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Bach, Pärt, Shaw, Nystedt, Tavener - Grenzüberschreitendes Leuchtturmprojekt

Saturday, 9/26/2026 at 7:00 PM

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Bach, Pärt, Shaw, Nystedt, Tavener - Grenzüberschreitendes Leuchtturmprojekt

Saturday, 9/26/2026
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Grenzüberschreitendes Leuchtturmprojekt
Motets by J. S. Bach and a cappella works by A. Pärt, C. Shaw, K. Nystedt, and J. Tavener

Bach's motets are among the highlights of polyphonic choral literature. In contrast to the floating sound worlds of the a cappella works by Arvo Pärt, Caroline Shaw, Knut Nystedt, and John Tavener, a concert program unfolds full of tonal diversity and cross-epochal beauty, performed by young musicians from Germany, France, and Switzerland.

Ensemble:
Vokalakademie Freiburg with musical involvement from the Kammerchor der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, students from the Conservatoire de Strasbourg & the HEAR, and singers from the Trinational Youth Choir Academy - ACTE J, Artistic Direction: Frank Markowitsch

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Motets de J. S. Bach et œuvres a cappella d’A. Pärt, C. Shaw, K. Nystedt et J. Tavener

Les motets de Jean-Sébastien Bach figurent parmi les chefs-d'œuvre de la littérature chorale polyphonique. En contraste avec les paysages sonores suspendus des œuvres a cappella d'Arvo Pärt, Caroline Shaw, Knut Nystedt et John Tavener, ce programme fait dialoguer les époques dans une fascinante diversité de couleurs et de sonorités, porté par de jeunes musiciennes et musiciens d'Allemagne, de France et de Suisse.

Les artistes: Vokalakademie Freiburg, avec la participation musicale du Kammerchor de la Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, d'étudiants du Conservatoire de Strasbourg et de la HEAR, ainsi que de chanteuses et chanteurs de l'Académie Chorale Trinationale d'Excellence pour les Jeunes - ACTE J ; direction artistique : Frank Markowitsch

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BACHKURTÁG

Pierre Laurent Aimard plays piano music by Johann Sebastian Bach and György Kurtág

The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard brings no less than 33 pieces for his recital in the hall of the Brüdergemeine Herrnhut. However, most of them are extremely short – they are miniatures by the Hungarian composer György Kurtág, who celebrated his 100th birthday in good health in Budapest last February. Aimard intertwines Kurtág's miniatures with excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" and "The Art of Fugue." The concert offers a rare opportunity to experience correspondences and frictions between the two composers separated by two and a half centuries, played by perhaps the most competent interpreter in the world.

György Kurtág's collection of short piano pieces, titled "Játékok" (Hungarian for "Games"), comprises more than 400 miniatures and is continually expanding. The composer refers to them as "a workshop for my life, a notebook." Kurtág is one of the most significant living composers globally and has worked closely with Pierre-Laurent Aimard for decades, most recently on the album "Kurtág: Játékok," which was released in May 2025. The fact that the pianist juxtaposes his selection from "Játékok" with excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" and "The Art of Fugue" in the concert (both works he has also recorded) is far from a postmodern whim: Kurtág regards Bach's work as a central reference for his own creation. In his program, Aimard also initiates a clever musical dramaturgy. The whole becomes more than the sum of its 33 parts.

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VIELSCHICHTIG

VIELSCHICHTIG. With the Ensemble Resonanz and Enno Poppe, two of the defining forces of contemporary music come together. The Hamburg ensemble has been one of the most innovative and renowned string ensembles in Europe for years. Enno Poppe, on the other hand, is among the most performed and sought-after German composers of the present day. At Musica Viva, he can be experienced not only as a composer but also as the conductor of his own work.

At the center of the program is the idea of expansion. Starting from Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo suites, interpreted by Amarilis Dueñas Castán on cello and viola da gamba, an increasingly larger sound space unfolds step by step. Even in Bach's music, the polyphony seems to be inherent, although only a single instrument sounds.

Caroline Shaw's Entr’acte and Bryce Dessner's Aheym further develop the classical string quartet form in their own way. The highlight is Enno Poppe's Wald, a work for four string quartets, in which sixteen voices merge into a fascinating sound weave. From a single voice, a musical organism of astonishing complexity and brilliance develops. It is rare to experience how organically the thoughts of Johann Sebastian Bach continue into the music of our time.

Students and trainees up to the age of 27, as well as the unemployed, holders of a social pass, and severely disabled individuals (100%) are entitled to purchase discounted tickets for the events within the framework of the Musica Viva festival.

Kukuk card holders can purchase tickets for €1. Accompanying persons for individuals with disabilities have free admission to the concerts. The free ticket can also be booked online and at the advance booking offices. On the day of the concert, a corresponding proof must be shown at the entrance.

Children up to and including 12 years have free admission. These tickets are available exclusively at the box office!

The box office opens one hour before the concert begins.

Photo, video, and audio recordings are not permitted during the events within the framework of the festival.

Entrance: 1 hour before the event begins

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Leadership: Florian Helgath

They are many. They are impressive. They are strong: They are all women who have contributed to music history, and whose pieces are brought into harmonious connection by Chorwerk Ruhr in the concert program "She". At the center is Caroline Shaw with her "Partita for 8 Voices". The US-American composer found inspiration in Sol LeWitt's painting "Wall Drawing 305", which creates a new whole before the eye of the viewer from 100 randomly placed points. And just as the points grow into lines and forms, international female composers from the past and present group around Caroline Shaw. Their life stories enter into harmonious relationships through their works and open new references and horizons in the ears of all listeners.

Program:
Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179): O virtus sapientiae; Caroline Shaw (*1982): Partita for 8 Voices; Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590): Morir non puo; Vittoria Raffaella Aleotti (1575–1620): Surge, proper amica mea; Fanny Hensel (1805–1847): Nacht liegt auf den fremden Wegen; Florence B. Price (1887–1953): Resignation; Alice Tegner (1864–1943): En hymn till stjärnan; Clara Schumann (1819–1896): Gondoliera; Imogen Holst (1907–1984): Hallo, my fancy; Nana Forte (*1981): a new commissioned work for Chorwerk Ruhr

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Admission: 1 hour before the concert begins

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Bridges – Klassik trifft Pop

With Quintense and Ensemble Nobiles, this crossover project unites two internationally renowned ensembles from Leipzig, seemingly opposing sound worlds, into a progressive fusion. The musical spectrum ranges from folk song arrangements to jazz, from Max Reger to Coldplay. Through intertwining and joint interpretations, a sophisticated sound design emerges that artfully combines the voices of both groups and opens up new sonic spaces. An exciting interplay between traditional vocal art and contemporary pop aesthetics allows for both familiar and surprisingly new listening experiences. Finely tuned arrangements and auditory experiments intentionally blur the boundaries of genres and create an atmospheric soundscape.

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Ralph Carmichael (1927–2021): A Quiet Place; trad. Gregorian: Da pacem Domine; Nicholas Petricca (*1987): Iscariot; Thomas Tallis (1505–1585): O Lord in Thee Is All My Trust; John Cage (1912–1992): Litany for the Whale; Carsten Göpfert (*1993): Nachtlied; Max Reger (1873–1916): Nachtlied; Martin Lorenz (*1986): Make a Change; Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007): Scheyerer Messe (Kyrie); Paul Heller: (*1991) Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen; Erik Bosio (*1983): Never More Will the Wind; Knut Nystedt (1915–2014): Immortal Bach; and other pieces

Please note that there are no seating options available at this concert. Visitors with limited mobility can contact the project office of chor.com in advance at projektbuero(at)deutscher-chorverband.de.

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Entrance: 1 hour before the concert begins

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Stimmdimensionen – Werke von Homilius, Mendelssohn und Hosokawa

Conductor: Frieder Bernius

The Stuttgart Chamber Choir, one of the most renowned choirs in Germany, creates acoustic bridges in its program between soloistic and larger choral compositions. Mendelssohn's "Te Deum" is an ideal work for this: It combines passages for smaller ensembles with impressive tutti pieces. The chor.com concert in the Mendelssohn city of Leipzig provides a perfect setting to introduce this still relatively unknown piece to a wider audience. Additionally, Toshio Hosokawa's "Kuraki yori" will be performed. This work, composed to a Japanese poem from the 10th century for eight vocal soloists, once again demonstrates the acoustic dimensions of a project ensemble like the Stuttgart Chamber Choir – and its polyphony serves as a sounding symbol of communication.

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Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785): Five Motets; Knut Nystedt (1915–2014): Immortal Bach for five four-part choirs; Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): The Spirit helps our weakness; Toshio Hosokawa (*1955): Kuraki yori (From the Darkness); Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847): Te Deum for eight vocalists and eight-part choir (with organ accompaniment)

This concert will be recorded by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Photo © Musikpodium Stuttgart

Entry: 1h before the concert begins

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Barock trifft Gegenwart – Bachs Magnificat mit Sätzen von Mårten Jansson

Vox Quadrata

Kammerphilharmonie Mannheim

Conductor: Tristan Meister

Soprano: Johanna Beier, Lisa Schramm

Alto: Johanna Götz

Tenor: Fabian Kelly

Bass: Jona Steuerwald

The professional chamber choir Vox Quadrata and the Chamber Philharmonic Mannheim are building a musical bridge between the baroque music of Johann Sebastian Bach and contemporary sounds from Mårten Jansson. Bach's Magnificat is one of his most popular and successful compositions. In the first version of the piece, performed during Advent 1723, the Leipzig composer had intended four Christmas carols as small inserts between the movements. The renowned Swedish composer Mårten Jansson has now written contemporary insert movements that contrast with Bach's work and open up a different sonority. The also contemporary texts were authored by American poet Charles Anthony Silvestri.

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In cooperation with the Bach Archive Leipzig.

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Es erhub sich ein Streit (BWV 19); Magnificat in D with four insert movements by Mårten Jansson (*1965)

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Admission: 1 hour before the concert begins

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Bach im Dialog – Rethinking the Well-Tempered Clavier

"The Well-Tempered Clavier," as never heard before: in dialogue with Johann Sebastian Bach's chorales, arias, and cantatas. The Swedish-Ukrainian pianist Natalya Pasichnyk draws connections between Johann Sebastian Bach's vocal works and his purely instrumental "Well-Tempered Clavier," creating a coherent story from 48 pieces. Together, the Calmus Ensemble from Leipzig and Pasichnyk now unfold these interpretations sonically: The musicians link the "Well-Tempered Clavier" with texts, thus creating a new artwork. Singing and piano enter into dialogue, language and sound intertwine into a spiritual narrative – a reflection on human existence and Bach's idea of music as a path to the renewal of the spirit.

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Photo @ Anne Hornemann

Admission: 1 hour before the concert starts

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Naht zur Nacht

Conductor: Florian Helgath

On the chor.com Saturday, the audience has the opportunity to be carried away by the sounds of the Swiss elite ensemble Zürcher Sing-Akademie into the musical night. However, the ensemble does not lull the listeners to sleep; instead, it invites them into a dialogue of cultures and choral music between tradition and modernity. One of the central works of the program is the title piece “Naht zur Nacht”, a commissioned work by the Swiss composer Beat Vögele. With a weave of frequencies in the micro-interval range, the listeners are enveloped in the special magic of the encroaching darkness. Vögele's piece is framed by other compositions that address themes such as night and transience, including Johann Sebastian Bach's “Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder”, Johannes Brahms’ “Nachtwache I”, or Heinz Holliger's “Winter 1”.

Program:
Heinz Holliger (*1939): Winter 1 (from: Jahreszeiten); Johann Sebastian Bach (1675–1750): Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder (Chorale from: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen BWV 56); Beat Vögele (*1978): Naht zur Nacht (Nokturnal); Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Nachtwache I (from: Fünf Gesänge opus 104); Francis Poulenc (1899–1963): Un soir de neige; Caroline Shaw (*1982): And the Swallow (Psalm 84); Caroline Shaw: Hematite (No. 5 from: Ochre); Johannes Brahms: Nachtwache II; Hans Koessler (1853–1926): Hymne an die Nacht; Per Nørgârd (1932–2025): Wiigenlied (from: Wie ein Kind); Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016): Die erste Elegie

Photo © Zürcher Sing-Akademie

Admission: 1 hour before the concert starts

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