Munich Philharmonic: “Playfield Classic” in the Muffatwerk – Munich

Nomen est omen: “Ampere” is the name of the small club next to the Muffathalle, and the way Christian Prommer and Johannes Brecht electronically overwrote the capriccio from Bartók’s second quartet was so loud and electrically charged that you could hear the huge likenesses of the fascinated by the musicians on the wall (video: Maotik), but after less than half a minute, violent stitches in the heart forced them to flee on this “Spielfeld Klassik” excursion to the Muffatwerk: next door, members of the Munich Philharmonic (Bernhard Metz, Clémnet Courtin, Burkhard Siegl and Manuel von der Nahmer) played live. Then you stayed with the first two movements of the quartet by Claude Debussy, while your heart could hardly calm down.

Next door in the small studio, the melody of the slow movement was still perceptible despite the alienation (Gunnar Geisse), while the musicians in all sorts of forms flickered somewhat redundantly over plastic tarpaulins (video: Manuela Hartel, Thomas Mahnecke). During the finale, on the way back to the hall via the toilet (“TransPass” was the name of the whole thing), you were pleasantly exposed to the sound outside, which would have been the most exciting alternative given the warmer temperatures and café business.

As at the beginning of the first movement from Edvard Grieg’s quartet, everyone gathered in the hall again, and with “Thunder” (2019) by Gunter Pretzel (concept and idea) there was once more in the swirling stage fog with hanging neon tubes and wandering bright cones of light optical and acoustic overkill announced.

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