All ears

Music by Luciano Berio and story by Italo Calvino

on Sunday, 4 May 2025 in the RAMPE at 7:30 pm
Gerhardtstr. 3, 30167 Hanover
within the framework of the KLANGBRÜCKEN 2025 Festival

Prices 15/10 €
VKK: Reservix, box office from 7 pm at the Rampe

Over the course of 44 years, the Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003) created a cycle of works that expanded the boundaries of music: 14 "Sequenzas" for solo instruments.
Four of them - Sequenza IV for piano, Sequenza VII for oboe, Sequenza VIII for violin and Sequenza III for soprano - will be presented at the Festival Klangbrücken in a new, experimental combination.

Our idea:

The Ensemble Megaphon combines Berio's virtuosity with the story "A King Listens" by Italo Calvino. Both works explore how perception and interpretation shape our world: Berio through sound colours and live electronics, Calvino through the metaphor of listening as a search for order.

Our concept:

We break down stylistic and genre boundaries - through acoustic, light-artistic and electronic interventions. In doing so, we adapt Berio's idea of expanding works and invite you to experience this process.

Moderated by us musicians, the performance becomes a dialogue. We share our thoughts, ideas and artistic decisions with you.

Programme:

Arrangements and musical, literary and visual intermezzi of sequences by Luciano Berio:

Sequenza IV for piano
Sequenza VII for oboe
Sequenza VIII for violin
Sequenza III for soprano
Excerpts from "A King Listens" by Italo Calvino

Contributors:

Tatjana Prelevic, piano, composition
Lenka Župková, violin, composition
Sophia Körber, vocals, composition
Vlady Bystrov, oboe, composition
Andre Bartetzki, live electronics, composition

Tayfun Bademsoy, voice