Am Siedepunkt

The "surely most respected violist in the world" (Star Tribune, USA) has recorded almost the entire literature for viola on CD. Tabea Zimmermann does not "conduct", she likes to lead concerts "as part of the orchestra, with the viola, from the middle".

Performers
Tabea Zimmermann . Viola & Conductor
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Program
Grażyna Bacewicz
Divertimento for string orchestra

Alfred Schnittke
Monologue for viola and string orchestra

Béla Bartók
Divertimento for strings

"I was lucky enough to get to know Alfred Schnittke as a deeply honest person and musician. This helps me to no longer ask questions about what is written there, but at most about how one exposes oneself to it as a player and listener and allows this to happen." (Tabea Zimmermann)

The "surely most respected violist in the world" (Star Tribune, USA) has recorded almost the entire literature for viola on CD. Tabea Zimmermann does not "conduct", she likes to lead concerts "as part of the orchestra, with the viola, from the middle". Her choice of program for the SKO is hand-picked. In retrospect, Schnittke's Monologue for viola and string orchestra becomes a key work that speaks of the rollercoaster of emotions after the borderline experience of a stroke and the return to life. The Divertimento by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz raises the temperature bar by bar and reflects the wit and speed of its creator. In Bartók's Divertimento from 1939, the outer movements vibrate with vitality. In contrast, the darkness of the middle movement is a kind of prophecy and, as a biographer once said, "perhaps the most beautiful solitary monologue of the 20th century."