Name: HCMF Hangzhou: Francesco Filidei und Georg Friedrich Haas Konzert Portrait
Start: 2025-10-28T19:30:00
Location: Zhejiang Conservatory of Music

Johannes Kalitzke

Klangforum Wien

To dream what, in all its improbability, defies comprehension: This freedom and imaginative power underpin Unsuk Chin’s music. Light and colour are the aggregate states of these sounds, which – in the process of engaging with one another – continually change their consistency, hinting at these dream-landscapes’ vast expanses. Just as Enno Poppe, with his transitions between rigorously structured design and axes that reach out towards unbounded time, conjures an unrestrained, almost dizzying sound experience in his listeners.

Unlimited Time

Wiener Konzerthaus

A major third rings out from the loading hatch of a garbage truck – Gerhard Stäbler perceives it as Morse code of an acoustic journey. Endless loops, which imperceptibly alter our stream of consciousness, cause the acoustic landscape in Bernhard Lang’s piece to implode. A fragmentary nucleus, dissected by Laure M. Hiendl into minuscule particles, oscillates between a sonic still life and animated stasis, hinting at a third possibility. Instead of dogmatic assertions of absoluteness, Luxa M. Schüttler envisions an archipelagic diversity which, ultimately, is not bound to a single focal point. A concert that takes you into the infinite expanses of minuscule dimensions.

Archipelagic Sounds

"A party that sounds like late Beethoven on speed", wrote the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" after the world premiere of Alex Paxton's How to Eat Your Sexuality. The three-part work by the successful British composer, whose music the New York Times described as the most joyous sound in ages, is never overly conceptual, but rather immediate, wild and colourful, is never cerebral, but very direct, wild and colorful.  

Alex Paxton: How to Eat Your Sexuality

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

IRCAM enables composers to push the boundaries of their compositional imagination to completely new horizons. Thus, Isabel Mundry positions the world of the mind and the world as a resonance space as coordinates for a comprehensive sound experience. By contrast, Márton Illés hones the force and energy of individual sounds to utmost sharpness. György Kurtág, entirely without digital-electronic means, translates the text’s poignancy into the implacability of the micro-detail. Precision that glows.