INGEBORG BACHMANN: UNTER MÖRDERN UND IRREN

Program

Ingeborg Bachmann: Unter Mördern und Irren (aus: Das dreißigste Jahr, 1961)
Klaus Lang: Orgelwerke
el sonido luminoso. I
the ugly house I–V/I
marias mantel. I
A. aus ABD.
confluents.
el sonido luminoso. III
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Philipp Maintz: jag die hunde zurück! für sechs Soprane und sechs Schlagzeuger. Nach dem Gedicht Die gestundete Zeit (1953) von Ingeborg Bachmann (2024 UA) - 30'
erweiterte Neufassung 2025 - Auftrag Kölner Philharmonie, KölnMusik und Wien Modern

Cast

Birgit Minichmayr: Lesung
Wolfgang Kogert: Orgel
Sopra~tutti
Nadežda Senatskaya: Sopran
Zsófia Bódi: Sopran
Inga Balzer: Sopran
Carolina Vélez-Murcia: Sopran
Angela Haeeun Kim: Sopran
Manuela Viera: Sopran
Motus Percussion
Leonard Schmidinger: Percussion
Nico Gerstmayer: Percussion
Miguel Llorente: Percussion
Filippo Loat: Percussion
Lorenzo Manquillet: Percussion
Christoph Sietzen: Percussion, Musikalische Leitung

In her gruesome story Among Murderers and Madmen, Ingeborg Bachmann shows what happens "when the world becomes smoke and madness in the taverns of the villages, in the extra parlours, in the back rooms of the big restaurants and in the wine cellars of the big cities". For this unsparing look into the brutal “Good Society” of 1950s Vienna, which had been destroyed at its core by the war, Birgit Minichmayr (photo) has developed a congenial form with the organist Wolfgang Kogert and composer Klaus Lang. Bachmann's Die gestundete Zeit [Deferred Time] took the composer Philipp Maintz out of his comfort zone: the poem accompanies him as an attempt to "brace himself against vanitas and demise", as an intervention and a "form of defense" (Maintz) in the face of harsher days to come. He has turned it into a great piece of music with six sopranos and six percussion instruments (MOTUS Percussion / Christoph Sietzen): jag die hunde zurück! [chase the dogs back!]

Kuratiert von Birgit Minichmayr, Wolfgang Kogert und Klaus Lang
Produktion Wien Modern
Koproduktion Gerald Hanisch