Great artists of all times have been inspired by the same moon. For this programme we chose three different visions that take their inspiration from our nightly companion – and added a small more mundane appetizer…
Shakespeare’s wonderful comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream was set to music by Mendelssohn for full sized orchestra, choir and two solo voices. LUDWIG asked composer Max Knigge to reduce the score to 10 instruments and 1 soprano. The result is a virtuoso performance which you will not lightly forget by LUDWIG’s multi-talented musicians. Shakespeare’s nocturnal pranks are mirrored by the dramatic developments in Schönberg’s Transfigured Night, played by LUDWIG in the version for string sextet.
Max Knigge composed a small jewel for LUDWIG’s two clarinetists, who have a soft spot for one of the forgotten instruments in music history, the basset horn: Moonvision for two basset horns and strings. To complete the programme, our noble basset-players will perform Mendelssohn’s Konzertstück no 1 for clarinet, basset horn and strings, which, as the story has it, was written in exchange for a home cooked plate of ‘dampnudeln’!
