Between Heaven and Earth

DI COSA SI TRATTA

Abbiamo ancora bisogno di Schubert oggi?
Filippo Faes spiega perché

Between Heaven and Earth sono due CD e un booklet. In quest’ultimo, il lettore leggerà perché questo lavoro è diverso dagli altri e che cosa offre il CD extra: un viaggio attraverso il suono in cui Filippo Faes approccia gli ascoltatori in modo molto più diretto di quanto si sarebbe fatto con parole scritte.

Il suono della sua voce, gli esempi, citazioni e riflessioni creano l’impressione di un concerto dal vivo con un discorso pre-concerto: connessioni fra il tempo del compositore e il nostro ci danno la possibilità di comprendere meglio il presente e la musica che si sta ascoltando.

Dopo questa pubblicazione, Faes ha sviluppato l’idea di proporla dal vivo nella forma di una conversazione concerto. Questo grande progetto si chiama Only Connect.

” Un progetto speciale che può creare un precedente “

 

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” Faes illumina le connessioni nascoste fra la musica e la vita “

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Intervista di Tilmann Böttcher

Are you hoping for a closer bond with the listener?
“What my booklet is about is precisely this bond between the listener, the music and me as the performer. Of course, Schubert’s sonatas are such powerful music that those who listen to the CD will hopefully feel a spontaneous emotional affinity to these works so that they enjoy the listening experience. But I think it would be a shame if that were all: awareness of the many relationships that exist between Schubert and, for example, Beethoven, between their own era and our times, can make the experience of listening infinitely richer.”
Is that than your starting point for your audio booklet: to delve into the era when the composer lied?
“That kind of journey through time is one starting point. Regardless of whether I try to draw parallels between Beethoven and Schubert or compare the time of the French Revolution and the Restoration under Metternich with the era of student uprisings or the Reagan presidency: all these notes open up areas for human, musical and historical reflection and contemplation. You can pursue one or the other, each one opens a small window onto the works. One listener might peer through one small window, another listener through a second window or even through several.”
What happens when people are confronted with these small windows, with these connections?
” I hope that this format will allow people to experience the music with more immediacy. In any case, there is no easy listening where people themselves would not be involved at all. But the more you combine what you hear with your own knowledge, feelings and experiences, the more you are in touch with yourself within this whole process. And that awareness of oneself is a hugely important factor in listening to music. What, then, is culture? To me, it is the ability to recognize yourself in a work of art.

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Filippo Faes