Enigma

A mystery surrounds every work of art. Between magical inspiration, inexplicable circumstances and historical mysteries hides the incomprehensible, the eternally fascinating.
César Cui is the passionate ambassador of the "Mighty Bunch" that pursues the development of a Russian national style in the 19th century. At the same time, Cui himself writes music that is strongly based on Western traditions and has hardly any folk music influences. The balancing act between theory and practice in the Cui universe, which he seems to perform again and again with virtuosity as a sharp-tongued music critic, remains puzzling.
Florence Price published "Adoration" in 1951 in "The Organ Portfolio", a sheet music magazine that presented a collection of organ pieces every two months. Beyond that, the play remains mysterious. There is no information on the time of origin, intended use, title and performances. The piece touches with simplicity and emotionality: a purified late Romantic hymn.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote four horn concertos, all during his time in Vienna between 1781 and 1791. They appear as a mysterious unit in his oeuvre: it is still unclear why Mozart did not enter the concertos in his own catalogue raisonné dated in full. The dating in the Köchel directory has also proven to be wrong in retrospect.
With Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande, Jean Sibelius has set one of the most enigmatic works of world literature to music. The simple and mysterious plot of the original is captured in atmospheric miniatures. Nothing is explained, everything remains in limbo.
Enigma eterna.


Christian Loferer (Horn)
Born in 1981 and raised in Schleching/Chiemgau, Christian Loferer began playing the horn with Wolfgang Diem at the age of nine and gained his first orchestral experience in the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra. After studying with Johannes Ritzkowsy and Wolfgang Gaag and being accepted into the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the talent factory for European orchestral musicians under the direction of Claudio Abbado, he was appointed to the Bavarian State Orchestra at the Bavarian State Opera during his music studies. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has won several prizes at national and international competitions. With the wind quintet PentAnemos, he was included in the "National Selection of Young Artists' Concerts" in 2011/2012. Since then, he has performed with the ensemble worldwide, most recently in Central America, Ukraine and Bolivia. In the summer of 2016, an engagement took him to the USA, to the Washington National Opera, to participate in 3 RING cycles. Temporary work has taken him to the leading German orchestras, as well as the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. In 2010 he expanded his musical spectrum and has since been a guest in bands such as the singer-songwriter Gudrun Mittermeier, the Bananafishbones, the Federnelken, DJANGO 3000 or Konstantin Wecker. From 2007 - 2012 Loferer had a lectureship in horn at the Institute for Music Education at the LMU Munich.