Eva Mattes & Trio Orelon
The Song of Triumphant Love
Ivan Turgenev's novella The Song of Triumphant Love is a parable of the forcefulness of desire, the secret of art and the tender magic of the unspeakable. It is about the author's love for the singer Pauline, who was married to his friend, the writer Louis Viardot. He left Russia for it and pursued the couple until the end of his life.
For the Russian cosmopolitan and intermediary between East and West, passion, friendship and art were inextricably intertwined. He considered music to be something more than a mere accompaniment – it was the language of his longing, the breath of his poetry. Eva Mattes lends her voice to Turgenev's poetic universe, whilst the prize-winning Trio Orelon establishes musical connections to Gabriel Fauré, Pauline Viardot, Maurice Ravel and others. Language and sound merge to become an exquisite and captivating dialogue between literature and music, between East and West, and also between reality and dreams.
Eva Mattes has acted on stage and in front of the camera since the age of twelve. In around two hundred film and theatre productions, she has been directed by R. W. Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Michael Verhoeven and Peter Zadek, amongst others, and has won many prizes for her performances. From 2002 to 2016, she played the police inspector Klara Blum in the episodes of the long-running crime series Tatort that are set in the town of Constance by Lake Constance. She has recorded more than one hundred audio books, including the collected works of Jane Austen, and performs her musical-literary programmes on stages all over Germany.
Trio Orelon came together in Cologne in 2019. It is one of the most exciting chamber music ensembles of its generation. The trio has already won the first prize in various competitions, for example in the TV channel ARD's renowned international music competition, the Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Chamber Music Competition in Graz and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. In guest performances, the trio has filled concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Pierre-Boulez-Saal Berlin with its exquisite sound and passionate intensity. The name 'Orelon', which is Esperanto for 'ear', stands for the sensuous auditory perception that characterises the trio's joint performances.
