Copenhagen Concert Hall
The Copenhagen Concert Hall (DR Koncerthuset) is the new Danish Broadcasting Concert Hall (including the venue for the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra ) and an outstanding example of contemporary international architecture. It is part of the overall DR Byen complex , the broadcaster's headquarters, and is located in the north of the Ørestad district of Copenhagen on the island of Amager . The building planned by the French architect Jean Nouvel was opened in January 2009 after ten years of planning.
history
Planning started in 1999. The construction was fraught with scandals, as incorrectly calculated material costs and other miscalculations by Jean Nouvel's Paris architecture office were initially concealed. There were also structural surprises. For example, the earth on Amager was much softer than expected, so that the concert hall had to be laboriously anchored in the ground. For the construction of the building 600 million crowns were estimated; In the end, the project cost 1.7 billion crowns (about 230 million euros). When the politicians refused to make further payments because of the budget overruns, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation had to finance the completion on its own. Their general manager resigned. After a two-year delay, the main hall opened on January 17, 2009 with a concert (with opera singer Bo Skovhus among others ) in the presence of the royal family and the government.
Buildings and Architecture
The cube-shaped building has a blue fiberglass facade and is 45 m high, 100 m long and 45 m wide. It lets the concrete structure of the hall, suspended from three stair towers and resting on six columns, shimmer through. Inside there is a huge foyer and four concert halls of different sizes connected by wide walkways. The largest holds 1,800 visitors and is 24 m high. The shape is outstanding. There are no right angles; In the harmonious, earth-colored luminous auditorium, everything is curved and arched in different radii. The meteor in Peter Høeg's novel Fräulein Smilla's Feeling for Snow had inspired Nouvel to design the large hall as if it were floating freely in the air, “almost as if it had fallen from the sky and then rammed into the floor of Amager ". Rock, pop and jazz events take place in three smaller halls. On the facade, which glows cobalt blue at night, what happens inside can be transferred to the outside by means of oversized light projections.
The Japanese Yasuhisa Toyota created the acoustic concept. An adjustable sound sail weighing 75 tons hovers over the orchestra stage and is supposed to regulate the acoustics precisely . The room acoustics in the main hall were recently exposed to clear criticism. After detailed test measurements, Niels Vilhelm Jordan and Peter Møller Juhl judged that the use of perforated plasterboard and the construction of a listening gallery based on the model of the Berlin Philharmonic were mistakes and prevented a reverberation time of more than two seconds. The chairman of the supervisory board Michael Christiansen rejected the allegations.
Concert organ
The organ was built between 2003 and 2009 by JL van den Heuvel Orgelbouw . The instrument has 91 stops on four manual works and a pedal (organ) , making it the largest organ in Denmark.
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Pairing :
- Normal couplings: II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P, in addition to that, Altkoppel II / I and Melody coupler IV / I
- Sub-octave coupling: I / I, II / I, III / I, III / II, III / III
- Super octave coupling: I / P, III / P
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Playing aids :
- three programmable register crescendo with roller
- 8 × 1000-fold electronic setting system with external storage facility
- MIDI input and output for recording and playback of the organ playing
literature
- Dieter Bartetzko : A blue work for Ørestad. The new concert hall in Copenhagen has become a typical nouvel . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 21, 2009
- Kristina Maidt-Zinke: In the beginning there was a scandal . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 20, 2009
- Søren Schauser: From foundling to desired child . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 8, 2009
- Copenhagen Concert Hall - A strong team on site . Press release by Lindner AG, Arnstorf / Copenhagen, May 2008
Web links
- Official website of the Konzerthaus
- Official website of the Konzerthaus on Danish Broadcasting ( Memento from October 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Copenhagen Concert Hall - Pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Søren Schauser: From waif to a planned child .
- ↑ Signe Bjerre: Acousticians: The sound dies in the Konzerthaus (Danish) Politiken.dk, June 29, 2012
- ↑ More information about the organ
Coordinates: 55 ° 39 ′ 28.6 " N , 12 ° 35 ′ 20.3" E