Munich: Memorial concert for the cellist Sebastian Hess – Munich

Sebastian Hess died completely unexpectedly of an aneurysm a year ago. One was disturbed, he was still so young, born in Munich in 1971, and his head was much younger, full of ideas. He wanted to discuss one of them, we had an appointment for the next few days. He left unfinished, would never have been finished because there would have been no conclusion in the active work of this fantastic cellist.

Back then, a year ago he was commemorated in this newspaper, now friends and companions paid tribute to him, a large group of exceptional artists. Sarah Wedl-Wilson, Martina Veh and Moritz Eggert devised this evening in the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, they called and everyone came, the many musicians who had made music with Sebastian Hess. It’s like a new world is emerging, a time when Munich and its culture were so exciting. One thinks of Festspiel+, the supporting program of the opera festival under Sir Peter Jonas, which Cornel Franz devised, who sends a reminder text in which he also recalls great deeds, completely grandiose crazy opera evenings, Hess and Andi Ammer in the foreground, the Bairishe Geisha and the Finnish choir of the screaming men, the performance of the Sechzger Stadium. Hess was always there, it could never be too crazy for him. And there was always his insane friendliness, his openness to people. It also made him feel spontaneously that the audience of the completely overcrowded festival night shouldn’t just be sent home like that. So he sat down and played Bach’s solo suites.

You can hear him again in the academy, recordings. Together with the enchanting lutist Axel Wolf with baroque music that he rediscovered himself. You can hear him with the rhapsody by Mikis Theodorakis. He died a day after him, now his music floats wonderfully through the room again. The evening is an enchantingly warm commemoration, Christopher Robson sings Purcell, “Hallelujah”, a painful cheer for the most curious, sensual, most glorious cellist Sebastian Hess.

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