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Helmut Schmidinger:
… continuierlich … Metamorphoses for harpsichord and strings (premiere, commissioned by the L’Orfeo Barockorchester)

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

Erich Traxler, harpsichord
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“ (Die Presse, W. Weidringer).

As a counterpoint Helmut Schmidinger employs the harpsichord, Early Music’s instrument par excellence, in this commissioned work in a contemporary fashion.

Helmut Schmidinger:
… continuierlich … Metamorphoses for harpsichord and strings (premiere, commissioned by the L’Orfeo Barockorchester)

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

Erich Traxler, harpsichord
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“ (Die Presse, W. Weidringer).

As a counterpoint Helmut Schmidinger employs the harpsichord, Early Music’s instrument par excellence, in this commissioned work in a contemporary fashion.

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

Hardly known works by great masters of music history or musical languages neglected on European opera stages have been given a platform at the donauFESTWOCHEN since 1995 – in the 30th season Joseph Haydn’s Die wüste Insel (The desert Island): a gripping plot based on motifs from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, dramatic, orchestral accompagnati for the recitatives, seven stirring arias and a wonderful quartet for the finale.

Now this operatic jewel with the L’Orfeo Barockorchester is coming to the stage of Greinburg Castle for the festival’s anniversary.

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

Hardly known works by great masters of music history or musical languages neglected on European opera stages have been given a platform at the donauFESTWOCHEN since 1995 – in the 30th season Joseph Haydn’s Die wüste Insel (The desert Island): a gripping plot based on motifs from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, dramatic, orchestral accompagnati for the recitatives, seven stirring arias and a wonderful quartet for the finale.

Now this operatic jewel with the L’Orfeo Barockorchester is coming to the stage of Greinburg Castle for the festival’s anniversary.

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

Hardly known works by great masters of music history or musical languages neglected on European opera stages have been given a platform at the donauFESTWOCHEN since 1995 – in the 30th season Joseph Haydn’s Die wüste Insel (The desert Island): a gripping plot based on motifs from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, dramatic, orchestral accompagnati for the recitatives, seven stirring arias and a wonderful quartet for the finale.

Now this operatic jewel with the L’Orfeo Barockorchester is coming to the stage of Greinburg Castle for the festival’s anniversary.

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

Hardly known works by great masters of music history or musical languages neglected on European opera stages have been given a platform at the donauFESTWOCHEN since 1995 – in the 30th season Joseph Haydn’s Die wüste Insel (The desert Island): a gripping plot based on motifs from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, dramatic, orchestral accompagnati for the recitatives, seven stirring arias and a wonderful quartet for the finale.

Now this operatic jewel with the L’Orfeo Barockorchester is coming to the stage of Greinburg Castle for the festival’s anniversary.

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

Hardly known works by great masters of music history or musical languages neglected on European opera stages have been given a platform at the donauFESTWOCHEN since 1995 – in the 30th season Joseph Haydn’s Die wüste Insel (The desert Island): a gripping plot based on motifs from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, dramatic, orchestral accompagnati for the recitatives, seven stirring arias and a wonderful quartet for the finale.

Now this operatic jewel with the L’Orfeo Barockorchester is coming to the stage of Greinburg Castle for the festival’s anniversary.

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.

Johann Sebastian Bach:

Concerto F major for harpsichord, 2 recorders, 2 violins, viola and b. c. BWV 1057

„Widerstehe doch der Sünde“ BWV 54
Cantata for alto, 2 violins, 2 violas and b. c.

„Der Friede sei mit dir“ BWV 158
Cantata for bass, oboe, violin and b. c.

„Gott soll allein mein Herze haben“ BWV 169
Cantata for alto, 2 oboi d’amore, oboe da caccia, 2 violins, viola, obbligato organ and b. c.

„Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen“ (Kreuzstab Cantata) BWV 56
Cantata for bass, 2 oboes, obboe da caccia, 2 violins, viola & b. c.

Margot Oitzinger, alto
Peter Kooij, bass

Carin van Heerden & Philipp Wagner, recorders
Erich Traxler, harpsichord
Jan Jansen, organ
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

Johann Sebastian Bach:

Concerto F major for harpsichord, 2 recorders, 2 violins, viola and b. c. BWV 1057

„Widerstehe doch der Sünde“ BWV 54
Cantata for alto, 2 violins, 2 violas and b. c.

„Der Friede sei mit dir“ BWV 158
Cantata for bass, oboe, violin and b. c.

„Gott soll allein mein Herze haben“ BWV 169
Cantata for alto, 2 oboi d’amore, oboe da caccia, 2 violins, viola, obbligato organ and b. c.

„Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen“ (Kreuzstab Cantata) BWV 56
Cantata for bass, 2 oboes, obboe da caccia, 2 violins, viola & b. c.

Margot Oitzinger, alto
Peter Kooij, bass

Carin van Heerden & Philipp Wagner, recorders
Erich Traxler, harpsichord
Jan Jansen, organ
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Ouverture from Les Indes galantes
Georg Philipp Telemann: Overture-suite in A minor for recorder, strings and b.c. TWV 55:a2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord concerto no. 1 in D minor BWV 1052

Carin van Heerden, recorder
Erich Traxler, harpsichord
L’Orfeo Barockorchester

Free admission (registration required)

Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria WAB 6
Mass (No. 1) in D minor for soli, 4-part mixed choir, orchestra and organ, WAB 26 (1864, rev. 1876, 1881-82)
and other choir works
KollerMandel: Ad Astra

Barbara Doss, soprano
Christa Ratzenböck, alto
Markus Miesenberger, tenor
Reinhard Mayr, bass

Chorhaus Frohsinn: Singakademie Linz
Hard-Chor TNG – The New Generation
Hard-Chor Linz

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Bernhard Prammer, organ
Alexander Koller, direction

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

Dorothee Mields, soprano
Margot Oitzinger, alto
Virgil Hartinger, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass

Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

The Brucknerhaus Linz will host Michi Gaigg and her L’Orfeo Barockorchester with the Collegium Vocale and four renowned singers for Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. All six parts of this masterpiece will be performed. It wasn’t intended to be performed this way though 290 years ago: Bach composed the six cantatas to be performed during the sermons in the period between the 25th December 1734 and Epiphany Sunday on 6th January 1735.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Parts (Cantatas) IV-VI

Dorothee Mields, soprano
Margot Oitzinger, alto
Virgil Hartinger, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass

Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction

The Brucknerhaus Linz will host Michi Gaigg and her L’Orfeo Barockorchester with the Collegium Vocale and four renowned singers for Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. All six parts of this masterpiece will be performed. It wasn’t intended to be performed this way though 290 years ago: Bach composed the six cantatas to be performed during the sermons in the period between the 25th December 1734 and Epiphany Sunday on 6th January 1735.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Parts (Cantatas) I & IV-VI

Ekaterina Krasko, soprano
Margot Oitzinger, alto
Virgil Hartinger, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass

Collegium Vocale Salzburg
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, direction