Festival Voices

Sat 14.10.23, 19:00CET

Radialsystem
Berlin

The Tower of Babel

Part 1

Alexey Sysoev: Col Pugno

Age Veeroos: I see feathers growing in the sand of the deserts

Jamilia Jazylbekova: Les illusions de l‘âme

Dirigent: Peter Rundel

Part 2

Anna Korsun: UCHT

Asia Ahmetjanova: Beth

Aram Hovhannisyan: Strophes-Segments

Conductor: Vitali Aleksenook
Markus Deuter, Oboe

Anders Nyqvist, Trumpet
Krassimir Sterev, Accordion

Michele Marelli, Clarinet

Part 3

Dariya Maminova: I don’t know whether the Earth is spinning or not

Valery Voronov: Gigantomania

for Tamtam solo

Alexander Khubeev: The Codex of Thoughtcrimes

for ensemble and four voices (2022) ^GP

Conductor: Peter Rundel

Conductor: Vitali Aleksenook

Dariya Maminova, Voice

Björn Wilker, Percussion

Neue Vocalsolisten

Additional Information

Huge shadows lie over the many scenes of new music in the region of the former Soviet Union, which is currently once again the scene of violent geopolitical conflicts. The lively exchange of leading composers and performers between Tbilisi and Minsk, Yerevan and Moscow, Tashkent and Kyiv has come to a standstill, the dialogue to a standstill. Music is once again in danger of being reduced to national self-assertion and the propaganda shield of supposed superiority.

With the multi-part concert and discourse project »THE TOWER OF BABEL«, Klangforum Wien designs a program that brings together uncompromising artistic positions from Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine. Alternating between concert and conversation, the project explores the new in the music of today’s post-Soviet societies.

Like a »Tower of Babel«, the project is intended to stand out from this currently so battered cultural landscape: polyphonic, still utopian, and shining as a refuge as well as a vantage point in equal measure.

The program has already been performed with great success at the Vienna Konzerthaus on June 18/19, 2023.

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