Watch: Vladimir Jurowski’s anti-aggression concert
OrchestrasLast night in Berlin, and on Arte television, Vladimir Jurowski conducted the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in a ‘concert against war and aggression’. No-one needed to be told whose war and whose aggression.
The programme interspersed sections of Haydn’s Seven Last Words on the Cross with newly commissioned works music by composers whose countries are presently caught up in war and aggression.
Here’s the rundown:
Joseph Haydn: “Seven last words of the Redeemer on the cross”, orchestral version of 1785
Olexandr Shchetinsky (Ukraine): “Agnus Dei” for orchestra (world premiere)
Victor Copytsko (Belarus): “Trope for Belarusian cymbalon and orchestra” (wp )
Sara Abazari (Iran): New work (wp)
Victoria Poleva (Ukraine): “Music is Coming” for orchestra and solo violin (wp)
Anton Safronov (Russia): “Sitio … Lacrimae” for orchestra
Boris Filanovsky (Russia): “Consumatum est – cantata Domini canticum novum” for ensemble (wp)
Watch the concert on Arte here.
Some of the new pieces are really interesting. Over at slippedisc towers, we’re gripped.
Well done, bravo !
Letting the music speak when words just don’t seem to deliver the message – fantastic choice!
No thanks. In this instance, I don’t roll with the, ‘give peace a chance; stick a flower in the gun barrel’ trope. There are is a clear and brutal aggressor in this war. That aggressor would roll as far west as he could get away with, including Berlin. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t need to hear a “Trope for Belarusian cymbalon and orchestra”. You first.
“Give peace a chance”. A bogus refulgence.
„Fuck the EU“
Victoria Nuland, US Dep. Secretary of State for European Affairs in 2014 on how to overthrow the Ukrainian government in favor of US interest.
„Sometimes a chain of events is just a chain of events.“ no matter how selective our preconceived perceptions are.
And the poor innocent people in Ukraine die, until we have peace.
The good news is, you don’t have to listen to it. Others can make their own choices.
So this is to atone for programming stalinist monstrosities in Munich, and generally filling the season in Berlin with Russian music, no? Spare me, please.
Nice to see that he is one of the exceedingly few Russians with a genuine sense of humanity.