2019 - Take Six, Farewell-Concert, Bogotá, Vespro Della Beata, Roi David
22 March 2019: TAKE SIX - Long Night of Austrian universities of music
Anton Bruckner Private University Linz
For the fourth time all of the six Austrian universities of music and performing arts gathered to present highlights of their current artistic development.
In 2019 this remarkable cooperation was hosted by the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Young artists were invited to perform a program of great diversity, ranging from chamber music and jazz to acting and contemporary dance.
That year the mdw was represented by the Webern Chamber Choir!
Program
Johannes Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben, op.74/1
Johannes Brahms: aus Sieben Leider op.62
Rosmarin
Von alten Liebesliedern
Waldesnacht
All meine Herzgedanken
Robert Schumann: aus vier Gesänge op.59
1. An die Sterne
4. Talismane
Robert Schumann: Zigeunerleben
11 April 2019: Farewell concert in Vienna
Parts of the Colombia tour program were presented:
Romantic choral pieces by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, a cappella or accompanied by piano as well as horns and harp.
Soloists
Ana-Maria Brkic, Soprano
Julia Bayer, Mezzosoprano
Günter Haumer, Bariton
Melissa Danas, Jason Pfiester, Horn
Angela Rief, Harp
Humi Shimizu, Piano
14-21 April 2019: CHORAL BRIDGES concert tour to Bogotá, Colombia
to the International Music Festival Bogotá
The Webern chamber choir travelled to Colombia to perfor to different programs in concert:
1) Franz Schubert's Mass in Eb Major together with the Chamber orchestra Antwerpen conducted by Robert Trevino
2) A romantic a-cappella-program with works by Schubert, Brahms etc.
Aiko Sakurai & Ana-Marija Brkic, Soprano
Friedolin Obersteiner, Altus
Julian Henao Gonzales & Kirlianit Cortes Galves, Tenor
Alexander Aigner, Bariton
Daniel Gutmann, Bass
Webern chamber choir, mdw
instrumental ensemble made up of students and teachers of mdw
Artistic director: Alois Glaßner
Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi of the evening vespers on Marian feasts, scored for soloists, choirs, and orchestra. It is an ambitious work in scope and in its variety of style and scoring, and has a duration of around 90 minutes. Published in Venice (with a dedication to Pope Paul V dated 1 September 1610), it is sometimes called Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610.
Monteverdi composed the music while musician and composer for the Gonzagas, the Dukes of Mantua. The libretto is compiled from several Latin biblical and liturgical texts. The 13 movements include the introductory Deus in adiutorium, five psalms, four concertato motets and a vocal sonata on the "Sancta Maria" litany, several differently scored stanzas of the hymn "Ave maris stella", and a choice of two Magnificats. The composition demonstrates Monteverdi's ability to assimilate both the new seconda pratica, such as in the emerging opera, and the old style of the prima pratica, building psalms and Magnificat on the traditional plainchant as a cantus firmus.
No performance during the composer's lifetime can be positively identified from surviving documents, though parts of the work might have been performed at the ducal chapels in Mantua and at St Mark's in Venice, where the composer became director of music in 1613. The work received renewed attention from musicologists and performers in the 20th century, who discussed whether it was a planned composition in a modern sense or a collection of music suitable for Vespers, and debated the role of the added movements, instrumentation, keys and other issues of historically informed performance.
Monteverdi's Vespers are regarded as a unique milestone of music history, at the transition from Renaissance to Baroque.
Program
| Heinrich Schütz | Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt (Psalm 100) |
| Thomas Tomkins | When David heard |
| Arthur Honegger | Le Roi David (Symphonic Psalm) |
Johanna Wallroth, Soprano
Tanja Glinsner, Alto
Hugo Paulsson, Tenor
Sprecher: Etienne Halsdorf
Webern Chamber Choir, mdw
Instrumental Ensemble, mdw
Artistic director: Alois Glaßner
In 2019/2020 one of the most important oratorios of the 20th century was presented:
Arthur Honegger's symphonic psalm „Le Roi David“ in the version for wind section.