Wiener Singakademie / Pro Brass / Heinz Ferlesch

• Opera

Passion is a stormy, often exuberant desire to want and do things not only well, but in the best possible way – or to put it in the words of the French writer Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort: »Through passion, man lives, through reason he merely exists.«



Pro Brass and the Wiener Singakademie present new arrangements of Händel’s »Fireworks Music« and the coronation anthem »Zadok the Priest«, among others. Incidentally, the latter should also ring in the ears of passionate football fans. There is also the third movement from Werner Pirchner’s »Firewater Music« and the two-choir »Miserere« by Gregorio Allegri – the legendary work that was performed every Holy Week in the Sistine Chapel from the 1630s until 1870 and whose copying ban the 14-year-old Mozart elegantly circumvented by writing it down from memory after hearing it once.

PERFORMERS

Wiener Singakademie choir

Pro Brass wind ensemble

Heinz Ferlesch conductor

PROGRAM

Heinrich VIII.
Pastyme with good companie / Courtsong to 3 voices

Georg Friedrich Händel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

Johann Sebastian Bach
Bist du bei mir BWV 508

Lorenz Raab
Meditation

Gregorio Allegri
Miserere

Christian Mühlbacher
Hang zum Geist

Eric Whitacre
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine

Werner Pirchner
SOS – Im Brunnen vor dem Tore (Firewater-Music aus »Die drei Jahreszeiten«, komponiert während der Scheiße in Tschernobyl PWV 22

riks Eenvalds
Stars

Mark Knopfler
Brothers in Arms

Georg Friedrich Händel
Zadok the Priest