WGT Musik Kammer

14.00

“Alenas sound journeys” – Folk poetry in songs.
Alena Leja – vocals, shruti box, kalimba, kantele

Alena Leja, a Czech singer with Moravian roots, enchants her audience with folk songs, especially those from her old homeland. She sings Czech, Moravian and Slovakian songs and accompanies herself with instruments from India, Malawi (East Africa) and Finland.

16.00

“The New Solarism”
Izabela Kałduńska – Violin, Loop

Izabela Kałduńska, born in Gdansk, Poland, has already performed at the WGT with a string quar-tet in support of Blixa Bargeld. Now she presents herself as a soloist with her compositions for violin and ‘looper’. As an experienced improvisation artist and composer, the Leipzig-based lady dedicates herself to various projects such as the Balkan band Herje Mine and the jazz ensemble ‘Schrabbe, Bach und der Weiße Hai’. She also writes film music and theatre plays. Izabela Kałduńska's music breathes sound and space.

14.00

Quartett Klassik Allgemeinde – „A Gothic Hour of Classical Song“
Nazar Totovytskyi – Violin / İrmak Ülke – Violin / Anna Pelczer – Viola / Cicely Parnas – Cello

The quartet Klassik Allgemeinde breaks through the traditional presentation of classical music with an atmospheric transformation into a performance. The programme ‘A Gothic Hour of Clas-sical Song’ is inspired by Nordic lights.

The following compositions will be performed: Arvo Pärt: ‘Fratres’; Valentin Silvestrov: ‘Icon’; Mike Oldfield: ‘Tubular Bells’; Eric Satie: ‘Quartet No.1’; Pēteris Vasks: ‘Meditation’

16.00

Azabache Tango
Katharina Deissler – Violin / Adriana Miranda – Violin / Esteban Fioroni – Viola / Bruno Bragato – Cello

Azabache Tango emerged from the current tango scene in Buenos Aires and offers a new and sur-prising interpretation of Argentinian popular music in the format of a classical string quartet. Since 2017, they have been performing in Buenos Aires with a repertoire consisting exclusively of contemporary works, mostly their own compositions. The musicians' artistic search follows the tonal effects of the instrument family and always attempts to subvert the expectations of the or-chestration in a playful way.

19.30

“Von blutig bis romantisch – Wie Wang-Fu errettet wurde”
(From bloody to romantic - How Wang-Fu was rescued)

Sabine Schramm - narrator / Samuel Waffler - piano

Musical reading with texts (in German) from ‘Nouvelles Orientales’ by Marguerite Yourcenar and music by Leoš Janaček and Robert Schumann. Secretly, quietly and silently, actress Sabine Schramm and pianist Samuel Waffler conjure up the incredible story of the painter Wang-Fu from medieval China with music by Leoš Janaček and Robert Schumann.
Travel with us to an eerily beautiful distant world. The magic of fantasy inspires art. The music. The word. A story comes to life.