Ensemble Resonanz / Alina Ibragimova

100 years later, Schönberg directly refers to Beethoven and the Marseillaise in his »Ode to Napoleon«. A poem of praise for Napoleon here becomes an acerbic commentary on world politics during the Second World War, a fiery speech to end all barbarism.

Finally, Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, faced with the upheavals of the 20th century, composed a highly virtuos violin concert that lets the hope for a better world shine as a »light in the distance«.