During this summer’s session of AlpenKammerMusik, a TV crew visited Liesing to film the festival in action for Austrian television. In this documentary, there are interviews with both the faculty and festival participants as well as footage of both students and faculty in performance.
The international nature of the festival is displayed with participants speaking in English, German, French and Chinese. The documentary is filmed at the music school as well as the Kultursaal. We hope you enjoy the video!
Click here to view the documentary.
What might a retired surgeon from New York, a physicist from Geneva, a biotech executive from San Francisco and a dozen other people with equally diverse backgrounds and residences possibly have in common while they are spending ten days in a remote Alpine valley? The answer is simple. Participate in the AlpenKammerMusik Festival 2007 where professionals and amateurs play chamber music as one community.
AlpenKammerMusik’s ensemble in residence is called Camerata Pangaea. It would have been difficult to find a more appropriate name. Pangaea means “all the land” in Greek and it was the name of the gigantic supercontinent consisting of all of the Earth’s land masses 200 million years ago. Camerata Pangaea’s members, a group of brilliant professional musicians literally come from all corners of the globe. Claudia Ajmone-Marsan (violin) and Tanya Bannister (piano) from London, Stephen Buck (piano) and Suzanne Farrin (composer) from New York, Roland Glassl (viola) from Frankfurt, Guy Eshed (flute) from Tel Aviv and Trey Lee (violoncello) from Hong Kong. They were the coaches and we were the students. We were, nevertheless, a true community.
We met on a Friday in July at the Munich airport, and then a bus took us to the beautiful Lesachtal valley in which the picturesque Alpine community of Liesing provided the setting for the chamber music festival community to play and practice. …
Faculty member Stephen Buck is sometimes a writer of concert notes, and we thought it appropriate to post some of his more recent notes. We hope you learn something and enjoy them.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita in c minor, BWV 826
Italy enjoyed a paradoxical position in 18th century Europe. One the one hand, it was a politically fractured land, colonized and coveted by stronger nation-states to the north. On the other hand, it was the focal point for European culture, the country that produced artists, writers, musicians and philosophers who inspired the rest of the continent. In music, the style of the Italian composers became the standard international language. Different nations would respond to these Italian influences …
