Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew’s Passion BWV 244

Collegium Vocale Salzburg and its soloists
Virgil Hartinger, evangelist
Stefan Zenkl, Jesus

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michael Schneider, director

A composition which moves and quietens us, leaving us contemplative. We are thrilled to join forces once again with our longstanding Salzburg colleagues.

Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew’s Passion BWV 244

Collegium Vocale Salzburg and its soloists
Virgil Hartinger, evangelist
Stefan Zenkl, Jesus

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michael Schneider, director

A composition which moves and quietens us, leaving us contemplative. We are thrilled to join forces once again with our longstanding Salzburg colleagues.

“Utopia with Bach”

Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concertos No. 1 in F major BWV 1046, No. 4 in G major BWV 1049, No. 5 in D major BWV 1050 & No. 2 in F major BWV 1047

“A utopia with Bach” is presented in Raiding with four of the “Six concerts avec plusieurs instruments”. Bach demanded unprecedented and challenging virtuosic playing from his musicians. The history of the Brandenburg concertos commences in 1721. Back then Bach was chapel master at the court in Köthen and was considering changing his job. His manuscript of the Brandenburg concertos is dedicated to the Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg who maintained an excellent court orchestra and could therefore be regarded as a “letter” of application. Whether the Margrave took notice or even appreciated these works is not recorded. Until 1850 they remained unused in the court library. Only in the 20th century they became synonymous with the “top hits in Classical music”.

L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, director

Dreams come true (for any wind ensemble) if one plays this masterpiece:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 10 in B flat major K. 361 “Gran Partita”
Texts by Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Shaffer and from letters by W. A. Mozart
Concert introduction: Albert Hosp

L’Orfeo Bläserensemble
Carin van Heerden, oboe & director

Marianna von Martines Overture in C major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 23 in A major K. 488
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sinfonie in E minor Wq. 178 H. 653 “Berlin Symphony No. 3”
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D major Hob. I:104 “London”

To celebrate our 30th anniversary we would like to bring a metropolitan flair to the Brucknerhaus in Linz. Apart from Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, composed in 1795 during his second visit to London, we also present Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s third “Berlin Symphony” which he composed while in service with Frederic the Great. The first half of the programme includes one of Mozart’s most famous piano concertos, composed in Vienna, preceded by an overture by Marianne von Martines, a pupil of Haydn’s in Vienna. This programme celebrates the First Viennese School and their predecessors, in a way circumscribing our own history.

Olga Pashchenko, fortepiano
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg, conductor

Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in D major for violin, strings and b.c. TWV 22:6
“Vernunft, Geduld und Zeit” & “Stirbt mein Geist durch Dein Verlangen” TWV 22:6
“Mein Vergnügen wird sich fügen” TWV 20:18/1
„Die Hoffnung des Wiedersehens” TWV 20:70
Concerto in e minor for violin, 2 oboes, strings and b.c. TWV 53:e2
“Quillt, ihr überhäuften Tränen” TWV 22:13
“Fließen nichts als bittre Tränen” TWV 22:7
“Ein tröstendes Hoffen auf freudige Stunden” TWV 21:14
a.o.

“Hope is a disposition of the soul to persuade itself that what it desires will come to pass.” This inspiring thought from the great French philosopher René Descartes gave rise to this programme. It conveys the certainty that love prevails over all inner conflicts, dispels our fears and breeds trust. With this matinee we are happy to return with Dorothee Mields to a festival which has been a wonderful partner for many years.

Dorothee Mields, soprano
Julia Huber & Martin Jopp, violin
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Carin van Heerden, oboe, recorder & direction