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Schiller's Piano by Laurence Osborn
Performed by Zubin Kanga and Manchester Collective

Performers:
Zubin Kanga – Piano, keyboard, live electronics
Aaron Holloway-Nahum – Conductor
Rakhi Singh – Director, violin

Martyn Jackson – Violin
Martha-Maria Mitu – Violin
Ellie Consta – Violin
Roman Lytwyniw – Violin
Marie Schreer – Violin
Lily Whitehurst – Violin
Rosemary Attree – Violin
Dylan Edge – Violin
Alex Mitchell – Viola
Carol Ella – Viola
Alistair Vennart – Viola
Christian Elliott – Cello
Hannah Roberts – Cello
Peggy Nolan – Cello
Alice Durrant – Double bass
Diane Clark – Double bass

Schiller's Piano was co-commissioned by Zubin Kanga and Manchester Collective. Zubin Kanga's co-commission was supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Audio Recording by Jack Jordan
Videography by Broaden Films

Programme Note by Laurence Osborn:

In 1942, Schiller’s furniture — a desk, chairs, cupboard, and piano — were transported from his house in Weimar to the nearby Buchenwald concentration camp. In the workshop at Buchenwald, the prisoners were forced to make replicas of Schiller’s furniture. These would be displayed in Schiller’s house, while the real artefacts were stored underground. The aim was to safeguard Schiller’s furniture from Allied bombing while continuing to present the replicas as totems to Germany’s history.

The prisoners were forced only to re-create the outer shell of the piano. The version of Schiller’s piano at Buchenwald is a counterfeit that makes no music. Its interior is a void.

In Schiller’s Piano, the performer plays piano and sampler together. The sampler uses sounds taken from the raw elements of piano construction: the manipulation of wood, brass, felt and wire. Schiller’s counterfeit piano materialises in many states of being, real and imagined, untouched and destroyed.

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