Rememory – Gedenken   Schola Heidelberg | ensemble aisthesis

Soloists Schola Heidelberg, ensemble aisthesis
Conductor Walter Nußbaum

You shall weep and wail, though the world will rejoice. But you will be sorrowful. Yet your sorrow shall be turned to joy.

(J.S. Bach Cantata BWV 103)

Johann Sebastian Bach still resonates with us today, eliciting the deepest emotions through music and text. The central theme is redemption through death and eternal life. Loss, emptiness and grief give way to joy and reassurance, also in the works of Jan Dismas Zelenka. How does our time see these conjoining opposites? How are they captured in music today? The old and the new in constant dialogue, complementing and linking each other. With Ingeborg Bachmann, Berthold Tuercke (Austrian premiere) attempts a contemporary response to the great master to make the time deferred until further notice visible on the horizon. Lisa Streich’s Rememory (Austrian premiere) takes its cue from Toni Morrison’s Beloved – and the mother who rescues her child from this world of humiliation and slavery. In it, Streich reveals the  beautiful in the terrible. In the end, Charles Ives leaves everything in harmony in the face of apparently unanswered questions.