent Sebastian Andreas (*1972)
Works performed: Heinrich Isaac, Hugo Wolf, Hugo Distler, and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as texts by Eduard Mörike
Admission: free, donations welcome
