Ingo Metzmacher conducts Hans Werner Henze’s Requiem

Few modern composers had a more meaningful relationship with both past and (very real) present than Hans Werner Henze – or a more acute ear for beauty. His Requiem of 1993 is simultaneously typical and utterly original: nine wordless concertos for trumpet, piano and a shimmering chamber orchestra, each charged (in Henze’s own words) “with the human fears and problems of our time, with illness and death, love and loneliness”. This film captures the world premiere performance in Frankfurt in February 1993, with Ueli Wiget on piano and the incomparable Håkan Hardenberger on trumpet – a landmark in postwar musical history.

Soloists: 

Håkan Hardenberger (Trumpet), Ueli Wiget (Piano)

Ensemble: 

Ensemble Modern

Conductor: 

Ingo Metzmacher