WE SERVE: LIONS-CLUB ULM/NEU-ULM – ALB-DONAU

Concerts with Alexander Krichel in Ulm promote the Ulm hospice work.

Lions-Club Ulm/Neu-Ulm – Alb-Donau dedicated organizes the concerts and finds engaged sponsors: They bear the costs and thus enable the ticket proceeds to benefit the charity without any deductions. We would like to extend our thanks to them and – of course – also to you, our faithful audience!

Alexander Krichel about the 3rd Concert

My Aim

I want to tell stories through my music. I want to tell music in such a way that you, as my audience, feel the message that is connected to you. The good thing about music is that all people can feel it in within their body, regardless of the opinions and statements of others. It liberates imposed barriers and leads to “thinking with the heart.” In this way, it brings deep enjoyment – and beyond that, it can initiate cognitive processes that extend into everyday life, how to interact with other people and many topics. I find that fascinating.

One possible hurdle is that, only an intensive engagement with the pieces produces important vocabulary that makes it easier to understand and feel. Here I want to help:

The Appassionata

The Appassionata was my first Beethoven Sonata: an incomparable composition of three intense movements. At the beginning spirited, wild and romantic, its spell binds us spontaneously! In the second movement it leads through a light and peaceful landscape, musically gentle, almost like a chorale. The furious Allegro ma non troppo follows virtually without transition: Inner tension builds up, almost impossible to control, like boiling water in a kettle. Again and again, the lid wants to lift off, and does in the massive finale!

Pictures of an exhibition

Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures of an Exhibition” combine extremes, with a journey into the innermost soul. A gallery awaits us: we see ten paintings – among them a clever gnome and the sadness of an old castle ruin, children playing and chicks dancing in their shells, but also the cheerful chaos of the Limoges market square, the fear of the cannibal witch Baba Yaga and at the end the radiant arrival at the Golden Gate. The connecting promenade as a recurring musical motif leaves room for reflection. 

Your Alexander Krichel

Benefit concerts in favor of the reflection garden at the Ulm Hospice