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Siemens Arts Program production wins OPUS KLASSIK for Best Concert
Recording
Award for
outstanding interpretive recording of Piano Concerto Opus 25 by Viktor Ullmann
(1898–1944)
Accolades
for soloist Annika Treutler, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor
Stephan Frucht
The
project aims to keep alive the memory of Viktor Ullmann in the name of the many
artists expelled and murdered under the Nazi regime
It also
features a groundbreaking digital, multi-perspective VR media installation with
immersive sound engineering as the narrative to Ullmann’s piano concerto
The Siemens Arts
Program has launched an audiovisual art project in partnership with pianist
Annika Treutler and media artist Alexander Stublić. The project is based on
Piano Concerto Opus 25 by the composer Viktor Ullmann, who was murdered at
Auschwitz in 1944. The art project features an elaborate new 3D audio recording
of the concerto alongside a virtual reality media art installation. The music
was recorded at the RBB concert studio in Berlin in partnership with the
Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio network and performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Stephan Frucht (Artistic Director of the Siemens Arts
Program).
Award for
outstanding interpretive recording of Piano Concerto Opus 25 by Viktor Ullmann
(1898–1944)
Accolades
for soloist Annika Treutler, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor
Stephan Frucht
The
project aims to keep alive the memory of Viktor Ullmann in the name of the many
artists expelled and murdered under the Nazi regime
It also
features a groundbreaking digital, multi-perspective VR media installation with
immersive sound engineering as the narrative to Ullmann’s piano concerto
The Siemens Arts
Program has launched an audiovisual art project in partnership with pianist
Annika Treutler and media artist Alexander Stublić. The project is based on
Piano Concerto Opus 25 by the composer Viktor Ullmann, who was murdered at
Auschwitz in 1944. The art project features an elaborate new 3D audio recording
of the concerto alongside a virtual reality media art installation. The music
was recorded at the RBB concert studio in Berlin in partnership with the
Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio network and performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Stephan Frucht (Artistic Director of the Siemens Arts
Program).
In the media art installation, artist Alexander
Stublić brings together genre-transcending audio and video recordings made
during the 3D musical production to create dreamlike scenes, some with motifs
from places where Viktor Ullmann worked and composed.
The audiovisual art
project uses cutting-edge technology in a sophisticated production that blazes
a new trail in music reproduction. Through the visual, three-dimensional
experience of the recording and the scope offered by 21st century technologies,
the Siemens Arts Program hopes to bring Ullmann’s music and the story of his
cruel fate to a wider audience, including to a younger generation. On October
18, 2020, the anniversary of Viktor Ullmann’s death, the production was awarded
the OPUS KLASSIK for its outstanding artistic quality.
Stephan Frucht says: “We’re
so delighted that this project was nominated in several OPUS KLASSIK categories
and that we won Best Concert Recording. It would never have been possible
without a team effort. Everyone who put so much passion and innovation into the
project shares this accolade, as well as the great Viktor Ullmann of course,
whose work I hope to showcase on concert stages throughout the world. He has
earned it.”
Annika Treutler adds: “I’m
over the moon about the OPUS KLASSIK award – above all because it honors Viktor
Ullmann’s music. It brings us a step closer to achieving the goal of my
#respondinmusic project: to relate history through music by giving a new voice
to the composers of the time. Exploring our role as musicians has never been
more important than it is today. I’m grateful to the Siemens Arts Program for
making it possible to take music to a new level through this recording and the
art installation based on the piano concerto.”
The OPUS KLASSIK is Germany’s most prestigious classical music
award. This new, independent prize is organized by Verein zur Förderung
der Klassischen Musik e. V., which aims to promote classical music and
especially to recognize the artists who perform it. An expert jury representing
the music and media industries selects 47 winners in 25 categories. The
OPUS KLASSIK 2020 awards ceremony takes place on October 18, 2020 at the
Konzerthaus Berlin and will be broadcast by ZDF at 10.15 p.m.
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