Reiko Füting: act: ab-stain, from/Unheard-Of Ensemble

Subtitle: Komposition 2 für Klarinette, Geige, Violoncello und Klavier/Composition for Clarinet, Violin, Violoncell, and Piano (2021)
Program Note: act: ab-stain, from, for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano, was commissioned by the Barlow Foundation for the Unheard-Of Ensemble. It is based on the composition “Da pacem, domine” by Heinrich Schütz, and on the hymn “O frommer Christ herzlich betracht” as set by Johann Hermann Schein. Both compositions were written during the Thirty Years’ War. The title is a reference to the following question by Hannah Arendt, which appears in spoken form in the last movement: “Could the activity of thinking as such be among the conditions that make humans abstain from evil-doing?”