Lecture Recitals

Walter Levin founded the tradition of lecture recitals in 1991/92 at the Wissenschaftskolleg. These are usually carried out by former or current Composers-in-Residence - often in collaboration with solo artists or outstanding quartets.

The lecture recitals, held at irregular intervals, are open to the public.

• May 17, 2023
  Lecture Recital Lucia Ronchetti und das Vokalensemble THE PRESENT/ Olivia Stahn
  Drammaturgie Vocali: Musik für Vokalenensemble à capella
  Oevres:
  "Albertine", Drammaturgia for solo female voice and whispering audience" (2007)
  "Chronicles of Loneliness", Fragments for vocal ensemble from the choral opera (2023)
  "Blumenstudien", Madrigale rappresentativo a cinque voci (2012)
   
• November 7, 2022
  Lecture Recital Gunnar Hindrichs, Dániel Péter Biró, Kai Wessel and the Ensemble Mixtura
  De Natura et Origine für Stimme, Schalmei und Akkordeon
  With pieces from Guillaume Dufay and Dániel Péter Biró
   
• May 25, 2022
  Lecture Recital Liza Lim and Séverine Ballon
  Séverine Ballon (Cello) Liza Lim (Composition)
  Lines, Threads, Traces, and the Cello as a shimmering Landscape
  "Invisibility" (2009) for solo cello with 2 bows
  "An Ocean beyond Earth" (2016) for solo cello, prepared with thread and violin
  "Cello Playing as Meteorology" for solo cello with 2 bows
   
• March 16, 2022 
  Lecture Recital Marco Stroppa and Pierre-Laurent Aimard (a cooperation with Yamaha Music Hamburg)
  Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Piano)
  Marco Stroppa (Composition)
  Selection from Miniature Estrose, 1. Buch (1990-2010)
  Dankgesänge für Pierre-Laurent, Musikkommentare zu den Miniaturen Nr. 1 und 2 (Uraufführung, 2022)
   
• June 19, 2019
  Lecture Recital Beat Furrer, Peter Ablinger, Cantando Admont
  Beat Furrer (Komposition), Peter Ablinger (Komposition), Cordula Bürgi (Musikalische Leitung) and Cantando Admont (Vokalensemble für Alte und Neue Musik)
  Claudio Monteverdi: Canzonette a tre voci (1584)
  Beat Furrer: A sei voci für 6 Frauenstimmen (2017)
  Peter Ablinger: Weiße Litanei für 7 Frauenstimmen (1991)
   
• June 25, 2018
  Lecture Recital Andreas Staier
  "Pour passer la mélancolie..."
  Works for the Cembalo
   
• May 23, 2018
  Lecture Recital Vladimir Tarnopolski Verstreute Worte - strukturierte Klänge
  An Evening with Caroline Melzer (vocals), Axel Bauni (piano) und Jens Peter Maintz (cello)
   
• January 16, 2018
  Lecture Recital Isabel Mundry and Trio Catch
  "Sounds-Archaeologies" für Bassetthorn/Klarinette, Violoncello und Klavier
   
• January 11, 2017
  Alberto Posadas and Quatuor Diotima
  Liturgia Fractal: Dust, Algae, Lung Systems, and String Quartets
   
• May 6, 2015
  Hans Thomalla, Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Ensemble LUX:NM
  Hans Thomalla: MOMENTSMUSICAUX
   
• March 12, 2015
  Hans Thomalla (piano) und Lucas Fels (cello)
  Works of Toshio Hosokawa, Helmut Lachenmann and Hans Thomalla
   
• December 10, 2014
  Lecture Recital Helmut Lachenmann and Trio Catch
  "Allegro Sostenuto" für Klarinette, Violoncello und Klavier (1986-1988)
   
• November 26, 2014
  Lecture Recital András Schiff (piano) and Yuuko Shiokawa-Schiff (violine)
  Music for Friends - in memoriam Yehuda Elkana
   
• June 11, 2014
  Lecture Recital Klaus Ospald and students of the Institute for Chamber Music of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
  Traumes Wirren (1995) für Klarinette, Violine und Klavier
  Wolkenwald, lokale Unebenheiten, Büchners Schatten (2004) für Streichquartett und Frauenstimme
   
• April 30, 2014
  Lecture Recital Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Valérie Aimard (cello) and Diego Tosi (violine)
  Hommage à Elliot Carter - A Portrait
   
• February 5, 2014
  Lecture Recital Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
  The Renewal of Polyphony in the Piano Music of the last Century
   
• June 5, 2013
  Lecture Recital Mark Andre, Yukiko Sugawara (piano), Eeva Rysä (cello) and Christian Hommel (oboe)
  Kompositorische Zwischenräume
   
• April 24, 2013
  Lecture Recital Alfred Brendel and the Cuarteto Casals
  Franz Schubert: Streichquartett Nr. 15 G-Dur, D 887
   
• December 19, 2012
  Lecture Recital Mauricio Sotelo and Gérard Mortier with Yun-Peng Zhao (violine)
  Oper in Madrid – heute
   
• November 30, 2012
  Lecture Recital Helmut Lachenmann and the Quatuor Diotima
  Helmut Lachenmann: Streichquartett Nr. 3 Grido
   
• May 30, 2012
  Lecture Recital Alfred Brendel
  Franz Liszt: Vom Überschwang zur Askese
   
• May 7, 2012
  Lecture Recital Mauricio Sotelo, Quatuor Diotima and Cañizares (Flamenco-guitar)
  Mauricio Sotelo: Artemis, Como llora el agua und La Mémoire incendiée: la guitare
   
• March 7, 2012
  Lecture Recital  Stefan Litwin
  Die Zweite Wiener Schule: Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg und Anton Webern
   
• December 12, 2011
  Lecture Recital  Helmut Lachenmann and the Quatuor Danel
  Anton Webern: Sechs Bagatellen für Streichquartett op. 9; Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett op. 74, „Harfenquartett“
   
• June 29, 2011
  Lecture Recital Helmut Lachenmann with Yukiko Sugawara (piano) and Sarah Maria Sun (vocals)
  „Got lost“ – Musik für Stimme und Klavier
   
• May 16, 2011
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin
  Ludwig van Beethoven: Die späten Klaviersonaten II: Sonate B-Dur, op. 106
   
• December 6, 2010 
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin
  Ludwig van Beethoven: Die späten Klaviersonaten I: Sonate op. 101 A-Dur
   
• November 3, 2010
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Ariel String Quartet
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Streichquartett D-Moll, KV 421
   
• April 26, 2010
  Lecture Recital Alfred Brendel
  Das umgekehrt Erhabene. Komische Möglichkeiten der Musik
   
• January 13, 2010
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin und Hanns Zischler with the Ensemble Resonanz
  Für Imre Kertész
   
• December 4, 2009
  Gipfeltreffen der Streichquartette am 85. Geburtstag von Walter Levin mit dem Amaryllis-Quartett, Cuarteto Casals, Gémeaux Quartett, Kuss Quartett, Cuarteto Quiroga und dem Zemlinsky Quartett
   
• October 21, 2009
  Lecture Recital Jonathan Harvey with the Quatuor Diotima
  Jonathan Harvey: Streichquartette Nr. 2 und Nr. 3; Karol Szymanowsky: Streichquartett Nr. 2 op. 56; Béla Bartók: Streichquartett Nr. 3
   
• May 13, 2009
  Lecture Recital Thomas Larcher with the Quatuor Diotima
  Thomas Larcher: Ixxu, Naunz, Antennen, Requiem für H. für Klavier, Madhares
   
• April 1, 2009
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Vogler Quartett and Isolde Siebert (soprano)
  Alban Berg: Lyrische Suite für Streichquartett
   
• February 25, 2009
  Lecture Recital Toshio Hosokawa with the Lotos Quartett, Ryoko Aoki (vocals and dance) und Katharina Hanstedt (harp)
   Toshio Hosokawa: Matsukaze, Landscape I and Blossoming
   
• January 27, 2009
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin with Salome Kammer (vocals)
  „Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten“ – Hanns Eislers Ästhetik des Widerstands
   
• October 2, 2008
  Lecture Recital Jörg Widmann with the Minguet-Quarett and Gabriele Hierdeis (vocals)
  Jörg Widmann: Streichquartette
   
• November 21, 2007
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Amaryllis-Quartett
  Johannes Brahms: Streichquartett a-moll op. 51 Nr. 2
   
• November 5, 2007
  Lecture Recital Eckart Runge and Jacques Ammon
  Cello Tango
   
• June 13, 2007
  Lecture Recital Hans Zender with Angelika Luz (vocals) and the Athena Quartett
  Hans Zender: Mnemosyne – Hölderlin lesen IV
   
• April 18, 2007
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin with Christoph Schröter (vocals)
  Robert Schumann: Klaviersonate op. 11, Fis-moll
   
• February 28, 2007
  Lecture Recital Toshio Hosokawa with the Quatuor Diotima
  Toshio Hosokawa: Urbilder, Landscape I, Silent Flower
   
• November 22, 2006
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Cuarteto Casals
  Anton Webern: Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett Op. 5
   
• May 3, 2006
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin
  Charles E. Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 „Concord, Mass., 1840-1860“
   
• March 8, 2006
  Lecture Recital Hans Zender with the Ensemble Recherche
  Hans Zender: Eigene Kompositionen
   
• December 6, 2005
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Gémeaux-Quartett
  Wittold Lutoslawski: Streichquartett (1964)
   
• October 31, 2005
  Lecture Recital Josef Tal, Yehuda Elkana and Ulrich Eckhardt with Katharina Hanstedt (harp) and Igor Budinstein (viola)
  Begegnung mit Josef Tal
   
• June 1, 2005
  Lecture Recital Jörg Widmann with Irene Russo (piano) and Carolin Widmann (violine)
  Jörg Widmann: Werke für Soloinstrumente
   
• May 18, 2005
  Lecture Recital Mauricio Sotelo with the Artemis Quartett
  Mauricio Sotelo: Streichquartett Nr. 2
   
• April 6, 2005
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Quarteto Casals
  Alexander Zemlinski: 2. Streichquartett
   
• January 19, 2005
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin
  Franz Schubert: Klaviersonate B-Dur, D. 960
   
• May 12, 2004
  Lecture Recital Jörg Widmann with the Minguet-Quartett
  Jörg Widmann: Kompositionen
   
• April 28, 2004
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Kuss-Quartett
  Ludwig van Beethoven: Große Fuge für Streichquartett, B-Dur, op. 133
   
• November 12, 2003
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin:
  Ludwig van Beethoven: Klaviersonate A-Dur, op.101
   
• June 30, 2003
  Lecture Recital Isabel Mundry and Brice Pauset 
  Die Vorübergehenden
   
• January 8, 2003
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Kuss-Quartett
  Theodor W. Adorno: 12 Stücke für Streichquartett op. 2
   
• June 12, 2002
  Lecture Recital Helmut Lachenmann with Wilhelm Bruck and Theodor Ross (guitars)
  Salut für Caudwell (1977) und Serynade (1998)
   
• March 6, 2002
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Kuss-Quartett
  Arnold Schönbergs 1. Streichquartett (1905)
   
• April 26, 2001
  Lecture Recital Stefan Litwin 
  Musik als Geschichte – Geschichte als Musik
   
• January 30, 2001
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with Stefan Litwin (piano) 
  and the Artemis Quartett
  Mozart-Bearbeitungen von Fugen Johann Sebastian Bachs
   
• May 31, 1999
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Artemis Quartett
  György Ligeti: Streichquartett Nr. 2
   
• May 16, 1999
  Lecture Recital  Walter Levin with the Artemis Quartett
  Arnold Schönberg: 2. Streichquartett (mit Sopranstimme)
   
• June 11, 1998
  Lecture Recital Wolfgang Rihm with Ulf Hoelscher (violine) and Siegfried Mauser (piano) 
  Wolfgang Rihm: Diverse Werke
   
• January 16, 1998
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Artemis Quartett
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Streichquartett A-Dur, KV 464
   
• March 4, 1997
  Lecture Recital Michael Gielen with Laura Aikin (vocals) and Marylin Barnett (piano)
  Alban Berg: Lulu
   
• January 10, 1997 
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Artemis Quartett
  Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett a-moll, op. 132
   
• January 12, 1996
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Artemis Quartett and Christine Whittlesey (Mezzosopran)
  Alban Berg: Lyrische Suite
   
• January 13, 1995
  Lecture Recital  Walter Levin with the Vogler Quartett
  Ludwig van Beethoven: Große Fuge B-Dur, op. 133
   
• January 7, 1994
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Vogler Quartett
  Alexander von Zemlinsky: Streichquartett Nr. 2, op. 15
   
• May 15, 1993
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Vogler Quartett
  Johannes Brahms: Streichquartett Nr. 2, a-moll, op. 51
   
• May 14, 1992
  Lecture Recital Walter Levin with the Minguet-Quartett
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Streichquartett d-moll, KV 421