Ensemble Resonanz

With a boundless desire to make music, the greatest precision and a distinct joy in contrasts, Riccardo Minasi, whose knowledge of music historical sources along with their aesthetic context and the instrumental handiwork of historically informed performance practice is practically unrivalled, savours the full dramaturgical potential of music from the most varied periods. After causing an international sensation with breathtaking Mozart interpretations, he now plans to thrill audiences with a surprisingly different Beethoven. As Principal Guest Conductor of the Ensemble Resonanz, Minasi will conduct Beethoven’s “Eroica” for Musikfest Berlin. With Peter Rundel on the platform, the Ensemble Resonanz also presents the world premiere of the final version of Isabel Mundry’s “Signaturen”, in which the composer quotes the last bar of Mozart’s Sonata for two pianos in D major KV 448 in order to develop it further: “Composing a new music inevitably means positioning oneself in the form of approaching or distancing oneself from older music.” In her works Mundry has always been interested in “changing perspectives on what has gone before, from adaptation through transformation to detachment.” These perspectives are also a central motif in “Depuis le Jour”, where pieces by the Dutch late Renaissance composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck meet Mundry’s own music to the poem “Ethnomühle” by the poet and essayist Thomas Kling, which, in Mundry’s view, is about “how language always carries changing moments of memory within itself.”