Like any language, music follows rules that we often understand without knowing exactly what they are. Selected works by Purcell, Bach, Mozart and Schubert are used to show how themes such as suffering and redemption reach the audience through musical forms.

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With their chamber music series, the musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra fulfil a wish: inspired by productions from the opera programme, they put together concert programmes with works that are close to their hearts. The concerts take place in the stage sets of the respective current Tischlerei production.

Concert program

Part 1

Passus Duriusculus as a musical-rhetorical figure of suffering
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756 - 1791]
from "Dissonance Quartet" String Quartet in C major KV 465
1st Adagio - Allegro

Johann Sebastian Bach [1685 - 1750]
Choral (tba)
Arr. for brass ensemble

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for violin and piano in E minor KV 304

Johann Sebastian Bach
Choral (tba)
Arr. for brass ensemble

Franz Schubert [1797 - 1828]
from String Quartet in G major D 887
1st Allegro molto moderato

- Intermission -

Part 2

Passion from a programmatic point of view
Henry Purcell [1659 - 1695]
from DIDO AND AENEAS
"When I am Laid in Earth" (Dido's Lament)

Sofia Gubaidulina [*1931].
"Lamento" for tuba and piano

Anton Webern [1883 - 1945]
Five sacred songs op. 15
1. „Das Kreuz, das mußt' er tragen“
2. „Morgenlied“
3. „In Gottes Namen aufstehn“
4. „Mein Weg geht jetzt vorüber“
5. „Fahr hin, o Seel', zu deinem Gott“

Johann Sebastian Bach
from "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort" BWV 60
"Es ist genug"
Arr. for brass ensemble

Alban Berg [1885 - 1935]
from Violin Concerto "Dem Andenken eines Engels" (To the Memory of an Angel)
2nd movement, Adagio (chorale variation)
Arranged for chamber instrumentation by Johannes Mirow