Music about the big and small questions about what holds us together at our core

For his concert, the exceptional young pianist Gorka Plada from Spain has intensively studied the festival motto "Liberated Time" and developed his very own cosmos of ideas. He is concerned with the dimensions of time from the very large – the infinity of the universe and eternity – to the microscopic level of our existence in the here and now, a sum of the smallest particle movements. To immerse his audience in these wonders that surround us all, the pianist and members of the Festivalcampus-Ensemble will perform works that explore these big questions: Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos and George Crumb’s Makrokosmos, as well as Claude Debussy’s Violin Sonata and an absolute favorite work of the ensemble members: the rousing second piano quintet by Gabriel Fauré, bursting with natural power, freedom and beauty.

With these works, all from the 20th century, Gorka Plada also wishes to issue a warning about the human abysses revealed by the events of that century. Perhaps an awareness of the large and small connections between everything that surrounds us can make our thoughts and actions a little more human?

Concert with intermission

Free admission – donations are welcome