Maximilian Hornung & Paul Rivinius

If you missed his debut at deSingel in 2012, you now have another chance to see Maximilian Hornung, Germany’s latest marvel on the cello. On that occasion he captured everyone’s heart right from the first note. “It’s as if Hornung were from another planet”, wrote a critic on ‘Die Zeit’. That must have been the planet ‘Music’. Hornung was born with his musical intuition and unerring stylistic instinct. He has no time for vain ‘selfies’. He plays himself out of the picture and makes you forget everything around you. All that remains is the music.
Music of the most varied nature. Virtually symphonic in Beethoven’s First Cello Sonata, one of the first highlights in this genre. Dance-like and theatrical in Stravinsky’s ‘Suite italienne’, an adaptation of his ballet ‘Pulcinella’. Passionate and dramatic in Martinu’s First Sonata, which he wrote shortly after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Music that gets under your skin.