"The ocean is everything I want to be.
Beautiful, mysterious, wild and free."
The program based on the album "Tales of the Sea" takes you into the vast and adventurous world of the oceans and seafaring with three great cycles by Edward MacDowell, Ernest Bloch and Gustave Samazeuilh: "Sea Pieces", "Poems of the Sea" and "Le chant de la mer".
The pieces tell of icebergs, ocean depths, great voyages and starry nights. Of storms and the following sunrise over the sea.
In this concert full of musical discoveries, brilliant but unheard female composers are brought from the shadows into the light.
The female composers Mel Bonis, Amy Beach, Cécile Chaminade, Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann are placed here alongside their famous male colleagues Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.
"If someone goes on a journey, he can tell something." - said the German poet Matthias Claudius more than 200 years ago.
Inspired by this, pianist Lydia Maria Bader takes her audience on a musical journey around the world - on 88 keys. After all, what could inspire the inner imagination better than music?
"Forget every cliché idea you had about Chinese music until then."
Klassik-Heute
Western chinoiserie-inspired works meet famous Chinese folk songs that fascinate with their musical language and figurative titles like "Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon". This music is overflowing with beautiful melodies; melodies that deserve to be heard outside of China.