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A sudden new listening experience 59 min. portrait & feature film (DigiBeta PAL stereo) - a RBB production ca. 90 min. live recording of the "Kunst der Fuge" (BWV 1080) Manuscript of the feature-film A conversation with Folkert Uhde Jochen, Sandig und Frank Schneider (in the Konzerthaus Berlin) A conversation with Peter Mussbach (in the senate-room of Humboldt University STEPHAN MAI :Uhm. It is a social game. Actually we now get to what this compositoin is all about, it really is a democracy made in heaven. Something people dream about: everybody can always think and say out loud, or softly, what he wants without, negativly, having to be concerned about the others and in a positive way it's always present and never bothers anybody. XENIA LÖFFLER: People are never hurtful and never say anything that is wrong. STEPHAN MAI: No, it doesn't work. RAPHAEL ALPERMANN: One gets used. XENIA LÖFFLER: One gets used. STEPHAN MAI: One gets used. And even during the interval one gets used. What Stephan Mai describes here - our film will start with his words - is not just his view of the Kunst der Fuge by Johann Sebastian Bach - but also - this was our impression - the somewhat utopian state which makes the "Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin" so unique. Everybody has a say and gets heard, knows his place. A democracy on earth made in heaven - only allowing, if at all, few leaders among its equals - this would be a dream scenario for human kind - though it is not obvious by playing baroque literature to let this social behaviour become reality. Because, as Stephan Mai says, democracy was alien during the Baroque era. May be it is, among others, this contradiction that fires up the energy of the ensemble. Our film describes a success story that started in 1982 with concerts in Schloss Köpenick and, with performances in Carnegie Hall, has, by no means, come to an end yet. Die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, "Akamus" in short, is internationally admired as a top ensemble for 'Acient Music'. Not only the close co-operation with René Jacobs and Sasha Waltz plus their new home inside the Radialsystem V Berlin will ensure the ensemble not just to be noticed by the professionals. (aficionados) In the film we hear the founding musicians talk about the moving history of their "Akademie" in the GDR and we give an insight into their present busy life. We see who leads this leaderless emsemble in this 'democratic' way, not making it easier to work together but making it very exciting. From the material we shot we made two films: the first one is a 1 hour TV documentary or feature film showing interviews, live performances from 1984 onwards till today and we also used material from the private archive of the ensemble - a real portrait of the ensemble. The other film is a 90-minutes live recording of the "Kunst der Fuge" by Johann Sebastian Bach. A concert given on 28.11.2007 in the 'Radialsystem V Berlin' (the final rehearsal & the concert) – with 20 string and 4 wind instruments as well as an organ/cembalo. Harmonia Mundi France will shortly release this film on DVD and it will also be for sale in the inpetto shop. Team: musical concept & konzertmeister stage & light design musicians violin viola cello double bass oboe basson trombone corno da caccia harpsicord & organ director & editing camera sound engineer & mixing camera assistents equipment technical director lightning director graphics musicological advice translations direction assistent production director production assistent editorial office a coproduction of in cooperation with © 2008 |