Thierry Escaich © S. Bianchi / Accord Universal
Thierry Escaich
Lang: Metropolis
Saturday
14
January
2023
19:30 – ca. 22:00
Großer Saal
Performers
Thierry Escaich, Orgel
Programme
Film »Metropolis« (Regie: Fritz Lang, D 1927) (Restaurierte Fassung von 2010)
Thierry Escaich
Improvisationen zu »Metropolis« (Regie: Fritz Lang, D 1927)
Note
Medienpartner Ray
Subscription series
Film + Musik live
Links
http://www.escaich.org
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
An orchestra called organ
Metropolis is the city of the future. While the working class of the »lower city« ekes out an existence as slaves, the upper class - surrounded by skyscrapers and machines - lives in luxury. When it comes to revolt, a human-like robot plays a leading role. Fritz Lang's groundbreaking film from 1927 is science fiction par excellence and has been a UNESCO World Documentary Heritage Site since 2001. In January, »Metropolis« inspires Thierry Escaich to create futuristic music. A lover of cinema, the French composer and organist regularly improvises to silent films such as »The Phantom of the Opera«, with which he made a guest appearance at Vienna's Konzerthaus in 2020. »The organ is a whole orchestra. I hear violins, flutes, horns, the different mixtures and combinations«, says the titular organist of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont. When Escaich sits down at the great Rieger organ in the Vienna Konzerthaus for Lang's masterpiece, we can look forward to this same richness of sound!