Portrait Concert David Geringas

Wash your worries away

»The night absorbs many of our cares« – thus a Lithuanian proverb. Was the cellist and conductor David Geringas, himself a native of Vilnius, thinking of this saying when he compiled his programme for the chamber music festival in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall? Franz Schubert’s »Arpeggione« derives its unique status from the fact that it was originally written for an instrument now almost completely forgotten, a mixture of guitar and cello. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony represents mourning, reappraisal and a musical memorial to the horrors of the Second World War – an anti-fascist requiem.

Please note the new start time – the concert has been rescheduled to start at 19:00 instead of 20:00.