MaerzMusik – Opening – A Garden of Forking Paths
Within a three hours’ space of time, “A Garden of Forking Paths” invites the audience to wander, float and focus on listening, alone and with others. The opening of MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2022 offers a place of encounter under the capacious roof of the Gropius Bau. Archipelagos of music and sound inhabit the spacious environment of one of Berlin’s most beautiful exhibition buildings – from the vast atrium and corridors to show rooms – waiting to be discovered, calling for attention, asking to be followed.
Within this relational landscape of sound, space, time and visitors, MaerzMusik invites you to find your own rhythm and your own path, to gather, disperse and reassemble. For pandemic reasons we provide three openings with nearly identical programmes.
Klangforum Wien will play solo works by Rebecca Saunders, Georges Aperghis, Toshio Hosokawa, Liza Lima, Olga Neuwirth, Salvatore Sciarrino, Enno Poppe and John Cage at the opening concert.
Text: Berliner Festspiele
Rebecca Saunders
– Flesh (2018)
Krassimir Sterev, accordion
Rebecca Saunders
– Dust (2017/18)
Bjorn Wilker, percussion
Toshio Hosokawa
– Voice (2020)
Mikael Rudolfsson, trombone
Toshio Hosokawa
– Senn VI (1993)
Lukas Schiske, percussion
Salvatore Sciarrino
– Ai Limiti Della Note (1979)
Benedikt Leitner, violoncello
Toshio Hosokawa
– Spell Song (2015)
Markus Deuter, oboe
Olga Neuwirth
– Fumbling and Tumbling (2018)
Anders Nyqvist, trompet
Liza Lim
– Wild winged-one (2007)
Anders Nyqvist, trompet
Salvatore Sciarrino
– Agitato cantabile – Capriccio sulla lontananza (2020)
Christoph Walder, horn
Georges Aperghis
– Simulacre IV (1995)
Olivier Vivarès, bass clarinet
Toshio Hosokawa
– Haiku for Pierre Boulez (2000/03)
Florian Müller, piano
Rebecca Saunders
– Shadow (2013)
Florian Müller, piano
Salvatore Sciarrino
– Due notturni crudeli (2001)
Florian Müller, piano
Enno Poppe
– Fell (2016)
Alex Lipowski, percussion
John Cage
– One7 (1990)
Krassimir Sterev Akkordeon
John Cage
– One7 (1990)
Benedikt Leitner, Violoncello
John Cage
– One7 (1990)
Christoph Walder, Horn
TBC
Rebecca Saunders | Georges Aperghis | Toshio Hosokawa | Salvatore Sciarrino | Liza Lim | Olga Neuwirth | Enno Poppe | John Cage