2018 - Farewell concert, Following Bach´s Trails, Pärt Passio, Missa Claravallensis, Barocco e Latino, Criolla & Oratorio 

 

3 February 2018: FAREWELL CONCERT Following Bach's trails

Joseph Haydn hall, mdw

 

A night before leaving for the concert tour through Germany "following Bach's trails" to important places at which the great master worked and acted, the Webern chamber choir presented parts of its program prepared for the tour.

 

Program:

Motets of the Bach family
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Cantus Missae Eb-Major
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Jauchzet dem Herrn op. 69
Wolfram Wagner: Magnificat
and works by Jake Runestad, Knut Nystedt and Moses Hogan

 

4-11 February 2018: Tour "Following Bach's trails"

Concerts

 

Feb 5th Leipzig - Michaeliskirche

Feb 7th Arnstadt - Bachkirche

Feb 9th Jena - St. Michael

Feb 10th Weimar - Herderkirche

February in Germany was very cold, so of course the whole choir was wearing warm clothing when heading out. Group picture in the hotel in Leipzig In the bright, beautiful Bach's church in Arnstadt, Mr. Glaßner told the audience about the program they were about to hear from the choir. In Arnstadt's Bachkirche

 

 

25 March 2018: PASSIO SECUNDUM DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI SECUNDUM JOANNEM - Arvo Pärt

Church St. Ursula, 1010 Vienna

For soloists, mixed choir, instrumental quartet and organ

Imbedded in the Palm Sunday liturgy this meditative and enthralling interpretation of John's passion was performed. 
A collaboration project between institute 8 and institute 20.

 

 

Ana-Marija Brkić, Soprano
Johanna Zachhuber, Alto
Bálint Németh, Tenor
Sebastian Taschner, Tenor
Matthias Liener, Bariton
Ricardo Martinez Bojorquez, Bass

Julia Brunner, Violin
Stefan Peindl, Oboe
Thomas Grimm, Bassoon
Klara Wetzel, Cello
Peter Tiefengraber, Organ

WebernKammerchor

Artistic director: Alois Glaßner

 

 

09 June 2018: Missa Claravallensis - Gottfried von Einem

Franciscan church, 1010 Vienna

 

30 years after its composition, the Webern Chamber Choir performed "Missa Claravallensis" in a Holy Mass at the Franciscan church in Vienna. It was originally written on the occasion of the 850-year-anniversary of the Collegiate Church in Zwettl.

 

 

10 June 2018: Missa Claravellensis - Gottfried von Einem

Collegiate Church of Zwettl

 

30 years after its composition, the Webern Chamber Choir performed "Missa Claravallensis" on the place of its debut performance. It was originally written on the occasion of the 850-year-anniversary of the Collegiate Church in Zwettl.

 

 

 

08 December 2018: Barocco e Latino

Kulturfabrik Hainburg, Hainburger Haydngesellschaft

 

Festive and baroque sounds of Christmas from France, Italy and Germany, played by the Webern Chamber Philharmonics, made up the first part of the evening. Then the Ensemble Autoctono and the Webern Chamber Choir performed the famous and electrifying "Misa Criolla" that was written by the Argentinian Ariel Ramirez, thus taking the audience on a journey to Latin America. Artistic director of the evening was the young Colombian conductor Roger Diaz Cajamarca.

 

The three young men, tenor soloists and conductor were cordially applauded by the audience.

Tenors Julian Henao Gonzales and Kirlianit Cortés with the conductor Roger Díaz Cajamarca

The whole evening was a great success.

Program:

Michel Richard de Lalande: Symphonie de Nöel

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Trumpets and Basso continuo, C-Major, RV 537 „Christmas concert“

Georg Friedrich Händel: Selected dances of the water music

Ariel Ramírez: Misa Criolla

 

Webern Chamber Philharmonics
Webern Chamber Choir
Ensemble Autóctono
Julian Henao Gonzales, Tenor
Kirlianit Cortés, Tenor
Artistic director: Roger Díaz Cajamarca

 

 

11 December 2018: Misa Criolla & Oratorio de Noel - Christmas concert

Church of St. Gertrud, 1180 Vienna

Two of the most interesting international pieces on Christmas

Program:

Ariel Ramirez - "Misa Criolla"
Instrumental ensemble Autóctona
Soloists: Iván Benitez & Julián Henao Gonzalez

Camille Saint-Saens - "Oratorio de Noel"
Soloists: Magdalena Hallste & Ana-Marija Brkic, Soprano
Doria Thürr, Alto
Jakob Pejcic, Tenor
Andres Alzate Gaviria, Bass

Instrumental ensemble made up of students of musical pedagogy 
Conducted by choral conducting students

Artistic director: Alois Glaßner