HOME MUSIC BERLIN CONCERTS Part II
Soloist: Bar-Shai, Iddo
Soloist: Chochieva, Zlata
Soloist: Dreisig, Elsa
Soloist: Faust, Isabelle
Soloist: Kam, Sharon
Soloist: Melnikov, Alexander
Soloist: Piemontesi, Francesco
Soloist: Porat, Matan
Soloist: Rimmer, Nicholas
Soloist: Schwabe, Gabriel
Soloist: Trekel, Roman
Soloist: Wagner, Jacquelyn
Soloist: Ware, Jonathan
Composer: Schubert, Franz
Composer: Berg, Alban
Composer: Ravel, Maurice
Composer: Granados, Enrique
Composer: Couperin, Francois
Composer: Mahler, Gustav
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig van
Composer: Wagner, Richard
Composer: Brahms, Johannes
Venue: Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Date of Concert: 2020
Playing Time: 03:24:46
Television Director: Schmidt-Garre, Jan
Catalogue Number: PARS033-17
When lockdown was imposed in 2020 many artists began streaming performances from their own homes. In response, pianist Francesco Piemontesi and director Jan Schmidt-Garre launched a concert series to showcase artists living in Berlin, given in the renowed Schinkel Pavillon with an expert technical team assembled at short notice. Fourteen concerts were held, without audiences, under the name Home Music Berlin featuring some of the world's leading instrumentalists and singers. This collection of performances is testament to the resilience and solidarity of these artists during the pandemic.
The concerts reflect the wealth of the music city Berlin. Artists from Russia, Ukraine, the US, England, Israel, Switzerland, France, Denmark and Germany took part, including great musicians such as Alexander Melnikov, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Jacquelyn Wagner, Isabelle Faust, Iddo Bar-Shai and Tabea Zimmermann. It would never have been possible to gather all these artists in a row without the lockdown. Just like a hundred years ago, the city of Berlin showed its very own artistic profile. Anyone who wanted to hear Furtwangler, Nikisch, Wilhelm Kempff, Busoni or Horowitz back then, when musicians travelled much less than they do today, had to come to Berlin. In order to hear Stravinsky, Cortot, Ravel and Satie, people traveled to Paris.
