MUSIK AM 13. : Virtuoso choral music by Biber and Kerll

Programm

Virtuoso choral music by Biber and Kerll

Johann Kaspar Kerll 1627-1693
Missa in fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis (1689)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber 1644-1704
Psalmi de B. M. Virgine – first performance in Baden-Württemberg
from: Vesperae longiores ac breviores una cum litaniis Lauretanis (1693)

Simone Schwark, soprano
Alexander Schneider, alto
David Munderloh, tenor
Eric Price, tenor
Dominik Wörner, bass
CANTUS STUTTGART
BACHORCHESTER STUTTGART
Jörg-Hannes Hahn, conductor

Introduction 7.30pm: Andrea Braun

Tickets at €20-30 (reductions of -50% for Cat. II-IV) via +49 (0)711/2 555 555, www.bachchor.com and at the box office

Zum Programm

In 1683 the city of Vienna was besieged by the Ottoman army. Johann Kaspar Kerll experienced the fears and horrors of these weeks and, overwhelmed by impressions, wrote his “Messe zum Trost in der Wehklage über die Belagerung Wiens” – an exceptional musical testimony of war. A few years later Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber published his vesper compositions in honour of the Mother of God – intimately scored, but grandiose works, which show the Salzburg court music director at the height of his inspirational power.