Concert-Calendar - Usedomer Musikfestival

Special concert

Saturday, 12/09

5 and 8 pm

Power station of the Peenemünde Museum

Peenemünde

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30 years of German Reunification

Baltic Sea Philharmonic
Kristjan Järvi (conductor)

With excerpts from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake as well as music by Jean Sibelius, Kristjan Järvi, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Carl Nielsen, Robot Koch, Sven Helbig, Henryk Górecki and Gediminas Gelgotas

The Baltic Sea Philharmonic under the baton of Kristjan Järvi is a symbol of the regained unity in the Baltic Sea region, which began with German reunification 30 years ago. The Usedom Music Festival founded the orchestra, which brings together musicians from all countries around the Baltic Sea. In the meantime, it has conquered half the world with innovative concert ideas, completely memorized programs and inspiring collaborations, and has performed all over Europe, including the United Arab Emirates. At the historic Peenemünde power station, listeners can let themselves be carried away by the Baltic Sea Philharmonic’s new concert show: the 2020 Jubilee Ludwig van Beethoven dances with Edvard Grieg from Norway and Peter Tchaikovsky from Russia, and the innovative power and enthusiasm of a new generation of musicians enlivens the historic site. This extraordinary production is also a festive outlook on the 27th season of the Usedom Music Festival.

There are bus and ferry connections to this concert.

95 / 75 / 55 / 40 / 30 / 20 €

Venue

since 2002

Historical-Technical Museum Peenemünde

From 1936 to 1945, Peenemünde was the largest military research centre in Europe. On an area of 25 km², up to 12,000 people worked simultaneously on new types of weapon systems, such as the world’s first cruise missile and the first functioning large rocket. Both were designed as weapons of terror against the civilian population, were largely manufactured by forced labourers and from 1944 onwards were used as “weapons of retaliation” during the Second World War.

The Historical-Technical Museum in Peenemünde reappraises the history of the origin and use of these weapons. The exhibitions document who worked in Peenemünde, how the people lived and why the enormously elaborate weapon projects were carried out.

The turbine hall, in which electricity was once generated for rocket production, has been available as an exhibition and event hall since 2002 thanks to funding from EU and state funds. Every year, the Usedom Music Festival holds its annual Peenemünde concerts here – a unique cooperation in the German museum and festival landscape.

Under the direction of Mstislaw Rostropowitsch and with over 250 participating musicians and soloists from Russia, Great Britain and Germany, the historic site was opened in 2002 as a concert hall for a few moments a year. Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” could be heard in the turbine hall of the former power station. Since then the Usedom Music Festival has been able to engage world-class conductors in Peenemünde. Kurt Masur, appointed Honorary Patron of the Usedom Music Festival in 2012, gave three of his last concerts and two international master classes for young conductors here. Krzysztof Penderecki (2003, 2014), Christoph von Dohnányi (2004), Esa-Pekka Salonen (2005), Alan Gilbert (2006), Andris Nelsons (2007), Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Järvi (2010, 2013), Kurt Masur † (2012 and 2013) and Neeme Järvi (2010, 2013), Paavo Järvi (2013) and Kristjan Järvi (2008, 2009, 2011-2019) and many more consolidated the high musical standard of the Peenemünde concerts.

In the power station – 17449 Peenemünde