Lecture Recitals


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

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Music by Arnold Schoenberg and others


"Lecture at home", Berlin, June 2020 (in english)

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Beethoven: Sonata op. 101


Short live-sequences from lectures on works of Schubert and Ives.

Video-Icon-5Franz Schubert: Sonata D 980


Video-Icon-5Charles Ives: Concord-Sonata (The Alcotts)

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

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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


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Photo: ZDF, Walter Wehner

A new series with readings and discussions with film actor, dramaturge, director, radio play speaker, photographer, translator and essayist 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