Barenboim to perform at Sanderling memorial concert
mainThe late Kurt Sanderling will be laid to rest in a private, family ceremony in Berlin on Monday.
A memorial concert will be held on October 9 at 8pm at the Konzerthaus in East Berlin, where the great and humble man was chief conductor from 1960 to 1977.
Daniel Barenboim will play a concerto. Two of Sanderling’s sons, Thomas and Stefan, will conduct.
Gifts in Kurt’s memory can be made to “Orchesterakademie beim Konzerthaus e.V.”
Konto:6750041750
BLZ:10050000
Thomas and I will be talking about Kurt on the BBC’s Last Word programme, Radio 4, today and tomorrow.
East Berlin hasn’t existed for a while. The Konzerthaus sits in Gendarmenmarkt in the dead center (“Mitte”) of the unified city.
Do you know what the programme will be for the Sanderling Memorial Concert? For me it is a shame that Barenboim will be the conductor, as I believe he dislikes Shostakovich, who was a friend and a central composer to Sanderling. I believe the Shostakovich 15th Symphony would be the ideal work for a tribute/memorial concert to Kurt Sanderling. He was a musician’s musician, very understated, but one of the great conductors in the 20th Century.