| 20:00 | From young to old
Dream-walking with poets
Palm Hall New Garden / Address: Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam
MINGUET QUARTETT
Ulrich Isfort, 1st violin
Annette Reisinger, 2nd violin
Aroa Sorin, viola
Matthias Diener, violoncello
Julian Mehne, speaker
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String quartet F major
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
String quartet "Ainsi La Nuit"
... combined with poems by François Villon, Charles Baudelaire et al.
When the Minguet-Quartett supported by actor Julian Mehne takes off with you for a night flight through space and time on the wings of French poets and tonal poetry makers, the borders between language and music, between then and now are playfully overcome. Baudelaire's "flowers of evil" grow in the greenhouse that is Ravel's music more enticingly than ever. And when surrounded by Henri Dutilleux's lucid weavings of the night, François Villons' wild and tender singings about love, death and splendour and misery of the human condition are suddenly disturbingly close to the present. And outside the nightly park is sleeping and dreaming its own dream ...