In the organizer's words:

Sophisticated concert programs are the result of complex considerations that should take a back seat to the musical experience at the moment of performance. The same applies to the individual compositions of such a program, which hopefully presents itself to the ear as a finished product. The program booklet tries to anticipate and answer the questions posed by the audience as well as possible.

What hardly plays a role in this tried and tested model are your questions from the moment of listening, your reaction to the music and also your wishes. Creating a suitable framework for this is the idea behind BetriebsWerkSchau, our new concert series in the rehearsal room. For each edition, a composer is invited to present their own chamber music work. Sung and played by the members of our ensembles and moderated by J.Marc Reichow or Ekkehard Windrich, we explore together with you what lies behind the work.

We will delve as deeply as you like: Repeat a single passage or an entire section? Explain the meaning behind certain playing or singing techniques? Express incomprehension or criticism? Go ahead, we are the KlangForum and we take our name seriously. This is about personal contact between performers and audience and, en passant, we would also like to show you what the lion's share of our work consists of and where it takes place: not on stage, but here in the rehearsal room. It offers adequate production conditions and costs rent accordingly, but admission to the BetriebsWerkSchau is free and the atmosphere is as attentive as it is informal.

As an opening ritual, each concert is preceded by a Gregorian chant - a great, lively repertoire to be (re)discovered, just like contemporary music.