Spannungen

Spannungen ("Tensions" or "Voltages") is an annual summer festival for chamber music in Heimbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998. It is subtitled Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach (Music in the Heimbach power plant). Performances take place over one week in the power station Kraftwerk Heimbach. Many of the concerts with friends and colleagues were recorded live, broadcast by Deutschlandfunk and recorded for label Avi.

Spannungen
Concert in the hall of Kraftwerk Heimbach in 2018
GenreChamber music
BeginsJune
Frequencyannual
Location(s)Heimbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Inaugurated1998 (1998)
FounderLars Vogt
LeaderChristian Tetzlaff
Websitewww.spannungen.de

History

Lars Vogt, who appeared internationally as a soloist with renowned orchestras, was a dedicated chamber musician, focused on the repertoire of music from the classical period and the romantic era. He founded the festival Spannungen for chamber music in Heimbach in 1998, to perform annually with friends and colleagues in a historic power plant built in 1905.[1][2][3] The festival is held in June for one week.[4] The location, Kraftwerk Heimbach, is a hydro-electric power station in Jugendstil, with old turbines, brass features and Art Deco lamps. The festival is subtitled for its location: Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach.[4]

Artists of the first festival in 1998 included, besides Vogt, hornist Marie Luise Neunecker, clarinetist Michael Collins, violinists Christian Tetzlaff and Antje Weithaas, violists Tatjana Masurenko and Tabea Zimmermann, cellists Truls Mørk and Boris Pergamenschikow, and pianist Alexei Lubimov.[5]

The festival held world premieres such as Volker David Kirchner's Il Canto della Notte as a commission in the first season,[5] Jörg Widmann's Octet in 2004,[6] and in the 20th season in 2017 Erkki-Sven Tüür's Lichttürme, a piano trio commissioned for the festival.[7]

Many of the concerts were recorded live. Reviewer Jan Brachmann from the FAZ noted that Dvořák's Dumky Trio was played by violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and Vogt, as if the players took time for sinking together into moods ("für das gemeinsame Versinken in Stimmungen").[8]

Final concert of Lars Vogt on 26 June 2022

In 2020 and 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the performances were played, broadcast and recorded without audience.[9] The festival returned to performances with audience in 2022,[10] with the motto Liebe (love).[11] Vogt gave his last concert at the festival, playing in the final concert on 26 June 2022 with Christian Tetzlaff, Barbara Buntrock and Tanja Tetzlaff[12] the Piano Quartet No. 3 by Johannes Brahms.[13]

Since 25 June 2023, Christian Tetzlaff is the new artistic director of SPANNUNGEN.[14]

Performances

Players

Among the more than 300 musicians[7][15][16] who have performed at Spannungen are:

Recordings

Many recordings were made live at the Spannungen festival by Deutschlandfunk for label Avi (or CAvi):

Year Title Musicians
2001 Haydn: Trio in D minor, Hob. XV:23
Schubert: String Quartet, D. 956
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1
Dvořák: Piano Quartet No. 2[17]		 Brandkamp, C. Tetzlaff, Faust, Masurenko, Poppen, T. Tetzlaff, Pergamenschikow, Rivinius, Vogt
2008 Schumann: Piano Quintet
Elgar: Piano Quintet[18]		 C. Tetzlaff, Szulc, Masurenko, Rivinius, Weithaas, Bohórquez, Vogt
2009 Bach – Chamber Music: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in G minor, BWV 1029
Sonata for flute, violin and basso continuo in C minor, BWV 1079
Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018[19]		 Firkins, C. Tetzlaff, Cantoreggi, Roberts, Zipperling, T. Tetzlaff, Viersen, Gerstein, Vogt
2010 Dvořák: String Sextet
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Stücke im Volkston, Op. 110
Aribert Reimann: Solo für Klarinette[20][21]		 Widmann, Lieberknecht, C. Tetzlaff, Donderer, Keulen, Roberts, Rivinius, Viersen, Vogt, a. o.
2011 Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3
Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2[22]		 C. Tetzlaff, Weithaas, Masurenko, T. Tetzlaff, Rivinius, Vogt
2012 Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Huw Watkins: Trio for clarinet, viola and piano[23]		 Weithaas, Hecker, Watkins
Donderer, T. Tetzlaff, Vogt
Manz, T. Tetzlaff, Watkins
2013 Lili Boulanger: Two pieces for piano trio. D'un soir triste; D'un matin de printemps
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Nadia Boulanger: Three pieces for cello and piano
Debussy: Scherzo for cello and piano, L 27
Hindemith: String Trio No. 2[24]		 Li, T. Tetzlaff, Süssmann
Ibragimova, Vogt
Rivinius, Hitaj
Rivinius, Hitaj
C. Tetzlaff, Jacobsen, LaFollette
2014 Dvořák: Six pieces from Zypressen (nos. 1, 3, 9, 11 & 12), Piano Trio No. 1
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1[25]		 C. Tetzlaff, Margulis, Kang, Masurenko, Hecker, Rivinius, T. Tetzlaff, Pilsan, Vogt
2018 Reinhold Glière: String Octet, Op. 5
Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor
Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11[26]		 Kang, Lee, Gergova, Donderer, Weinmeister, Ridout, T. Tetzlaff, Gerhardt
Reszniak, Kufferath, Lee, Rivinius, Pizarro
Kang, Lee, Gergova, Donderer, Weinmeister, Masurenko, T. Tetzlaff, Gerhardt

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