TACHELES – JEWISH TUNES BY THE LEIPZIG ROMANTICS
What do Jewish influences in music sound like? To mark the themed year ‘Tacheles – Jewish Culture in Saxony’, CON SPIRITO will be exploring the ‘Jewish Tunes’ of the Leipzig Romantics from 12 to 20 September 2026. The programme will highlight the friendships between the Schumanns and the Mendelssohns, as well as those with Joseph Joachim, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Heinrich Heine, Ferdinand Hiller and Ferdinand David. Richard Wagner also takes centre stage with his youthful admiration for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Giacomo Meyerbeer, which later turned into the exact opposite. Look forward to the 6th festival season at Leipzig’s European Heritage Sites – this is where music comes alive!
Programme:
Sergei Prokofiev
Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34
Alexander Weprik
Three Folk Dances, Op. 13b, for piano trio
Mieczysław Weinberg
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 28
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67
Tobias Feldmann, Sergey Ostrovsky, Angela Chan, Jona Schibilsky | Violin
Pauline Sachse | Viola
Peter Bruns, Yibai Chen | Cello
Thorsten Johanns | Clarinet
Oliver Triendl, Annegret Kuttner | Piano
Venue: Grieg-Begegnungsstätte
Tickets: 30/20 EUR plus booking fee
and at all ticket shops
Concessions: students, children, Leipzig-Pass holders, people with severe disabilities
Further information: www.conspiritoleipzig.de