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

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In 1683, the city of Vienna was besieged by the Ottoman army. Johann Kaspar Kerll witnessed the fears and horrors of those weeks and, overwhelmed by his experiences, composed his “Mass for Comfort in the Lamentation over the Siege of Vienna”—an extraordinary musical testimony to the war. A few years later, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber published his Vesper compositions in honor of the Virgin Mary—intimate yet grandiose works that showcase the Salzburg court Kapellmeister at the height of his creative power. Neither work has ever been performed in Baden-Württemberg.