»Der Zauberlehrling«

In the organizer's words:

On Water Orchestra | Simon Rummel: Rummel

Christian Friedrich Daniel called it "this deeply moving melancholy instrument". Alexander Pushkin thought he could hear "something supernatural in its enchanting tones".

The glass harmonica was a fashionable instrument in the 18th and early 19th centuries. However, its sophisticated mechanics were based on a much older and simpler idea: moistened fingers are made to circle on the rim of a wine glass. For today's composers, this playing technique is more attractive because any number of microtonal gradations can be achieved by "tuning" the glasses with water. In "DER ZAUBERLEHRLING", the focus is on an 88-piece glass game. The other instruments, explains the Cologne improvisation musician and composer Simon Rummel, color the sound with long notes. This creates a microtonal band of sound to which the vibrato of the glasses lends a rich inner life. - Again and again, one believes to hear a distant echo of 19th century orchestral sounds ...

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW and the Fonds idealistische Kunst

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