23rd International Summer Serenades and Twelfth Piano Night

Dear friends of music and poetry, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the 23rd edition of the International Summer Serenades in Sindelfingen, founded in 2003 by Christoph Ewers and Dieter E. Hülle! The four summer concerts held in the Odeon of the Sindelfingen Music School have long become a fixture in the regional cultural calendar, inspiring a growing number of similar events across the area. Small wonder - music is an art form whose works consist of organised sound events designed to evoke aesthetic or emotional responses. It is often called the universal language of humanity, and lyrical texts pair with it beautifully: rich in rhetorical devices, rhythmically structured, sometimes rhymed, and frequently intertwined with melody. This reflects their ancient roots - in classical Greece, the recitation of poetry was typically accompanied by the lyre.

This year's series opens on 23 August with pianist Letizia Michielon performing works by Mozart and Schumann. The spoken-word element is provided by Sabine Duffner of the TheaterEnsemble Sindelfingen.

The second concert evening features pianists Martina Giordani and Ilaria Costantino from Monza, Italy, presenting works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Darius Milhaud alongside pieces by composers Cécile Chaminade and Germaine Tailleferre. Karl Göbel, an actor with several regional theatre ensembles, will handle the recitation.

Christoph Ewers himself takes the piano in the third concert. The programme focuses on works by Fanny Hensel and her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, rounded out with pieces by Frédéric Chopin. Sabine Duffner returns to the lectern.

The traditional Piano Night closes the 23rd International Summer Serenades in Sindelfingen on Sunday, 13 September. The piano duo Yeult Jost and Domingos Costa perform four-hand works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat plays...