The three Berlin-based composers Eres Holz, Stefan Keller and Johannes Boris Borowski pursue the idea of creating a kind of new rhetoric in their music that explores the relationship between the familiar and the surprising, despite the diversity of their work.
Based on the concept of “Klangrede”, which was coined in the late Baroque period by the composer and music writer Johann Mattheson and taken up again by Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the course of so-called historical performance practice, composers search in their works for modes of expression that trigger a process of understanding in the listener without resorting to concrete traditions.
In order to reinforce this process, two works by each composer will be juxtaposed so that it is possible to listen to and compare the individual works. A kind of acoustic look into the workshop of a young generation of composers with the presentation of one world premiere each.
Programm
Eres Holz: Quintett (2009) 10´for quintett
Eres Holz: Kataklothes (2015) 10´for ensemble (WP)
Johannes Boris Borowski: piano trio (2013) 15´
Johannes Boris Borowski: Dex (2015) 10´for ensemble (WP)
Stefan Keller: Hammer (2015) 11´ for saxophone, percussion and piano
Stefan Keller: Soma oder Die Lust am Fallenlassen (2015) 10´ for ensemble (WP)
The world premieres are commissions by the Zafraan Ensemble, financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Titus Engel (conductor)
Zafraan Ensemble: Liam Mallett (flutes), Miguel Pérez Iñesta (clarinets), Martin Posegga (saxophones), Anna Viechtl (harp), Daniel Eichholz (percussion), Clemens Hund-Göschel (piano), Emmanuelle Bernard (violin/viola), Josa Gerhard (viola/violin), Martin Smith (cello) and Beltane Ruiz Molina (double bass)
