Under the heading "Time Machine", the 11th Philharmonic Concert as part of the Duisburg Philharmonic's "New Ways" project offers a journey back in time: The program refers to a concert that was played exactly 100 years ago as part of a music festival in the city of Duisburg. The "Concerto for Orchestra" by Paul Hindemith had its premiere there, conducted by the prominent General Music Director Paul Scheinpflug. Also on the program from 100 years ago: Beethoven's Violin Concerto and music by Rudi Stephan, who was one of the most promising young composers at the time before he died tragically young in the First World War. Instead of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Axel Kober has put his 4th Piano Concerto on the program, in which the young British pianist and rising star Isata Kanneh-Mason makes her debut with the orchestra. And as a musical tribute to the former General Music Director, there is also the "Shakespeare Overture" by Paul Scheinpflug. However, the concert is not just a reconstruction of Duisburg's rich musical history, but also a lively and critical examination of history: the music festival took place on the occasion of the "millennial celebration of the Rhineland", so it was definitely in a German-national context.

A music festival from old times

Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

Siegfried Rivinius normally sits at the podium of the first violins with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, where he has been first concertmaster since 1985. In addition to the large symphonic repertoire, he also has a strong passion for the intimate form of chamber music. And so in 1995 he founded the RIVINIUS Piano QUARTET together with his brothers. The four have now put together an exciting program for the last chamber concert of the season. It begins with the first piano quartet by Camille Saint-Saëns, which he composed when he was just 18 years old but never published during his lifetime. Stephen Hartke follows, a composer who is even personally known to the quartet. His five tableaux from “The King of the Sun” refer to paintings by the well-known painter Joan Miró. The finale is the expansive Piano Quartet in E major by Paul Scheinpflug, who is also no stranger here in Duisburg: almost exactly 100 years ago he was the orchestra's General Music Director. The concert is therefore also an examination of Duisburg's music history, as is also the case in the 11th and 12th Philharmonic Concerts.

Paul Scheinpflug

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