{Appointment} With Manuela Schwesig & Gerhard Schröder at the Usedomer Music Festival

Pure symbolic power at the Usedom Music Festival: A special concert in the historic Peenemünde power station that celebrates German unity especially in the Baltic Sea region - with Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig and former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Special concert at the historic location

The Usedom Music Festival has made a name for itself as one of the world's largest themed festivals with a musically exclusive program from the respective host country, many international artists such as Kurt Masur, Mstislaw Rostropowitsch, Ute Lemper, Teodor Currentzis or the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester have already performed here. State guests were also there again and again: Mikhail Gorbachev, Angela Merkel, Queen Silvia of Sweden and many more.

The special concert 12 Years of German Unity took place in the historic power plant in Peenemünde on September 30th - at the same time a festive outlook on the 27th season of the Usedom Music Festival, which will be hosted by Norway in 2020. Also among the audience: the incumbent Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig, and former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Musical staging: classic meets modern

However, the concert is a bit too modest for the extraordinary staging Term: The event was a homage to the entire Baltic Sea region with works by composers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, the Baltic States, Poland and Germany. The creative composition of the music was fantastic:

Young composers such as Gediminas Gelgotas, Henryk Górecki, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Carl Nielsen, Sven Helbig, Robot Koch and Kristjan Järvi mixed with the sounds of well-known masters such as Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake and Jean Sibelius' Finlandia. The classic pieces were mixed with recorded electronic effects from club music, a successful remix of tradition and Innovation.

Beethoven in the Nordic Pulse

Special Significance came to Beethoven in his anniversary year: the movements of his works were placed in a new context, mixed up, which made it possible to discover completely new facets of Beethoven's symphonies, especially his gripping, concise rhythm. The almost athletic interpretation of the first movement of Beethoven's well-known 5th symphony was particularly outstanding.

In addition, there was their own stage design with a projection coordinated with the “Nordic Pulse” program, conductor Kristjan Järvi and the young musicians were almost dancing to the music, so much was their enthusiasm for innovation and playing.

Baltic Sea Philharmonic

In general, the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, which was founded on Usedom and initiated by the Usedom Music Festival, is special in several respects: conductor Kristjan Järvi and the musicians, it seems, merge on stage, so to speak, into a single organism, an impression that is created as a result that the entire 70-minute program is performed completely by heart while standing.

The orchestra is also a successful symbol of the regained unity in the Baltic Sea region, which began with German reunification thirty years ago. The musicians come from all countries around the Baltic Sea. Soloists from the orchestra excelled in various pieces, e.g. violinists Evgenia Pavlova and Ksenia Ivakina in Aurora, clarinetist Alexey Mikhaylenko and basso player Arseniy Shkaptsov in To the Skies by Gediminas Gelgotas or violinist Maximilian Procop in Snow White from White Dragon” by Kristjan Jarvi. The orchestra has half Welt with innovative concert ideas, completely memorized programs and inspiring collaborations and has performed all over Europe to the United Arab Emirates. On March 14th and 15th, 2021 the orchestra can be seen in Hamburg and Berlin.

The Usedom Music Festival

The Usedom Music Festival takes place from 19.09. - 10.10.2020, the host country this year is Norway, which is part of the Baltic Sea region due to its cultural orientation. The festival comes up with a whole range of unusual venues and events:

Jan Bjøranger, for example, is one of the masters on the fiddle, the central instrument of Norwegian folk music, which the musician wants to bring closer to his listeners. There is one Lecture to the Nordland journeys of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II. The Nordic String Quartet, which since his Foundation 2013 zwei Women and two men from Denmark, Sweden and the Faroe Islands united, offers pieces by Norwegian composers Carl Nielsen, Edvard Grieg and Nancy Dalberg close.

And of course, in the Beethoven year on the 250th birthday of the master, this one should not be missing either: Malte Boecker, director of the Bonn Beethoven House, and Albrecht Selge, author of the recently published novel “Beethovn” talk to Jan Brachmann, the Dramaturge of the Usedom Music Festival about how such a well-known figure can still touch us. In addition, music is played that shows us the composer from lesser-known sides as well: tender, humorous, dreamy.

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