Meernacht

Sven: "This melody needs the vocals to sound. It starts with the same interval four times, but words give them a different color every time. Without them, it merely remains a repetition. Will that work? We have to try to find some colors in the piano that could replace the vocals. Also, I need Clemens’ help again for a beautiful arpeggio at the beginning and end, where the choir would imitate the waves of the sea. The piece is about the moment we all know when we get a shiver while watching the sea: Beautiful from the beach, but of enormous dark power out there. Clemens: "I immediately have a picture for this music in my mind: In December I will travel to Kołobrzeg in Poland like I do every winter. I will be on the coast as often as possible. This moment is calm and full of dark beauty. You notice that the wind can turn very fast. It’s an unpredictable situation."

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Sven Helbig

Sven Helbig is one of the new composer generation for whom there are no longer any barriers between the classical world of the orchestra, experimental art and pop music. He composes choral, orchestral and chamber music for the classical concert stage and tours solo performing electronic music. Sven Helbig is Composer in Residence at the German National Theatre in Weimar, at the University of Leipzig and the National University San Martin in Buenos Aires.

His debut "Pocket Symphonies" was released on the traditional Deutsche Grammophon label followed by his choral work "I Eat the Sun and Drink the Rain" on the Neue Meister label. Sven Helbig is a co-founder of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, the first European orchestra devoted solely to the performance of contemporary music. Sven looks back on may years of creative collaboration with the Fauré Quartet, the opera singer René Pape, the conductor Kristjan Järvi, the Pet Shop Boys and the cult rock band Rammstein.