When there were no shellac records from the hand-operated gramophone and no cassette recorders, craftsmen and musicians invented instruments to make harmony in melody and rhythm audible and playable. The Chinese sheng was already presented at the Tango Festival in spring as the inspiration for the creation of the concertina and the bandoneon . The individual notes of the organ pipes derived from the reeds of harmonicas and organ instruments are perhaps the best known.
This choral principle of chords and singular tones is derived from the sounding strings of keyboard instruments, carillons and the Russian horns made in the Erzgebirge and still played today. Common to the principles of application is the need to experience and reproduce the fascination of sounding together as music - as an individual player and as or in an ensemble, depending on the type of instrument.
Carl Friedrich Uhlig as the inventor of the concertina and the Erzgebirge with its famous Musikwinkel, the traditional workshop of Gottfried Silbermann, the carillon of Meissen porcelain bear witness to Saxon ingenuity, which bears witness to the mining industry of the Erzgebirge, its inventive spirit and craftsmanship and the longing for harmony and beauty: everything comes from the mountains.
This concert is intended to evoke this connection. The same and the originally different will be discovered.
Instrumentation:
Gotha Handbell Choir
Matthias Eichhorn - conductor
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