Everyone who has ever experienced Litwin on the stage knows that he is a brilliant speaker.
But that his lectures are as stirring as they are illuminating
is because nothing in them is learned ornamentation; all of it is argumentation.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Topics
BEETHOVEN: Div. Concerts and Sonatas
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concert No. 1
BERG: Sonata op. 1
BOULEZ: Douze Notations; Sonata No. 1
EISLER: Sonata No. 3 (1943);
Lieder and Cantatas
IVES: Sonata No. 2 »Concord, Mass.«
MOZART: Violin Sonatas KV 304, 377 and 402
NONO: Como una ola de fuerza y luz
NONO: ...sofferte onde serene...
RZEWSKI: 36 Var. on »The People United...«
SCHÖNBERG / STEUERMANN:
Kammersymphonie op. 9
SCHÖNBERG: Ode to Napoleon
SCHÖNBERG: Piano Concert op. 42
SCHUBERT: Sonata D 960
SCHUMANN: Sonata op. 11
Videos
"New Music / New Listening"
Lecture with special guest Nuria Schoenberg-Nono
Music by Arnold Schoenberg and others
"Lecture at home", Berlin, June 2020 (in english)
Beethoven: Sonata op. 101
Short live-sequences from lectures on works of Schubert and Ives.
Audio Clips
Excerpts from Lectures on Schumann (in English and German) and Beethoven. The complete recordings are available on CD.
Lecture (English): Schumann, Sonata op. 11, Excerpt ca. 8 min
Lecture (Deutsch): Schumann, Sonate op. 11, Ausschnitt ca. 8 min
Lecture (Deutsch): Beethoven, Klavierkonzert Nr. 1, Ausschnitt ca. 4 min
The lecture recitals can be held in German, English and Spanish.
Nuria Schoenberg Nono in Conversation with Stefan Litwin
• Arnold Schoenberg: Life Story in Encounters • Luigi Nono: Life and Work
Both discussion evenings with Nuria Schoenberg Nono trace the biography of these great composers. Stefan Litwin explains and performs various compositions. Original sound bites, as well as private photos, commented by Nuria Schoenberg Nono illustrate the events.
Literature and Music with Hanns Zischler
New Listening
A series of lectures in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.
More information at: online-lecture-recital-by-stefan-litwin