Musicians invite you to the table! A fine-sounding and delicious experience for the lunch break. With five lunchtime concerts, the Ensemble JungeMusik offers a break from hectic everyday life and a space to be all ears for new types of listening to music and engaging in conversation with the artists. The flutist Erik Drescher cooks for us.

The focus is on five specially composed oboe miniatures, which recure as a theme through the week. Daily oboe solos can be heard from Xuan Yao, Bernd Lauber, Irina Emeliantseva, Kaspar Querfurth and Aigerim Seilova.

Bernd Lauber: King D. (2024)
This six-note motif was originally intended for a theater piece with an English horn player as the protagonist. After the music was not used in the theater piece, I developed the motif into a solo.
Bernd Lauber

Margareta Ferek-Petrić: Two movements from: Searching for spaces (2016)
Searching for spaces is a four-movement work (panic room / blue room / no room / utopic emptiness) that deals with the concept of “abandoned places.” These are always particularly impressive and trigger emotions on many levels. They stand as monuments to beginnings, endings, for human-empty worlds that carry a lot of history. Sometimes they are reclaimed by nature. They will also, sooner or later, disappear.
Margareta Ferek-Petrić

Yasuko Yamaguchi: Zwölf (2001)
I wrote Zwölf in 2001 for the Dutch pianist Marcel Worms. The commission was to compose a short piece inspired by the blues. Like a “typical” blues, my piece is also built on a core (perhaps a kind of “theme”) of 12 bars. These are varied. Zwölf (Twelve) is also an important number in this piece beyond that: Almost all tones are in duodecimal relationships, or rather, pure fifth or fourth relationships to each other.
Yasuko Yamaguchi

Monika Kędziora: anemone nemorosa (2021)
Monika Kędziora is a Polish composer who primarily composes chamber music. Two sources dominate her inspirations – literary texts, mainly in pieces for solo voice, and phenomena and processes of nature, for example the elements. anemone nemorosa is the Latin name for the wood anemone.

Johannes B. Borowski: Wolf (2022-2024)

I
Wolf
Am a wolf
Am wolf
A

II
Wolf I a wolf am wolf a
Problem
And am I am wolf
And forest and forest
I
Problem
And free
Because
Am wolf
Am free
And

III
Wolf kills wolfishly
And
Human kills humanly
Johannes Boris Borowski: Wolf

Johannes B. Borowski: Snow Song (2023-2024)

Fairy snow, fairy snow,
Blowing, blowing everywhere,
Would that I
Too, could fly
Lightly, lightly through the air.
Like a wee, crystal star
I should drift, I should blow
Near, more near,
To my dear
Where he comes through the snow.

I should fly to my love
Like a flake in the storm,
I should die,
I should die,
On his lips that are warm.
Sara Teasdale. Snow Song