MUSIK AM 13. : The Foundlinghouse

Programm

Detlef Heusinger b. 1956
The Foundlinghouse – first performance

Inga Schäfer, Alma Unseld, soprano
Doron Schleifer, countertenor
Lorenz Kauffer, baritone
FREIBURG CATHEDRAL GIRLS’ CHOIR
BACHORCHESTER STUTTGART
Detlef Heusinger, stage direction
Jörg-Hannes Hahn, conductor

Introduction 7.30pm: Detlef Heusinger

Admission free, donations welcome

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This is how it might sound if Handel’s music reaches the present day by magic. Composer Detlef Heusinger imagines a benefit concert tour by the Baroque master through the Germany of today. In aid of the first London foundling hospital, which Handel historically supported energetically, he now performs his oratorio “The Triumph of Time and Truth” together with the orphans. Whilst a narrator explains the scenes, the music goes more and more off the rails until it finally arrives in the present day.