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Stuttgart State Orchestra Combines Mendelssohn's Symphonies with Miroslav Srnka's Eighteen Agents for 19 strings

May. 29, 2025

On May 25-26, the audience at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart witnessed a special musical combination. The Stuttgart State Orchestra, conducted by Cornelius Meister, accompanied two favorites of classical music – Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 “Italian” and Symphony No. 5 “Reformation Symphony” – with Miroslav Srnka's Eighteen Agents for 19 strings. 

Srnka's work for string instruments explores the deep dimension of sound. The compositional principle resembles multiple projections into different levels of perception. The music is dynamized via an abstract network of movement in various filters, as if the sound were perceived by the observer in spatial movement: coming, going, approaching, moving away. Or, if thought about the other way around: here an acoustic event is set in motion, as if a film excerpt were accelerated, slowed down, played forwards, backwards, frozen.

Listen to Srnka's Engrams for String Quartet (2011):

Engrams for String Quartet/Miroslav Srnka/Quatuor Diotima

To learn more about Miroslav Srnka, visit: baerenreiter.com.

Miroslav Srnka
Eighteen Agents for 19 strings (2012)
str(11, 4, 3, 1)
15'

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