un-er-hört Sonderkonzert: Zwischenwelten

Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, 6:00 p.m. – Small Golden Hall (Special Concert)

Advance ticket sales begin in mid-July 2026

Franz Schreker
Intermezzo and Scherzo for String Orchestra
Ödön Pártos
Rondo on a Sephardic Theme
Mátyás Seiber
Sinfonietta
Notturno for Horn and String Orchestra
Mieczysław Weinberg
Concertino for Cello and String Orchestra
Op. 43 “bis”

Jens Peter Maintz, cello
Philipp Römer, horn
Gabriel Adorján, concertmaster and conductor

Germany in the early 1930s: Franz Schreker is considered one of the most important opera composers of his time; Mátyás Seiber leads the world’s first jazz class in Frankfurt am Main; Ödön Pártos is established in Berlin as a soloist and quartet musician. With the National Socialists’ rise to power, the three Jewish musicians were abruptly deprived of their livelihoods and barred from practicing their professions. Schreker died of a heart attack in 1934; the younger Seiber and Pártos emigrated in different directions and built a new musical home for themselves under adverse circumstances. Mieczysław Weinberg’s fate was also profoundly influenced by the political situation; in 1939, he was forced to flee from Warsaw via Minsk to Tashkent to escape the advancing Wehrmacht.
It is a great gift to posterity that these four musical voices have not fallen silent and that we can enrich today’s concert canon with their works.