Mon, 07.09.2026
Summer Festival: «resonance» – Founder's Concert
Concert title
Summer Festival: «resonance» – Founder's Concert
Date
Mon 07.09.2026
Start of the concert
19:30
Contributors
Name of the ensemble
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Rundfunkchor Berlin
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Joana Mallwitz, conductor
Soloists
Florian Helgath, choir student
program
An almost hour-long Ninth Symphony with choir and large orchestra: Who wouldn't think of Beethoven? But "instead of celebrating joy, the beautiful spark of divinity," he evokes in his Sinfonia No. 9 "a world of horror and persecution that continues to cast its shadow," explained Hans Werner Henze. The work is based on Anna Seghers's anti-fascist novel, The Seventh Cross: Seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, but only one of them manages to reach freedom. With great intensity and empathy, Henze portrays the mortal fear of the escapees and the brutality of the persecution: "an apotheosis of the terrible and painful" and at the same time "an expression of the utmost respect for those who resisted during the time of Nazi-fascist terror." The Konzerthausorchester Berlin and its acclaimed chief conductor, Joana Mallwitz, make their festival debut with Henze's harrowing, confessional work. And because Joana Mallwitz is not only an inspiring conductor but also possesses a gift for speaking about music, she will introduce the symphony herself at the beginning of the concert.
Program:
Introduction during the concert:
Joana Mallwitz in conversation with Sebastian Nordmann.
Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
Sinfonia No. 9 for mixed choir and orchestra. Poem based on Anna Seghers' novel *The Seventh Cross* by Hans-Ulrich Treichel.
This concert has no intermission.
Program:
Introduction during the concert:
Joana Mallwitz in conversation with Sebastian Nordmann.
Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
Sinfonia No. 9 for mixed choir and orchestra. Poem based on Anna Seghers' novel *The Seventh Cross* by Hans-Ulrich Treichel.
This concert has no intermission.
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