...in tempi di guerra

The Mediterranean is - especially now - a region of conflict in which beauty and horror, poetry and sadness, humor and tragedy live side by side. The title of an engraving by Francisco Goya, which served as inspiration for Enrique Granados (himself a victim of the sea), sums this up: "el amor y la muerte". Maurice Ravel's "Gaspard de la nuit", one of the vir- tuoso highlights of piano literature, demonstrates this particularly impressively: the suggestive Undine is followed by "le gibet", the gallows, and the bizarre goblin Scarbo. The actor Morad Badrah, who came to Switzerland as a refugee from Syria and shares his emigration experience with the Jewish composer Erich Itor Kahn, reads poems by Adunis, the most important contemporary Syrian poet.

Date and time
June 28, 2025, 19:30

Address
Zurich, Masonic Lodge "Modestia cum libertate", Lindenhof

Organizer
Summer of music on Lake Zurich

Works
Erich Itor Kahn (1905-1956): "Ciaccona in tempi di guerra", Enrique Granados (1867-1916): "Goyescas", Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): "Gaspard de la nuit". Poems and texts by Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Adunis), Aloysius Bertrand and Morad Badrah

Soloists
Kirill Zvegintsov (piano), Morad Badrah (reading)

Admission price
50 CHF

Website
https://musiksommer.ch