FULL Chorkonzert mit dem SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart 2023
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Chorkonzert mit dem SWR Vokalensemble
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: EvangelischenKirche Gaisburg, Stuttgart, Germany
- Recorded: July 29, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers:
- Conductor: Martina Batič
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: SWR Vokalensemble
- Chorus Master: Martina Batič
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Klassik | SWR Kultur
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Rainer Maria Rilke’s “First Elegy” opens the concert and sets the motto in Einojuhani Rautavaara’s setting like a trombone: It’s about lamentations and music that uses art to find ways to overcome sadness, pain and hopelessness. Heinz Holliger lost his sister, his cousin and his daughter in quick succession and dedicated a madrigal to each of them as an obituary: intimate, artistic and very personal works that weave a network of memories and connections to loved ones. Toshio Hosokawa composes an atmospheric image: deep darkness penetrated by gentle moonlight. Herbert Howell’s Requiem for twelve-part choir, on the other hand, is a harmonious sea of flames: he grips the listener with sound, lets the choir become a great organ and also elicits otherworldly, delicate shimmering from it.
Programm:
00:01:25 Herbert Howells: Requiem für zwölf Stimmen
00:26:26 Toshio Hosokawa: Kuraki-yori – From Darkness für 24-stimmigen Chor (Uraufführung, Kompositionsauftrag des SWR)
00:36:20 Heinz Holliger: Drei Madrigale (Uraufführung, Kompositionsauftrag des SWR)
01:04:11 Edward Elgar: Lux aeterna für achtstimmigen Chor
01:09:21 Einojuhani Rautavaara: Erste Elegie für gemischten Chor