Liberating Echoes-Festival: Abschlusskonzert "Flowing Echoes - Vergessene Perspektiven"

In the organizer's words:

Playing Island - A chamber music project

"Liberating Echoes" is a chamber music festival that explores the inseparable connection between music, art and human freedom. It is a festival of remembrance, reflection and transformation 80 years after the end of the Second World War.

The closing concert of the "Liberating Echoes" festival at Villa Elisabeth is not intended as a historical correction, but as a conscious expansion of musical horizons - an evening that makes it possible to experience the female gaze not as an exception, but as a natural part of an open, diverse world of sound. The works of Fanny Hensel, Amy Beach and Michaela Catranis stand for independent compositional voices that open up spaces of inner freedom, formal clarity and poetic power. In the interplay with Gabriel Fauré's finely illuminated piano quartet, it becomes audible: femininity in music is not a stylistic feature, but a question of perception - a dialog borne by artistic autonomy, tonal intimacy and resonance beyond attributions.

Michaela Catranis' Widening Circles (2025), inspired by Rilke's poem of the same name, unfolds as a wide breathing sound space - music as growing movement, as inner unfolding.

Amy Beach's late Piano Trio op. 150 surprises with its rhythmic vitality and fine tonal balance. As one of the first internationally recognized female composers in the USA, she wrote music with ambition, depth and stylistic independence.
Fanny Hensel's String Quartet in E flat major, long wrongly attributed to her brother Felix, is a work of artistic self-assertion - structurally bold, emotionally open and unique in its time. Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor completes the program with quiet inwardness and translucent emotionality - not as a contrast, but as a mirror of a polyphonic dialogue. This creates a shared sound space beyond roles - sensitive, open and resonant.

Program: "Flowing Echoes - Forgotten Perspectives: Women Composers and New Resonances"

Michaela Catranis (*1989): Widening Circles (2025)
Amy Beach (1867-1944): Piano Trio Op. 150
Fanny Hensel (1805-1847): String Quartet in E flat major
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Piano Quartet No. 2, G minor, Op. 45

Performers:
Tobias Feldmann, violin
Lisa Jacobs, violin
Karolina Errera, viola
Andrei Ioniță, violoncello
Catalin Serban, piano

Tickets:
26 €, reduced 18 € , free choice of seats online via Eventim lightand at the Box Office.

Organizer:
Spielende Insel e.V. in cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth

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