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Claude LeJeune (c.1528 - 1600): from Le Printemps (1603)
Jean Berger (1909-2002): Six rondeaux (1968)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Cinq rechants (1948)

Chants & Rechants is a new concert program that explores the influence of Renaissance music and texts on French composers of the 20th century. Its central work is the Cinq rechants by Olivier Messiaen, a work inspired by the structure of chants (verses) and rechants (refrains) in Claude LeJeunes 1603 collection Le Printemps. Together with pieces from Le Printemps and the Six rondeaux for voice and viola by Jean Berger, the program illustrates the constant dialogue between "old" and "new" that has accompanied musical history throughout the centuries.

Concept and programming: Julie Comparini
With Julie Comparini (contralto), Yuko Hara (viola), Bernhard Reichel (lute)
Orchid Kammerchor
Conducted by: Keno Hankel

Sunday, September 22nd 2024, 7:00 pm
Klosterkirche Lilienthal
Klosterstraße 14, 28865 Lilienthal

Claude LeJeune (c.1528 - 1600): from Le Printemps (1603)
Jean Berger (1909-2002): Six rondeaux (1968)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Cinq rechants (1948)

Chants & Rechants is a new concert program that explores the influence of Renaissance music and texts on French composers of the 20th century. Its central work is the Cinq rechants by Olivier Messiaen, a work inspired by the structure of chants (verses) and rechants (refrains) in Claude LeJeunes 1603 collection Le Printemps. Together with pieces from Le Printemps and the Six rondeaux for voice and viola by Jean Berger, the program illustrates the constant dialogue between "old" and "new" that has accompanied musical history throughout the centuries.

Concept and programming: Julie Comparini
With Julie Comparini (contralto), Yuko Hara (viola), Bernhard Reichel (lute)
Orchid Kammerchor
Conducted by: Keno Hankel

Saturday, September 21st 2024, 8:00 pm
Probsteikirche St. Johann
Klosterkirchenstraße, 28195 Bremen

What are days for? To wake us up. To put between the endless nights. What are the nights for? To slip through time into another world.
-- Laurie Anderson

Under a waning half-moon and the watchful eyes of the river guards, six boats glide through twilight into darkness. Their illuminating lanterns cast shadows onto the water's surface and the reedy riverbanks; the night air is filled with the sweet sound of baroque music.

Every boat hosts a different ensemble. Together, they illustrate the musical depth and range of the European Baroque era. At certain points, they come to rest, inviting the audience to hear them up close. They can be heard from the riverbanks, the ports and locks or, in another boat, from on the river itself.

With the ensembles Arc of Iris, Los Temperamentos, Hanseatische Barockmusik, Concerto delle Donne (dir. by Julie Comparini), students of Prof. Hille Perl (Viola da gamba) at the Hochschule für Künste, music for historical brass ensemble and the "Stelzensippe" from the Kulturladen Huchting.
Concept and mise-en-scène: Peter Schenk

Saturday, September 14, 8:00 - 10:00 pm
Torfhafen Findorff, Bremen
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Locomotive Breath
Musical revue of workers' songs and work songs

Manja Stephan, Katy aus dem Spring, Julie Comparini, Evelyn Gramel, vocals
Erik Blumenthal, guitars
Matthias Entrup, drums
Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester
Directed by Peter Schenk
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Locomotive Breath
Musical revue of workers' songs and work songs

Manja Stephan, Katy aus dem Spring, Julie Comparini, Evelyn Gramel, vocals
Erik Blumenthal, guitars
Matthias Entrup, drums
Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester
Directed by Peter Schenk
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Come along on a musical bicycle tour that brings hidden gems of baroque music into the fresh air and pastoral landscapes of northern Bremen. Most of the mini-concerts are inside structures, so that the tour can be enjoyed by rain or shine. The journey ends with a concert in the "Wasserschloss", where drinks and refreshments will be available.

Featurung Arc of Iris, the Weckmann Consort, Vokalensemble Concerto delle Donne (dir. Julie Comparini), "Kafkas Schwester" (Diana Gaede) and Ireneusz Manuszewski (piano)
Concept and scenic direction: Peter Schenk

Sunday, September 1, starting at 3:00 pm at the Bremen-Burg train station
Online registration: MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Produced and supported by BIKE IT! Bremen
More information (in German) here

Founded by the Bremer Literaturkontor and the chamber music ensemble Konsonanz, LauschOrte is an immersive public project that illustrates places of historical interest in Bremen with music and literature by local writers and artists. Seventeen different locations in the city centre offer an opportunity to hear (via QR code) readings of texts underlaid with baroque, classical and rock music, jazz or electronic beats. Each text explores the historical significance of its associated building or monument, giving listeners a multi-faceted and contemporary experience of historal locations.

All seventeen texts can be heard in the original German or an English translation, professionally recorded by German- or English-speaking actors, and can be heard on the LauschOrte website as well as on location.

Julie Comparini reads the English version of Laura Müller-Hennig's text Bücherverbrennung (Book Burning) in the central Bremen public library and translated Antonia Bontscheva's text Berliner Mauerstück (A Piece of the Berlin Wall) into English.

The ten newest LauschOrt locations, including the public library, will be introduced to the public on June 25, 2024 at 2:00 pm in the Wallforum of the central public library in Bremen.

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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Come celebrate the official release of the CD Pone spes in planctu amaro with us!

Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 pm
bei Ruth Ahlers-Frick
Haus Hirschfeld
Adelenstraße 68
28239 Bremen, Germany

This is our way of saying thank you to the many people who have helped make this project possible, and an opportunity for everyone to enjoy a glass of champagne and an hors-d'oeuvre while getting to know the artists, the projects and Leonarda's wonderful music.

The CD will be available as of the beginning of March via the Bremen label arcantus, in stores near you as well as from all the usual digital download and streaming sites (and of course, at the launch party.)

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Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): The Lamentations of Jeremiah I (SATTB)
Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695): Terza Letione del Venerdi for contralto and B.c.
Spirituals and lamentations from Haiti and Südafrika

Soloists
Choir of the ev. Kirchengemeinde Cloppenburg
Conducted by Matthew Glandorf

Ev. Kirchengemeinde Cloppenburg
Ritterstraße 6a, 49661 Cloppenburg
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Emanuele d'Astorga (1680?-1757): Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Magnificat RV 611

Soloists
Chor Courage Berne
Conducted by Balkis Mele

St. Aegidius-Kirche zu Berne
Am Kirchhof 4, 27804 Berne
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Emanuele d'Astorga (1680?-1757): Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Magnificat RV 611

Soloists
Chor Courage Berne
Conducted by Balkis Mele

Thomaskirche Oldenburg (Kirchengemeinde Oferndiek)
Langenweg 165, 26125 Oldenburg
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Felix Mendelssohn-Batholdy: Lobgesang
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Maximilian Schmitt, tenor Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Felix Mendelssohn-Batholdy: Lobgesang
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Maximilian Schmitt, tenor Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
Bach cantata BWV 106 as part of church services

Soloists, Ensemble, Choir
Conducted by Matthew Glandorf
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Michael Porr (* 1967): Requiem
für solo soprano, solo alto, choir, strings and harp

Soloists
Capella vocalis, Ev. Trinitatisgemeinde Motet Choir
(dir: Ricarda Ochs)
Project Orchestra "Requiem 2023""
Conducted by Jürgen Marxmeier

Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Johannis Arbergen
Arberger Heerstr. 69, 28307 Bremen
Free admission
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Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes
Bach Cantata BWV 76
Concert for Reformation Day church services

Soloists
Kantorei St. Petri
Collegium Instrumentale St. Petri
Concertmaster: Paul Bialek
Conducted by Kantorin Karin Gastell
Admission 15.00 € / 10.00 €. Pre-orders 13.00 € / 8.00 €: Tel. 04488 5 56 60
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Pone spes in planctu amaro
Solo motets and violin sonatas by Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)

During her 68 years at the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, Isabella Leonarda composed more than two hundred published works in twenty published collections. Born into minor nobility in Novara in 1620, she entered the Ursuline convent at the age of sixteen, rising to the office of Madre superior in 1686 and Madre vicaria in 1693 before her death in 1704. She is considered one of the most productive female composers of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Her approximately 100 solo motets combine technical virtuosity with a highly personal expression of religious fervor. The texts are frequently non-liturgical, rich in imagery and assumed to be written by Leonarda herself. They offer a fascinating insight into both Leonarda’s own deep and personified beliefs and the larger theological context of a 17th-century nunnery.

In spite of their musical quality, most of Leonarda’s works have not be re-performed in modern times, and only a handful have been recorded or published in modern editions -- making several pieces in this concert modern premieres.

Julie Comparini, contralto
Wiebke Corßen, first violin
Julia Krikkay, second violin
Jenny Westman, viola da gamba
Susanne Peuker, theorbo
Tobias Gravenhorst, harpsichord
Klaus Westermann, organ

Tickets €14 - €28
Reserve tickets for pick-up before the concert: +49 (0)421 3300 5767
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Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures (1899)
Ailís Ní Ríain: Watershed (2020)
Jessica Brown: from And Say (2019)

For centuries, artists across all genres have been inspired by natural bodies of water. Elgar's Sea Pictures, published in 1899, reflect on human life on and around the sea, while the west Irish landscape around Lough Derg near Limerick inspired the poems in the 2019 collection And Say by contemporary writer Jessica Brown. In 2020, five of these poems were set to a new song cycle Watershed by the Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain in 2020 as part of an Irish Arts Council Commission Award for pianist Yonit Kosovske.

Julie Comparini, contralto
Yonit Kosovske, piano
Jessica Brown, readings

Thomastown Concert Hall
Marsh Street, Thomastown
Kilkenny, Ireland
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Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures (1899)
Ailís Ní Ríain: Watershed (2020)
Jessica Brown: from And Say (2019)

For centuries, artists across all genres have been inspired by natural bodies of water. Elgar's Sea Pictures, published in 1899, reflect on human life on and around the sea, while the west Irish landscape around Lough Derg near Limerick inspired the poems in the 2019 collection And Say by contemporary writer Jessica Brown. In 2020, five of these poems were set to a new song cycle Watershed by the Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain in 2020 as part of an Irish Arts Council Commission Award for pianist Yonit Kosovske.

Julie Comparini, contralto
Yonit Kosovske, piano
Jessica Brown, readings

Private house concert
By invitation only

J.S. Bach: Mass in G major
Georg Friederich Händel: Laudate Pueri Psalm 112
Melchior Hoffmann: Meine Seele rühmt und preist
Georg Philipp Telemann: Recorder concerto in A minor

Anna Terterjan, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Mirko Ludwig, tenor
Vokalesemble Harlingerland
Nordwestdeutsche Barockensemble
Conducted by Inka Drengemann-Steudtner
Eintritt 15,00 € / 12,00 €
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Guiseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Il trovatore
Musikfest Bremen

Ivan Magrì, Manrico
Olga Peretyatko, Leonora
Artur Rucinski, Graf Luna
Agnieszka Rehlis, Azucena
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Ferrando
Yu Shao, Ruiz
Sylvia d'Eramo, Ines
Musikfest Bremen Choir led by Detlef Bratschke
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor

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Auf Ein Wort

Bertolt Brecht was one of the most influential German poets and playwrights of the 20th century. Many of his texts question the role of the individual in society. What is a person worth? From what source do people draw their sense of self-worth? What happens in a society where people's worth goes unrecognized? Auf ein Wort* features song settings by Hanns Eisler and Paul Dessau on these and related themes.

For the Kulturvilla Mettmann's Sommerfest, Auf Ein Wort will be presented in shortened form (30 minutes) and in a duo formation.

Julie Comparini, voice
Felix Patzelt, guitar

Kulturvilla Mettmann
Beckershoffsraße 20
40822 Mettmann
Admission to the Sommerfest (11:00-21:00) € 5 pre-booked / € 7 at the door
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"Concert for Peace"
with Mozart's Requiem and other works

Soloists
StadtKantorei Rotenburg
l'arco Orchester Hannover
Conducted by Simon Schumacher

Tickets available at the Buchhandlung Müller in Rotenburg
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Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures (1899)
Ailís Ní Ríain: Watershed (2020)
Jessica Brown: from And Say (2019)

For centuries, artists across all genres have been inspired by natural bodies of water. Elgar's Sea Pictures, published in 1899, reflect on human life on and around the sea, while the west Irish landscape around Lough Derg near Limerick inspired the poems in the 2019 collection And Say by contemporary writer Jessica Brown. In 2020, five of these poems were set to a new song cycle Watershed by the Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain in 2020 as part of an Irish Arts Council Commission Award for pianist Yonit Kosovske.

Sea-Sounds presents both song cycles together with readings of texts from Watershed and Sea Pictures in translations by Schirin Nowrousian and Bertram Kottmann and illumination art by Bremen artist Sara Förster.

Stadtkirche Bremen-Vegesack
Kirchheide 10
28757 Bremen

Free admission
A production of the Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen as part of the LUX Festival

Julie Comparini, contralto
Yonit Kosovske, piano
Schirin Nowrousian, readings
Sara Förster, illumination art
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Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures (1899)
Ailís Ní Ríain: Watershed (2020)
Jessica Brown: from And Say (2019)

For centuries, artists across all genres have been inspired by natural bodies of water. Elgar's Sea Pictures, published in 1899, reflect on human life on and around the sea, while the west Irish landscape around Lough Derg near Limerick inspired the poems in the 2019 collection And Say by contemporary writer Jessica Brown. In 2020, five of these poems were set to a new song cycle Watershed by the Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain in 2020 as part of an Irish Arts Council Commission Award for pianist Yonit Kosovske.

Sea-Sounds presents both song cycles together with readings of texts from Watershed and Sea Pictures in translations by Schirin Nowrousian and Bertram Kottmann and illumination art by Bremen artist Sara Förster.

Julie Comparini, contralto
Yonit Kosovske, piano
Schirin Nowrousian, readings
Sara Förster, illumination art

Kulturkirche St. Stephani
Stephanikirchhof 8
28195 Bremen
Admission: 11 Euro / 8 Euro reduced / 6 Euro with a Bremen Pass
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Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 9, Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden
Easter Sunday services
Soloists, Bremer Domchor, Concerto Bremen
Stephan Leuthold, Organ
Henner Flügger, Pastor
Conducted by Tobias Gravenhorst
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Sacred songs and arias by J.S. Bach und Antonio Vivaldi
Julie Comparini, contralto
Johannes Hadem, organ
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Lenten concert with cantatas, arias and songs
by Max Reger(1873-1916) and Johann Sebatian Bach (1685-1750)\

Andreas Schneider, oboe
Carla Linné, violin
Hans Salger, viola
Nora Karakousoglu, violoncello
Tillmann Benfer, organ

Julie Comparini, contralto
Niels Kruse, tenor
Andreas Winterhalter, baritone
StadtKantorei Rotenburg
Conducted by Simon Schumacher

Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion
Soloists, Choir, Orchestra Concerto Bremen
Conducted by Andreas Winterhalter
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Workshop concert

In a month-long residency at the Fleetstreet Theater in Hamburg, the music-performance trio Marta Kowalczuk (composition), Lutz Rademacher (musical direction) and Hans-Jörg Kapp (scenic direction) has explored the possibilities of baroque gesture in a modern, affect- and performance-driven context.

Arias, duet and scenes by G.F. Händel und Antonio Vivaldi
from Alcina, Hercules, Orlando and Griselda

Kerstin Dietl, soprano
Julie Comparini, contralto
Jürgen Groß, violin
Lutz Rademacher, continuo
Hans-Jörg Kapp, scenic direction
Soetkin Elbers, baroque gesture instruction

Fleetstreet Theater, Admiralitätsstrasse 71, 20459 Hamburg
Admission: € 5,-
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Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 144, Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin
Music for the Estomihi church service
Soloists, vocal ensemble and orchestra "Laudate-Cantate"
Conducted by Ulrich Kaiser
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