Dear friends of the Munich Chamber Orchestra,
Dear audience,

These past days have made us acutely aware of our powerlessness: it is impossible to express in gesture, word or music the suffering of those trapped by the war in the Ukraine, started as a criminal act of aggression by the Russian president.

As an orchestra that regularly performs works which were created in times of political aggression and repression – Hartmann’s “Concerto funebre“ and 4th Symphony, Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony or the Divertimento by Bartok – we feel that we must give voice to our outrage, our protest, our grief and our solidarity with those afflicted.

In our upcoming concerts, we will play string pieces by Valentin Silvestrov, a composer who lives in Kyiv and has a long standing relationship to the Munich Chamber Orchestra. The work is “Stille Musik”, which transports us with a gentle breeze from afar, a quiet plea for peace and a fundamental Song of Protest against the raging noise of war.

Your Munich Chamber Orchestra