Seven pieces by Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen—»fantasterias« 1–4; »…und dann?…« Nachhall In Memoriam Wolfang Rihm; «Canto della vita di tutti i giorni»; and »Der Tanz ums goldene Kalb oder Die Überforderung der Propheten«—performed by the notabu.ensemble neue musik as a “portrait concert,” conducted where necessary by Christoph Maria Wagner. The selected compositions stretched across the entire bandwidth from the whimsical to the industrial to the dramatic, brilliantly performed by the ensemble, accompanied in print by a quite substantial, well-made festschrift titled »Stationen
Schlingensiepen himself, the ensemble’s cofounder and artistic director since 1983, wasn’t able to attend because of illness, and there were signs and portents—Wagner as stand-in conductor instead of, as lately, Thomas Brezinka, and an entire page on Wagner in the program—to presume that Wagner might be designated to step into Schlingensiepen’s shoes in the foreseeable future.
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Tonhalle DĂĽsseldorf, Trautvetter-BrĂĽckner-Saal, April 29, 2026