Events

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Parts (Cantatas) I-III

Shira Patchornik, soprano
Margot Oitzinger, alto
Virgil Hartinger, tenor
Alexander Grassauer, bass

Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Parts (Cantatas) I-III

Shira Patchornik, soprano
Margot Oitzinger, alto
James Gilchrist, tenor
Alexander Grassauer, bass

Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

16:00 Christmas Oratorio for children
with Manuela Kloibmüller, dramaturgy & moderation

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Parts (Cantatas) I-III

Shira Patchornik, soprano
Margot Oitzinger, alto
James Gilchrist, tenor
Alexander Grassauer, bass

Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

11:00 Christmas Oratorio for school children
with Manuela Kloibmüller, dramaturgy & moderation

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Maurerische Trauermusik K 477 (479a)

Laudate Dominum
from „Vesperae solennes de Confessore“ K 339

Requiem D minor K 626

Solists: NN
Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Maurerische Trauermusik K 477 (479a)

Laudate Dominum
from „Vesperae solennes de Confessore“ K 339

Requiem D minor K 626

Solists: NN
Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

Johann Sebastian Bach:

Orchestral Suite No. 1 C major BWV 1066 (c. 1718)
Orchestral Suite No. 2 B minor BWV 1067 (1738–39)
Orchestral Suite No. 3 D major BWV 1068 (1730–31)
Orchestral Suite No. 4 D major BWV 1069 (1725)

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach’s four orchestral suites, presumably written over a period of around 20 years from 1718 onwards, each of which is a free sequence of dance movements preceded by an overture, are among the most popular pieces of Baroque music and contain some of the best-known pieces of classical music, such as the Badinerie (dalliance) that concludes the 2nd Suite or the Air (melody) that comes second in the 3rd Suite. This veritable hit parade is presented in its original sound by the L’Orfeo Barockorchester under the direction of Michi Gaigg.

Johann Sebastian Bach:
St John Passion BWV 245

Christina Gansch, soprano
Ulrike Malotta, alto
Bernhard Berchtold, tenor (Evangelist & arias)
Günter Haumer, bass (Pilatus & arias)
Stefan Zenkl, bass (Christus)

Domkantorei St. Pölten
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Valentin Kunert, direction

Good Friday 1724: Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion is heard for the first time in Leipzig’s St. Nicholas’s Church. “If we are able to play and hear this music three hundred years later, I am struck by only one thing: this music contains an enormous power that repeatedly moves us as deeply as if we were experiencing it for the first time,” says cathedral choirmaster Valentin Kunert, Music Director of the newly-formed Domkantorei St. Pölten, which brings this masterpiece to Festspielhaus St. Pölten along with the L’Orfeo Barockorchester.

Franz Schubert:

Symphony No. 2 B major D 125
Symphony No. 4 C minor D 417 „Tragic“

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, conductor

After its „Symphonic Schubertiade“ of summer 2022, L’Orfeo returns under the direction of Michi Gaigg to the sites of the celebrated event and lets the audience of the Attergau Kultursommer as well as that of the Donaufestwochen in Strudengau participate in its „unpretentiously and intuitively“ executed reading of two works by the early mature master performed „with animo and youthful élan“ (W. Weidringer).

Franz Schubert:

Symphony No. 2 B major D 125
Symphony No. 4 C minor D 417 „Tragic“

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, conductor

After its „Symphonic Schubertiade“ of summer 2022, L’Orfeo returns under the direction of Michi Gaigg to the sites of the celebrated event and lets the audience of the Attergau Kultursommer as well as that of the Donaufestwochen in Strudengau participate in its „unpretentiously and intuitively“ executed reading of two works by the early mature master performed „with animo and youthful élan“ (W. Weidringer).

Joseph Haydn:
Die wüste Insel

Later (German) version of the azione teatrale L’isola disabitata Hob. XXVIII:9
Text by Johann Otto Heinrich Schaum after Pietro Metastasio

Cornelia Traxler, soprano (Constanze)
Marelize Gerber, soprano (Silvia)
Markus Miesenberger, tenor (Fernando)
Stefan Zenkl, bass (Enrico)

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Erich Traxler, musical direction
Manuela Kloibmüller, direction
Isabelle Reder, stage & costumes

A donauFESTWOCHEN im Strudengau 2024 production

Joseph Haydn:
Die wüste Insel

Later (German) version of the azione teatrale L’isola disabitata Hob. XXVIII:9
Text by Johann Otto Heinrich Schaum after Pietro Metastasio

Cornelia Traxler, soprano (Constanze)
Marelize Gerber, soprano (Silvia)
Markus Miesenberger, tenor (Fernando)
Stefan Zenkl, bass (Enrico)

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Erich Traxler, musical direction
Manuela Kloibmüller, direction
Isabelle Reder, stage & costumes

A donauFESTWOCHEN im Strudengau 2024 production

Joseph Haydn:
Die wüste Insel

Later (German) version of the azione teatrale L’isola disabitata Hob. XXVIII:9
Text by Johann Otto Heinrich Schaum after Pietro Metastasio

Cornelia Traxler, soprano (Constanze)
Marelize Gerber, soprano (Silvia)
Markus Miesenberger, tenor (Fernando)
Stefan Zenkl, bass (Enrico)

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Erich Traxler, musical direction
Manuela Kloibmüller, direction
Isabelle Reder, stage & costumes

A donauFESTWOCHEN im Strudengau 2024 production

Joseph Haydn:
Die wüste Insel

Later (German) version of the azione teatrale L’isola disabitata Hob. XXVIII:9
Text by Johann Otto Heinrich Schaum after Pietro Metastasio

Cornelia Traxler, soprano (Constanze)
Marelize Gerber, soprano (Silvia)
Markus Miesenberger, tenor (Fernando)
Stefan Zenkl, bass (Enrico)

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Erich Traxler, musical direction
Manuela Kloibmüller, direction
Isabelle Reder, stage & costumes

A donauFESTWOCHEN im Strudengau 2024 production

Joseph Haydn:
Die wüste Insel

Later (German) version of the azione teatrale L’isola disabitata Hob. XXVIII:9
Text by Johann Otto Heinrich Schaum after Pietro Metastasio

Cornelia Traxler, soprano (Constanze)
Marelize Gerber, soprano (Silvia)
Markus Miesenberger, tenor (Fernando)
Stefan Zenkl, bass (Enrico)

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Erich Traxler, musical direction
Manuela Kloibmüller, direction
Isabelle Reder, stage & costumes

A donauFESTWOCHEN im Strudengau 2024 production

Anton Bruckner:

Psalm 112 in B flat major for two 4-part mixed choirs and orchestra, WAB 35 (1863)

Ave Maria. Offertorium in F major for 7-part mixed choir a cappella, WAB 6 (1861)

“Ecce sacerdos magnus. Responsorium in A minor for 4-part mixed choir, three trombones and organ, WAB 13 (1885)

Mass (No. 1) in D minor for soli, 4-part mixed choir, orchestra and organ, WAB 26 (1864, rev. 1876, 1881-82)*.

as well as works by
Johann Baptist Schiedermayr & Karl Borromäus Waldeck

Hard-Chor Linz
Alexander Koller, direction
* Männerchor der St. Florianer Sängerknaben
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Bernhard Prammer, organ
Michi Gaigg, conductor

In the anniversary year 2024, Bruckner’s D minor Mass, the first of his works in which the later symphonist’s personal signature is clearly recognisable, will be heard again at the place of its premiere, the Old Cathedral in Linz. But that is not all: some of the participants in this concert also have close links to Bruckner’s biography. The Hard Choir, for example, emerged from the Linz Liedertafel „Frohsinn“, which Anton Bruckner led as choir master from 1860 to 1861 and in 1868, and with which he premiered the final chorus of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The male choir of former St. Florian Boys Choir, in turn, recalls that Bruckner’s own musical career began as a choirboy of this monastery, whose organist he later became and under whose organ he is buried. With the L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra under its founder Michi Gaigg, a top ensemble from Upper Austria and an important Upper Austrian conductor are also at work to pay homage to their great compatriot on his 200th birthday.