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Xenia presents a special Sunday Feature documentary on Hans Otte for BBC Radio 3 – (1926–2007) – a visionary whose music and career in broadcasting opened doors for generations of listeners. Xenia’s premiere recordings of his unpublished miniatures run throughout the programme. She aims to answer the question of why Otte’s work isn’t better known.The feature examines Otte’s legacy, from his …
December 2026 marks the centenary of German composer and pianist Hans Otte (1926–2007) – a visionary whose music and career in broadcasting opened doors for generations of listeners. Pianist and composer Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett presents a special Sunday Feature documentary for BBC Radio 3. Xenia has performed Otte’s music, worked with several of his collaborators, and brings rare technical, …
An invitation concert hosted by the German Embassy featuring world premieres of recently rediscovered pieces by Hans Otte: Tasten (1997) For Uta (2004) Animato (2003) For Silvia, Smut & Flint (2003) Plus, selections from Stundenbuch / The Book of Hours (1998), Sounds in my Hands (2001) and Das Buch der Klänge / The Book of Sounds (1982).
Xenia performs Hans Otte’s complete introspective and meditative cycle, The Book of Hours – a rare opportunity to hear this immersive masterwork live.
This special concert marks the centenary of the birth of the elusive German composer and pianist, Hans Otte (1926 – 2007). Xenia Pestova Bennett presents Otte’s monumental Das Buch der Klänge (“The Book of Sounds”), now recognised as a cornerstone of meditative minimalism and a forerunner of today’s “post-classical” movement. Lasting just over an hour, the piece is in twelve …
This special concert marks the centenary of the birth of the elusive German composer and pianist, Hans Otte (1926 – 2007). Xenia Pestova Bennett presents Otte’s monumental Das Buch der Klänge (“The Book of Sounds”), now recognised as a cornerstone of meditative minimalism and a forerunner of today’s “post-classical” movement. Lasting just over an hour, the piece is in twelve …
Seductive, beguiling, spiritual, scintillating and transformative: The ‘Book of Sounds’ by the elusive German composer and pianist Hans Otte takes the listener on a mysterious, immersive and meditative journey. Influenced by Zen Buddhism and the idea of healing through sound, the music invites each of us to discover our own resonance. Presented by the acclaimed pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett and …
Xenia will give a piano masterclass in the morning and take part in the Christmas Concert in Letterkenny.
