Even a modified Festival programme would be unthinkable without one very special concert venue: the Kollegienkirche. With reference to Luigi Nono, it will host a brief but invaluable series entitled Fragments – Silence, which the Salzburg Festival has conceived with ensembles and artists whose original projects have had to be modified or cancelled due to the decrees and restrictions governing this summer. The series launches with Emilio Pomàrico and Klangforum Wien performing in vain by Georg Friedrich Haas, followed by Cantando Admont under Cordula Bürgi. The Minguet Quartet focuses on the work which lends the series its title: Luigi Nono’s Fragmente – Stille, an Diotima for string quartet. It is based on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, whose 250th birthday is celebrated this year – just like Beethoven’s. The composer explained his work as ‘silent songs from other spheres, other heavens. The performers should “sing” them.’ The ‘fragments’ Nono transformed musically in his work were taken from pieces by Johannes Ockeghem, Giuseppe Verdi and Ludwig van Beethoven, all of which are also part of this concert programme. Under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling, Otto Katzameier and Klangforum Wien dedicate themselves to Salvatore Sciarrino’s oeuvre in the last concert of the series.