“About Brahms – Don’t ask so stupid”
Concert for Violin, Cello, Piano & Reading
Two actors reading a dialogue between Johannes Brahms and his housekeeper Mrs. Truxa.
When a devoted person asks the maestro: “Do you always ponder a long time before you compose?”, he responds: “Dearest, do you always think that long before you ask questions?” Equally grumpy he polishes off a whole party: “And if I should have forgotten to affront someone, then I ask for forgiveness!” But where does the bright strength in his music come from, the sensitive depth?
We search and suddenly someone appears who can be asked: Mrs. Truxa, his housekeeper. She took care of him on a daily basis for fifteen years, experienced his feelings, joys and fears more intimately than anybody else.
And it is actually highly amusing when she starts telling stories about this life with Brahms. Here he lets a cigarette stub fall in the beginning, there a coin. Does she clean thoroughly or does she steal?Brahms and Mrs. Truxa talk in this dialogue about their life “together”, the countless experiences which connect them. Step by step one gets closer to the man Brahms. His music is already a unique wonder.
Key Data
Artist
Tetiana Lutsyk o.a., Violin
Friedrich Kleinhapl, Cello
Andreas Woyke, Piano
Heidrun Maya Hagn, Text
Changing reciters. Among others with Gerti Drassl and Michael Dangl
Duration: 90 Minutes
Program: Cello-Sonatas and Piano-Trios by Johannes Brahms combined with a dialogue between Johannes Brahms and his housekeeper Mrs. Truxa
Samples
Artists: Friedrich Kleinhapl, Cello
Andreas Woyke, Piano
Composer: Johannes Brahms