Radix – Wurzeln im Exil On Tour

About the programme

A leap into the unknown – for many people, this is exactly what exile means. With its current ecological and social problems, the whole world seems to be on the brink of uncertainty. Time, says Artistic Partner Patricia Kopatchinskaja, to reflect. On nature, as Andrzej Panufnik does with Arbor Cosmica. Panufnik's homage to the magical power of trees, accompanied by photographs by Marco Borggreve, is the line that connects the program.

Also featured is Patricia Kopatchinskaja as a composer, and music by exiled composers such as Alfred Schnittke's deeply moving Sonata for cello and piano or a melancholically pensive tone poem by the Belgian composer Eugène Ysaÿe, who emigrated to the USA and unceremoniously christened it Exile! The cuckoo whistles through a Moldavian folk song, Cucuşor cu pană sură. And Georg Philipp Telemann lets the frogs sing in his violin concerto, Die Relinge. So – the world has not yet come to an end.