From July 28 to August 1, 2025, rehearsals, performances, lecture-recitals, and a workshop on Différences by Luciano Berio will take place with Angela Ida De Benedictis, Ulrich Mosch, Kilian Schwoon, and participants of the Darmstadt Summer Courses.

As part of the Darmstadt Summer Course 2025, the focus will be on Luciano Berio’s Différences (1958-59) for five instruments (flute, clarinet, harp, viola, cello) and stereophonic tape, which was performed in Darmstadt in 1961 by the International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble under Bruno Maderna’s direction. As part of a recital lecture (on July 31) with Angela Ida De Benedictis (Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel | Centro Studi Luciano Berio) on the work and the aspect of “tape playback”, Différences will be performed twice. The ensemble will be made up of performers registered for the Darmstadt Summer Course. The musical Direction is by Lena Yeeun Oh and Konstantinos Vallios, and the sound projection by Kilian Schwoon.

In their workshop (July 28 and August 1st), Angela Ida De Benedictis (Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel | Centro Studi Luciano Berio), Ulrich Mosch (Université de Genève) and Kilian Schwoon (Hochschule für Künste Bremen | Tempo Reale Florence) will provide an insight into the existing sources of Différences for five instruments (flute, clarinet, harp, viola, violoncello) and stereophonic tape, thus tracing the conditions under which a fascinating chapter of European music history came into being.

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