Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Johann Sebastian Bach

Moderated concert in German as part of bauhaus music 2024 in cooperation with Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin.

You will hear:

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 3, BWV 1048
• Alban Berg: Violin Concerto, Solo-Violin: Kolja Blacher
• Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106

On Friday evening, works by Alban Berg and Béla Bartók will be performed alongside Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, presented by the Deutsches Kammerorchester in the Church of St Elisabeth.

Both Alban Berg and Béla Bartók maintained close contacts with numerous members of the Bauhaus and were regular guests at the school. They pioneered modernist trends in music which disregarded musical conventions and called for the equal treatment and “liberation” of all tones. Similar to the field of design at the Bauhaus, these composers questioned the validity of any and all time-honoured certainties in music.

The meticulously structured music of Johann Sebastian Bach stands in stark contrast to these modern compositions. However, Bach was a role model for many members of the Bauhaus and the musical avant-garde which found the formal stringency of Bach’s masterful fugues especially liberating.

Direction: Karl-Heinz Steffens
Host: Kai Hinrich Müller

Ticket prices:
Get your Early Bird tickets here until 31 August 2024 at a price of 15 euros, *reduced 7 euros per concert, plus fees.
From 1 September 2024: Regular 20 euros, *reduced 10 euros per concert, plus fees.

*Eligible for discount are: Pupils under the age of 18, trainees, students, volunteers (BFD, FSJ, FÖJ), senior citizens, severely disabled persons, recipients of ALG 1 and citizen's benefits, Berlin Pass holders, Members of Bauhaus-Archiv Association. Please carry proof with you.