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Soft sounds in a lace tutu

Medinger monastery concert-summer begun with guitar duo

Laura and Samuel Klemke were convincing during the opening concert in the Brauhaus Medingen.
Photos: KAISER

BAD BEVENSEN-MEDINGEN - They are an enchanting couple, apparently just risen from the Victorian era: Samuel and Laura Klemke. In two different ways, optical and acoustic.

Of this the guests of the Medinger monastery could see for themselves on Saturday, when the traditional music-summer began - as always in the Brauhaus. The sisters Klemke, now 28 and 26 years old, were capable of reading music at the age of four, they gave their first guitar solo evening at the age of seven and gathered prizes in national and international competitions. Being at home in Ostholstein, both finished their diploma studies at the Franz Liszt Music Academy Weimar, and now they are studying post-graduate.

What they offered in their Medinger concert with music of four centuries, made people dream. Without any deficiency, agile and fond of playing, the musical spirit revealed an enigmatic depths, beauty became passionate. With loseness and elegance equally, and with an admirable identy of playing together, the Spanish, Italian and French notes were played immeasurably softly, like a breath of wind only, and increasing furiously, energetically phrased without shrilly stepping false.

“If music be the food of love, play on!”, Shakespeare writes. It was very simple to imagine Elisabeth I, Henry V’s elder daughter, having a rest from her stress with Maria Stuart by listening to such spherical sounds. (Although there were no scores from the 16th century!) Long-lasting applause thanked the young soloists for an insistent, suggestive work with their instrument.

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BARBARA KAISER