Name: Jordan, Johannsen, Mühlemann, Lehmkuhl, Güra, Volle, Singverein Bach, Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Start: 2019-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Musikverein

Admin

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Philippe Jordan

Others

Wiener Singverein

Orchestra

Musikverein

Chorus master

Johannes Prinz

Soprano

Regula Mühlemann

Sopran

Robin Johannsen

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Tenor

Werner Güra

Bass

Baritone

Michael Volle

Conductor (+1)

Jordan, Johannsen, Mühlemann, Lehmkuhl, Güra, Volle, Singverein / Bach, Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Vienna

Austria

Großer Saal

Magnificat in D Major BWV 243

Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 303

Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen

Ayyappa swamy y

Approved

Right during his first season as Music Director of the Wiener Symphoniker, Philippe Jordan had included in the programme Bach’s “St Matthew Passion”; this was followed by the Mass in B minor and the “St John Passion”, and later by the Christmas Oratorio in two parts. “It is enormously important for the daily work of an orchestra to play Bach or the music of the Viennese classics on a regular basis. For this type of music, special purity and clarity are absolutely imperative.” These are virtues that are important “for orchestra discipline which is indeed required in the late-romantic repertoire, albeit in a less apparent manner”, Jordan explained at the time concerning the artistic digression from the Orchestra’s core repertoire. To complete his large-scale and critically acclaimed cross-seasonal Bach project, Jordan will now come back to the “rediscovery” of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions by a wider public of music lovers in the first half of the 19th century. This had been triggered by the revival of the St Matthew Passion in 1829 by the then hardly twenty-year-old Felix Mendelssohn, whose “Reformation” Symphony will be included in the programme along with choral works by Bach. Jordan will be supported by a top-class soloist ensemble which has already taken part in previous years, as well as by the Vienna Singverein concert choir.

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