Bruckner Matinee
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Upper Austrian Mozart Ensemble
Erwin Ortner - Conductor
Johanna Krokovay - soprano
Ursula Langmayr - alto
Michael Nowak - tenor
Johannes Gisser - bass
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Mass No. 1 in D minor WAB 26 (1864)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Peace on Earth, op. 13 (1911)
Arvo Pärt (*1935)
Nunc dimittis (2001)
Virgencita (2012/2013)
Little Litany (2015)
A choral program in 2024 simply has to include Anton Bruckner. Confessional music, filled with Bruckner's unshakeable piety. Even in his first mass, Bruckner chose the rhythmic, harmonic and melodic material very consciously: Every key, every modulation, every cadence became, under his hand, a "text module" of a musical language rich in meaning.
Arnold Schoenberg's "Friede auf Erden", a setting of a Christmas poem by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, has been firmly anchored in the Arnold Schoenberg Choir's repertoire from the very beginning and is undisputedly one of the most moving works for mixed choir a cappella.
It is usually said of Arvo Pärt's compositional development that he began as an avant-garde "bad boy", was generally experimental and complicated, garish-sounding, uncompromisingly serial, then fell silent for almost a decade and then re-emerged completely changed and has been writing beautiful, unearthly, melodious music ever since. His "Kleine Litanei" is explicitly dedicated to the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and its conductor Erwin Ortner, a choir "whose quality I have admired for many years. He is one of those interpreters of my music who seem to understand my world immediately" (Arvo Pärt).
An introduction to the work will take place at 10:00 in the foyer on the 1st floor.
Ticket prices: €69,00 | €59,00