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supersonic award for CD echowand
of magazine Pizzicato
"With Sebastian Schwab’s outstanding makeover the Theodorakis songs get a totally new look. The performances are extraordinary too, so that this production deserves highest praise."
review (german) by Guy Wagner
Festival International Messiaen Days 2019 Görlitz-Zgorzelec
Meeting Point Messiaen
In the south-east outskirts of the twin city of Görlitz-Zgorzelec lies the former POW camp Stalag VIII A.
120,000 POWs from different nations have been registered at Stalag VIII A from 1939-1945. About 12,000 did not survive their captivity.
Olivier Messiaen composed and premiered his musical masterpiece “Quartet to the End of Time”, while being a prisoner at Stalag VIII A himself. Alongside three fellow prisoners he premiered it on 15 January 1941 in the camp´s theatre barrack.
The annual performance of the piece has become an emboldening and inspiring ritual at the start of the new year for the people of the Euroregion. In 2017 the association connected this traditional to a multi-day festival in order to connect people from both sides of the river Neisse and from all over Europe at this unique place of history (of music). International artists meet with historians researching the region´s recent history and visitors are invited to experience contemporary music in a historical ambience of the Polish-German twin city and to join tours and lectures as to approach the tense topic of art and war.
january 13th 2019
11:30 am
Theodorakis
except Zorbas
Lied and lecture
excerpts from:
Echowand - Mikis Theodorakis / Sebastian Schwab
5 Mélodies populaires grecques - Maurice Ravel
Chants de Terre et de Ciel - Messiaen
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
René Hofschneider, lecture
Celebrated by Le Monde as „the new Stravinsky“, Mikis Theodorakis reached public renown both through his film compositions and his oratorio setting of Pablo Neruda’s Canto General. During this Matinée of words and music, his previously unpublished interviews are interspersed with his songs to give listeners a vivid and uncensored picture of the Paris of Boulez, Xenakis, Messiaen and Theoroakis himself.
english
translation © Emma Rothmann
first showing
DANCE FIGHT LOVE DIE
With Mikis on the Road
film by Asteris Kutulas
(incl. video clip "Einsame Reise"/Echowand)
at the 51st Hof International Film Festival
25.10.2017, 22:15 Uhr, Kino Regina - first showing
26.10.2017, 13:00 Uhr, Kino Scala
29.10.2017, 21:00 Uhr, Kino Classic
Radio
WDR
COSMO october 29th 2017 9 pm - 51 min.
Dance Love Fight - With Mikis on the road at Hof International Festival
with Asteris & Ina Koutoulas, Klaus Salge, Johanna Krumin and many more
The ARD Night Concert
presented by BR classic
Echowand 13 songs (Johanna Krumin, Peter Schöne, Markus Zugehör)
and more
november 29th 2016 02:03 am
BR Klassik, hr2, MDR Figaro, NDR Kultur, kulturradio rbb,
Radio Bremen Nordwestradio, SR2 Kultur-Radio, SWR2 or WDR3
"Echowand - Odyssee" - 5 songs from "Echowand"
arranged for orchestra by Sebastian Schwab
Schwab, Anissegos, Xenakis and more
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Rotman, conductor
november 17th &
november 18th 2016 7:30 pm theater Magdeburg
musical portrait Echowand
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
Friedhelm Ptok, actor
Astrid Vehstedt, script editor
songs from "Echowand“, reading
Permanent Representation of Saxony-Anhalt to the EU
Brussels - Boulevard Saint Michel 80
november 10th 2016 7 pm
musical portrait Echowand
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
Friedhelm Ptok, actor
Astrid Vehstedt, script editor
songs from "Echowand“, reading
Permanent Representation of Saxony-Anhalt
Luisenstraße 18
D-10117 Berlin
november 9th 2016 7 pm
Impuls Contemporary Music Festival in Saxony-Anhalt Germany 2016
press conference with music
guests: Andreas Henke, Markus Frank, Astrid Vehstedt, minister of education Marco Tullner
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
Angela Kaiser (MDR Kultur), presentation
songs from "Echowand“
Permanent Representation of Saxony-Anhalt
Luisenstraße 18
D-10117 Berlin
october, 17th 2016 11:30 am
musical portrait Echowand
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
Friedhelm Ptok, actor
Astrid Vehstedt, script editor
songs from "Echowand“, reading
Permanent Representation of Saxony-Anhalt
Luisenstraße 18
D-10117 Berlin
november 9th 2016 7 pm
musical portrait Echowand
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Markus Zugehör, piano
Friedhelm Ptok, actor
Astrid Vehstedt, script editor
songs from "Echowand“, reading
Permanent Representation of Saxony-Anhalt to the EU
Brussels - Boulevard Saint Michel 80
november 10th 2016 7 pm
"Echowand - Odyssee" - 5 songs from "Echowand"
arranged for orchestra by Sebastian Schwab
Schwab, Xenakis and more
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Rotman, conductor
november 17th &
november 18th 2016 7:30 pm theater Magdeburg
Impuls Contemporary Music Festival in Saxony-Anhalt Germany 2015
co-produced by Anhaltinisches Theater Dessau
Maddy Aldis-Evans: Ascendant in Taurus (first performance)
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Isang Yun: Inventionen
Dmitri Schostakowitsch: Sonata d minor op 40
Johann Sebastian Bach: from BWV 179 aria "Beloved God, have mercy"
Sebastian Schwab / Mikis Theodorakis: selected songs from "Echowand"
Maddy Aldis-Evans, oboe
Uwe Städter, oboe
Gerald Manske, cello
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Laura Bos, piano and harpsichord
Orangerie, Georgium
Dessau, Germany
november 14th 2015 03:30 pm
Maria Farantouri in Berlin - concert in honor of Mikis Theodorakis
guest appearance: Johanna Krumin & Markus Zugehör / CD Echowand
concert hall of UDK Berlin
Hardenbergstr. 33 10623 Berlin - Germany
september 25th 2015 8 pm
film preview: "On the road with Mikis"
selected songs from CD echowand
Johanna Krumin, soprano
Sebastian Schwab, piano
july 31st 2015 7:30 pm
Babylon Berlin-Mitte
WDR 3
Tonart
radio review CD Echowand
july 29th 2015 03:03 pm
presented by Stefan Keim
3 Sat TV-magazine Kulturzeit
Mikis Theodorakis' 90th Birthday / echowand
july 29th 2015 07:20 pm
Deutschlandradio Kultur
july 29th 2015
08:03 pm- 09:30 pm
"Schreib, damit der Tag anbricht!"
human. citizen. composer.
Mikis Theodorakis's 90th birthday
presented by Georg Beck
music: inter alia CD echowand
TV-magazine "artour"
july 23rd 2015 10:05 pm MDR
echowand / Mikis Theodorakis
presented by Petra Dorrmann
Neue Musikzeitung
issue july 2015:
A Narrative of Freedom
"echowand...doubtless one of the best birthday gifts for Mikis Theodorakis"
Georg Beck
Deutschlandfunk