Symphonies in Images

Music Interpreted through Photography

Tobias Melle has been dealing with the visualization of symphonic music for over 20 years with his Symphonies in Images, creating a stunning atmosphere and transforming the music into a window on the world. In this collaboration between the soloist and photographer Tobias Melle, and conductor Christian Schumann, they create and give visual voices to the orchestral sound in a unique live performance.

Ludwig Van Beethoven Pastoral Symphony: The Beethoven Anniversary Society BTHVN2020 presented the Beethoven Pastoral Project as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP23 in November 2017, this Symphony in Images aims to draw attention to the topic of “mankind and nature” represented in the romantic sense in the Pastoral music. Furthermore it wants to deal actively with today’s urgent questions of environmental protection and global sustainability and achieving the aims of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Beethoven's Symphony No.9 in Images by Tobias Melle © Tobias Melle

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade in 1001 images: Tobias Melle puts his views of the Orient into a larger context. Turkey has inspired him, the music is familiar to him. He shows us an image created beyond the lunacy of present day news – timeless, but no less touching.

Demo Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade in 1001 Images - 1st movement © Tobias Melle

Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony No.9 in Images: This Symphony in Images draws out and re-contextualizes Beethoven’s philosophy in modern terms. “Tobias Melle’s expressive ‘Symphony in Images’ and the orchestra’s musical painting nourish hope for the survival of civilization.” (Frankenpost).

Demo Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Images - 4th mov. © Tobias Melle

Peter I. Tschaikovsky Symphony No.5 in Images:Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony is a deeply emotional piece that deals with abstract ideas such as fate, hope and despair. The search for a photographic interpretation of this work led Tobias Melle to the heart of Russia, to a Russia often overlooked by the casual visitor.

Richard Strauss an Alpine Symphony in Images Richard Strauss‘ symphonic poem “An Alpine Symphony” leads us on a mountain trail via 22 programmed titles, from dawn to dusk, through forests, meadows and storms, over peaks and glaciers.