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I look forward to my death / #REDEMPTION (2020)
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REDEMPTION
Benedikt von Bernstorff
translated by Abigail Prohaska
In spring 2020 a crisis of global dimensions broke out: the COVID19 pandemic has affected practically all of us in our everyday lives. And it is accompanied by the extremely bitter feeling that instead of coming together in this situation we have to distance ourselves from one another – at least physically.
The cancellation of events because of the corona crisis has hit musicians as an especially vulnerable section of our society. The very essence of their work lies in the communication with one another and with their audience. Besides online streams and the broadcasting of performances quasi from the artistic „work-at-home“ environment, the older medium of recording concerts has also been given a new boost in significance.
Already in 2019, the soprano Anna Prohaska had entertained ideas about producing an album of arias from Bach cantatas together with the lautten compganey BERLIN and its artistic director Wolfgang Katschner. During the weeks and months of the impending corona pandemic, the project – galvanized by the urgency they felt about making music together – was realized with surprising speed. The lean instrumentation of the cantatas – detrimental to their performance in large concert halls – now proved to be an advantage, since at present musicians are only permitted to get together in relatively small groups.
Bach‘s cantatas might … be the very apposite for us in the current situation because … [they] were composed as a (religious) aid for people in their everyday lives. … artists strive to "show a facet of the world as lived by people in the Baroque era,“ when the preoccupation with sickness and death was an everyday habit of mind.
… the two arias from the cantata Ich habe genug (I have enough) represent the "beating heart“ of the album. … Bach‘s music, so mournful in content, is often felt to be consoling as well … .
Benedikt von Bernstorff
translated by Abigail Prohaska
In spring 2020 a crisis of global dimensions broke out: the COVID19 pandemic has affected practically all of us in our everyday lives. And it is accompanied by the extremely bitter feeling that instead of coming together in this situation we have to distance ourselves from one another – at least physically.
The cancellation of events because of the corona crisis has hit musicians as an especially vulnerable section of our society. The very essence of their work lies in the communication with one another and with their audience. Besides online streams and the broadcasting of performances quasi from the artistic „work-at-home“ environment, the older medium of recording concerts has also been given a new boost in significance.
Already in 2019, the soprano Anna Prohaska had entertained ideas about producing an album of arias from Bach cantatas together with the lautten compganey BERLIN and its artistic director Wolfgang Katschner. During the weeks and months of the impending corona pandemic, the project – galvanized by the urgency they felt about making music together – was realized with surprising speed. The lean instrumentation of the cantatas – detrimental to their performance in large concert halls – now proved to be an advantage, since at present musicians are only permitted to get together in relatively small groups.
Bach‘s cantatas might … be the very apposite for us in the current situation because … [they] were composed as a (religious) aid for people in their everyday lives. … artists strive to "show a facet of the world as lived by people in the Baroque era,“ when the preoccupation with sickness and death was an everyday habit of mind.
… the two arias from the cantata Ich habe genug (I have enough) represent the "beating heart“ of the album. … Bach‘s music, so mournful in content, is often felt to be consoling as well … .
I look forward to my death/#REDEMPTION is a collaboration of
NAC and lautten compagney BERLIN
Direction & choreography - Hayley Glickfeld Bielman
Dance & choreography - Briana Joie Dickinson
Film & camera - Jubal Battisti & Harumi Terayama
Music - "I look forward to my death" from I have enough, Cantata 82a by J.S. Bach
Performed by - lautten compagney BERLIN
Musical direction - Wolfgang Katschner
Soprano - Anna Prohaska
Flute - Ulrike Ködding
Violin - Birgit Schnurpfeil, Anne von Hoff
Viola - Ulrike Paetz
Cello - Ulrike Becker
Harpsichord - Daniel Trumbull
Theorbo - Andreas Nachtsheim
Sound engineer - Benjamin Dreßler
Dance & choreography - Briana Joie Dickinson
Film & camera - Jubal Battisti & Harumi Terayama
Music - "I look forward to my death" from I have enough, Cantata 82a by J.S. Bach
Performed by - lautten compagney BERLIN
Musical direction - Wolfgang Katschner
Soprano - Anna Prohaska
Flute - Ulrike Ködding
Violin - Birgit Schnurpfeil, Anne von Hoff
Viola - Ulrike Paetz
Cello - Ulrike Becker
Harpsichord - Daniel Trumbull
Theorbo - Andreas Nachtsheim
Sound engineer - Benjamin Dreßler
Necessity Arts Collective
Hayley Glickfeld Bielman, Artistic Director
www.necessityarts.weebly.org
necessityarts at gmail dot com
Hayley Glickfeld Bielman, Artistic Director
www.necessityarts.weebly.org
necessityarts at gmail dot com
