Chamber music at sites of art and knowledge
They are crowd pleasers, and not just for night owls: Since 2010, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz has been opening its institutions for the ›Notturno‹ series of the DSO. At 8 pm, when the museum closes, the meeting of art and music lures: paintings and sculptures can be experienced under unexpected circumstances. Tours with experts present the buildings and collections before a one-hour concert with chamber music ensembles from the DSO to add entirely new facets to the enjoyment of art. In a dialogue held between music, rooms and exhibits, the ‘Notturni’ open up completely new facets of art reception and bring music where – at such a late hour – only stillness and dim light usually envelop fine examples of human cultural expression.
Joseph Haydn’s Passion music, ›The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross‹, will be performed in the composer’s string quartet version at the Bode Museum, home to the sculpture collection, the Museum of Byzantine Art and the Numismatic Collection. Compositions and arrangements for trumpets can be heard at the Museum für Fotografie at Bahnhof Zoo, whilst string quartets by Amy Beach, Claude Debussy and Milica Djordjević will be performed at the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Dahlem.
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