Festival WØD-Weinberg 2020 – Concert 1

About this event

From the Orchesterhaus Salzburg, Austria, comes the first concert of a two-part celebration of the composer Mieczysław Weinberg, with performances featuring the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the Stadler Quartett, and many more.

West-Eastern Divan Salzburg ("WØD") was founded in 2011 with the motto: "walking in the shoes of the other." For the second time, the cultural association presents a festival dedicated to the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996). "What makes Weinberg’s legacy so inspiring," writes the musicologist and Weinberg biographer David Fanning, "is the deep humanity and the quality of the artistic imagination. Weinberg represents the search for two kinds of freedom: freedom to live and freedom to compose."Festival WØD-Weinberg 2020 takes up the idea of freedom and programmes a work by Norbert Sterk (based on a poem by Semier Insayif) as well as traditional Arabic music alongside works by Weinberg, including his String Quartets nos. 7, 8, 13, his second cello sonata, and movements from his Second Symphony and Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra.

Conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla takes part courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.

Your ticket purchase will directly support the participating artists through IDAGIO’s Fair Artist Payout Model: IDAGIO pays 80% of the net revenue directly to the performers.

Stream available to watch for 48h.

Programme

• 1. Concert – approx. 70 min programme 

Repertoire

1. 1. Mieczysław Weinberg

2. Song Cycle "Biblia Cygańska" (Gypsy Bible) Op. 57, (songs 1-3)

3. Lyrics by Julian Tuwim

4. Franziska Weber, Mezzo-Soprano

5. Gaiva Bandzinaitė, Piano

7. 2. Reflections on Weinberg's life and work by priest Martin Eisenbraun

9. 3. Mieczysław Weinberg

10. Sonata No. 2 for violoncello and piano, Op. 63

11. Florian Simma, Violoncello

12. Ariane Haering, Piano

14. 4. „Ramani“

15. traditional Arabic music by the Jewish composer Daoud Hosni

16. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, vocals

17. Frank Stadler, Violin

18. Hossam Mahmoud, Duff

20. 5. Mieczysław Weinberg

21. Concertino Op. 42 first movement: Allegretto

22. Mozarteumorchester Salzburg

23. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor

24. Frank Stadler, Solo violin

26. 6. Mieczysław Weinberg

27. String Quartet No. 8, Op. 66

28. stadler quartett:

29. Frank Stadler, Violin

30. Izso Bajusz, Violin

31. Predrag Katanic, Viola

32. Florian Simma, Violoncello

This performance was filmed at Orchesterhaus Salzburg, Austria, on December 11 and 12, 2020.