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IGOR LEVIT: IT MAKES A LONG TIME MAN FEEL BAD
The place names “Guernica” and “Lyon” immediately awoke in contemporaries of the period associations for which no words can be found: the first ever workers’ revolt took place in Lyon and was immediately brutally suppressed. Franz Liszt gave charity concerts for the workers and created a monument for them in his music. Dessau’s early composition echoes Picasso’s paint-ing with its outcry at the bombing of the Pyrenean town of Guernica which was the first violation of the international law of armed conflict on the part of the Hitler regime in 1937. Frederic Rzewski based his extensive Ballad No. 5 on a blues-influenced work song sung by black American forced labourers – a “long-time man” is a description for someone serving a long custodial sentence. Simultaneously with Rzewski, Cornelius Cardew bade his farewell to his avant-garde ivory tower in the 1970s: his variations on Erich Weinert’s “Thälmann Lied” represent his first step into political spheres.
Cornelius Cardew: Thälmann Variations (1974)
Frederic Rzewski: Ballade Nr. 5
(It makes a long time man feel bad) (1999)
Franz Liszt: Lyon (1834)
Paul Dessau: Guernica (1937)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonate Nr. 23 f-moll op. 57 Appassionata
PIANO Igor Levit
DURATION ca. 90 minuten / incl. interval
PRICE GROUP C (40/30/20 | red. 35/25/15)
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