Literature and music: Eva Menasse reads Eva Menasse
Literature and music: Eva Menasse reads Eva Menasse
Isaac Duarte Oboe
Kaspar Zimmermann Oboe
Matthias Rácz Fagott
Peter Kosak Kontrabass
Azul Lima Laute
Ulrike-Verena Habel Cembalo
Eva Menasse Auftragswerk
The multi-award-winning Austrian Eva Menasse is one of the most important writers in the German-speaking world. As a public intellectual, she repeatedly speaks out in an astute and witty manner. On the occasion of a "carte blanche" organised by the Literaturhaus Zürich and the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich, Menasse reflects on what music and language have in common: don't they both have rhythm, motifs, repetitions, major and minor keys, beat? Don't both lead to urgency and recognition? What space does the unexpected occupy? Is there a hidden level behind the words, behind the notes? And how long do you have to "practise" before you finally get a sentence right? She is accompanied by the expressive, highly emotional music of the Bohemian baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745). What both have in common is their sensuality of sound and lively agility.