Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire

Concert

12.9.-13.9.2026

Jahrhunderthalle Bochum

Spiritual music by forgotten masters

A chance discovery in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris recently unearthed a hidden treasure of French church music: La douloureuse passion du Christ (The Sorrowful Passion of Christ) by the composer and organist Charles Tournemire. At the end of the 1930s, he set the emotional version of the Passion by the mystic Anna Katharina Emmerick to music and died without ever hearing the work performed. At the same time in Warsaw, the then 23-year-old Roman Padlewski composed a moving Stabat Mater. This is one of his few surviving compositions. He died fighting for the resistance during the Warsaw uprising, most of his works were destroyed by the fascists. Two composers from a fractured Europe, yet spiritually connected by their deep faith. They find resonance in Erased Music, a concert series against forgetting, featuring Chorwerk Ruhr and the Bochum Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Florian Helgath.

Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, Axelle Saint-Cirel, Enguerrand de Hys, Florian Helgath, Jérôme Boutillier, Bochumer Symphoniker, Chorwerk Ruhr © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, f.l.t.r. Axelle Saint-Cirel, Enguerrand de Hys, Jérôme Boutillier, Christian Schmitt © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, f.l.t.r. Axelle Saint-Cirel, Enguerrand de Hys, Florian Helgath, Bochumer Symphoniker © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, Chorwerk Ruhr, Bochumer Symphoniker, Christian Schmitt, Axelle Saint-Cirel, Enguerrand de Hys, Jérôme Boutillier, Florian Helgath © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, Chorwerk Ruhr, Bochumer Symphoniker © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, Axelle Saint-Cirel © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, f.l.t.r. Axelle Saint-Cirel, Enguerrand de Hys, Florian Helgath © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, Chorwerk Ruhr © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026
Erased Music: Roman Padlewski & Charles Tournemire, Chorwerk Ruhr © Christian Palm, Ruhrtriennale 2026

Cast

- CHORWERK RUHR,
- Bochumer Symphoniker
With
- Jérôme Boutillier (Voix du Christ),
- Axelle Saint-Cirel (La Récitante),
- Enguerrand de Hys (Le Récitant),
- Christian Schmitt (organ)
Conductor
- Florian Helgath
Composition
- Charles Tournemire,
- Roman Padlewski
Production Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Charlotte Wulff
Stage Management
- Jens Fischer
Technical Project Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Ole Meißner
Technician
- Konrad Anger,
- Schirin Boudny,
- Dirk Heymann,
- Torben Krol,
- Jan Kunz,
- Jan Küppers,
- Imke Linde,
- Anke Lindner,
- Stefan Rausch,
- Fanny Schmidt,
- Ralph Schwarzenauer
Dressing and Costume Team Ruhrtriennale
- Sabine Höhfeld