Context

Xilin Wang is one of the most significant contemporary composers in China, creating music filled with inner turmoil. Not even 14 years of political exile and persecution during the Cultural Revolution could hold him back. When his Fifth Symphony, dedicated to the writer Lu Xun, is performed, the Small Hall of the Elbphilharmonie transforms into an audiovisual echo chamber of blindness and shimmer, of friction and fury.

In a captivating concert stream, the Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz, led by Johannes Kalitzke, performs a symphony by the revolutionary free spirit from China.