Hornissimo festival concert

A feast for the horn. The big festival concert of Hornissimo, the festival for horn of the BDB Music Academy Staufen, spans a fasci­nating arc from the histor­ical sound world of the natural horn to gripping contem­po­rary music — crowned by a top-class world premiere.
Inter­preted by Stefan Berrang and Alexandre Zanetta, impres­sive works for natural horn are performed that bring the original, archaic magic of the instru­ment to life. Together with other performers, Saar Berger focuses on contem­po­rary sound languages for one or more horns — sonically diverse, virtuosic and full of expres­sive­ness.

A highlight of the evening is Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 1, played by Samuel Seiden­berg, a milestone in horn liter­a­ture full of youthful bril­liance and romantic expres­sive­ness. A very special moment awaits the audience with the world premiere of Enjott Schnei­der’s Horn Concerto No. 1 “The Dream of Eternity”, a work about the friend­ship between Richard Wagner and King Ludwig II, impres­sively premiered by Christoph Eß.

The concert is rounded off by the Hornissimo instruc­tors, who present rousing, “groovy” liter­a­ture in an ensemble of 6 to 12 horns — a powerful finale full of energy and joyful playing. A concert that cele­brates the full diversity of the horn: tradi­tional, modern and visionary.