Masterful connections
University showcases its excellence in a live ‘Hörprobe’ on Deutschlandfunk Kultur
The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar will present itself to a nationwide audience on 4 February under the motto ‘Teamplay’. The ‘Hörprobe’ concert series from Deutschlandfunk Kultur, in which German Music universities take turns to show off their best sides, is coming to Weimar.
The two-hour concert event can be experienced both in person at the Festsaal Fürstenhaus and live on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on Tuesday, 4 February from 8:00 p.m. Admission is free!
Famous original works, sophisticated arrangements and virtuoso improvisations will be performed, some of them with unusual instrumentation. There will be musically exciting and varied encounters between pop vocal ensembles and the trumpet class, between music theory and piano, the string and piano classes, accordion and guitar, and between a classical vocal ensemble and early music strings.
Between pieces, there will be discussions with the participating students from the university, moderated by radio journalist Carola Malter.
The programme includes Antonio Vivaldi's ‘Credo’ for vocal ensemble with baroque strings and excerpts from Astor Piazzolla's ‘Tango Suite’ for two guitars, followed by an improvisation by the guitarists with two accordionists. Waltzes in the style of Johannes Brahms, composed by music theory and piano students, will be played on the piano for four hands.
The pop vocal ensemble ‘Die Katze im Sack’ joins forces with the trumpet class in the song ‘Hemenway’, specially rearranged for this evening by Prof. Juan Garcia. And finally, the string and piano classes come together in Dmitri Shostakovich's ‘Five Pieces for Violin and Piano’.
Since 1996, the ‘Hörprobe’ has been offering young artists from 24 German Music universities a big stage. Radio presenters guide you through a multi-faceted concert, in which the entire spectrum of training can be experienced through sound, from baroque to modern, from jazz to electroacoustics.
Young musicians are introduced in conversation and thus not only face the audience in the concert hall, but also experience first hand how the room is transformed into a radio studio.
[28 January 2025]