With his concerto for two pianos and orchestra, Plurimo, Claudio Ambrosini draws on one of the most important cycles by the painter Emilio Vedova.
In the 1960s, Vedova opened up painting into space with his Plurimi, movable picture panels created in Berlin. With the dynamic, changeable, and expressive Plurimi, Vedova experimented with spatially conceived painting and at the same time addressed the political and social tensions he encountered in Berlin.
In the opening concert of the Ultraschall Festival at Berlin's Haus des Rundfunks, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo will now perform Claudio Ambrosini's composition, which won a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2007. The programme also includes works by Talib Rasul Hakim and Zeynep Gedizlioğlu, as well as the world premiere of a work by Hermann Keller that was believed to be lost and was rediscovered in the archives of the Komische Oper Berlin.
The concert will be broadcast live on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and streamed online, and can be heard on radio3 from rbb on March 6, 2026, at 8:03 p.m.
Together with violinist Ilya Gringolts and soprano Anja Petersen, the duo will also perform Hans Werner Henze's Ariosi, based on poems by Torquato Tasso, at Radialsystem on January 16 as part of Ultraschall.
