Concerts of the Donaueschingen Music Days on the radio
The concerts of the Donaueschingen Music Days from October 18 to 20, 2013 are sold out. However, almost all world premieres can be followed on the radio. Performances by Swiss ensembles, including the trio Hans Koch, Martin Schütz and Fredy Studer and the singer Shelley Hirsch, will also be broadcast.
In total, the radio station SWR2 will devote around 22 hours of broadcasting time to the festival. The broadcasts will kick off with the music magazine SWR2 Cluster, which will be broadcast live from Donaueschingen for the first time on Friday, October 18 (3 p.m.). In it, Wibke Gerking and festival director Armin Köhler will discuss the program of this year's Musiktage with participating artists: large-scale musical forms in the age of computer aesthetics.
The first highlight will be the broadcast of the opening concert at 8 pm, featuring works by Walter Zimmermann and Bernhard Lang under the direction of Pascal Rophé, Wolfgang Lischke and Christopher Sprenger.
On Saturday, October 19, SWR2 will broadcast the choral ensemble concert with the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Ensemble musikFabrik and the Ircam under the direction of Marcus Creed with works by Hèctor Parra and Raphaël Cendo live at 3 pm. At 5 pm, Klangforum Wien under Enno Poppe will present his work Memory. At 8 pm, SWR2 will broadcast the NOWJazz Session with Tobias Delius, the trio Hans Koch, Martin Schütz and Fredy Studer and the singer Shelley Hirsch.
Sunday, October 20, opens on SWR2 at 11 a.m. with a live broadcast of the ensemble concert with Klangforum Wien under Emilio Pomàrico with Situations by Georges Aperghis. At 2 pm, the Karl Sczuka Prize for Radio Drama as Radio Art will be awarded to Oswald Egger and Iris Drögekamp, and Rafael Nassif will receive the sponsorship award.
The final concert with the Wind Trio Recherche, the Ensemble Modern, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg under François-Xavier Roth with works by Alberto Posadas, Bruno Mantovani and Philippe Manoury will be broadcast from 5 pm.
All broadcasts from the Donaueschingen Music Days can be heard as a live stream on SWR2.de. Current daily videos and a blog provide insights into rehearsals, reports and reactions.
More info: www.swr2.de
