The joint concert of the Austrian Hard-chór and the Czech Kühn Mixed Choir will take place symbolically in the church at Svatý Kamen in the former Sudetenland. The works of the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner will be performed, as it is 200 years since the birth of both composers. They will be complemented by works by the jubilant Arnold Schönberg and, in the spirit of the upcoming Year of Czech Music, by other Czech composers.
The accompanying program will include an exhibition on site in cooperation with the South Bohemian Memory of the Nation and bilingual guided tours about the history of the area and the fate of its inhabitants.
Artists
Hard-chór (AT)
Alexander Koller – choirmaster
Kühn Mixed Choir (CZ)
Igor Karpilovskij – choirmaster
Program
Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria, Pange Lingua, Christus factus est, Virga Jesse,
Os justi, Vexilla regis
Arnold Schoenberg: Friede auf Erde
Leoš Janáček – Kačena divoká
Petr Eben – selection from the cycle Love and Death: Pod zeleným dubem, Slunečko zachodí, Stálá láska
Bedřich Smetana – Three Women’s Choirs to words by J. V. Sládek
Antonín Tučapský – Five Lenten motets (Tristis est anima mea, Pater mi, Filiae Jerusalem, Eli, eli, Pater meus)
Anton Bruckner: Locus iste Resound (arr. Alex Koller) – common song
Bedřich Smetana: common song to be specified