Beijing Modern Music Festival

For Lisa Streich, the sky above us represents a constant in relation to the brittle realities of life. With Himmel, she paints a plethora of tonal colours with spectral chords, which allow the fluctuation between rupture and continuity to become palpable. In Andělské schody (Angel Steps), Martin Smolka's childhood memories of a path through the landscape popularly known as "angel steps" are echoed in his precise art of orchestration as a microton...