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Walpurgisnacht
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Following the overwhelming success of "Carmina Burana" in November 2023, the vokal:orgel association invites you to another semi-staged concert format with "Walpurgisnacht", in which 150 young singers perform together with the magnificent concert organ in the Stadtcasino Basel. This concert takes place in the middle of Basel's pre-Carnival season and presents a special work by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, which tells of the wild events of Walpurgisnacht - a festival that dates back to pre-Christian spring celebrations.
The work will be arranged especially for this program for organ, piano and percussion. You can look forward to a musical experience that explores the themes of spring, dance, ecstasy, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. You can expect impressive works for unaccompanied choir by Gunnar Hahn, Edvard Grieg, Per Anders Hillborg and Veljo Tormis, which also take up these themes. Another highlight is Thierry Escaich's "Evocation 2" for solo organ - a musical journey that leads through diverse worlds of sound and culminates in a powerful "passage into the light". The project involves the Basel Young Chamber Choir, the choirs of the Muttenz and Laufen secondary schools and the Steinerschule Birseck, the Basel Young Opera, Babette Mondry (organ), Dominic Chamot (piano), Salomé im Hof (director) and Abélia Nordmann (musical director).
Works by Mendelssohn, Grieg, Tormis, Escaich and others.
Participants: Artists Junger Kammerchor Basel, choirs from Muttenz and Laufen high schools and the Steinerschule Birseck, Junge Oper Basel, Sari Leijendekker: alto, Rodrigo Carreto: tenor, Julian Schmidlin: tenor, Felix Gygli: baritone, David McCune: bass, Babette Mondry: Organ, Dominic Chamot: Piano, Tomohiro lino, Pablo Mena Escudero and Yi Chen Tsai: Percussion, Salomé im Hof: Stage direction, Ibra Ndiaye: Choreography, Abélia Nordmann: Musical direction, Babette Mondry and Tobias Stückelberger: Artistic direction
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The work will be arranged especially for this program for organ, piano and percussion. You can look forward to a musical experience that explores the themes of spring, dance, ecstasy, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. You can expect impressive works for unaccompanied choir by Gunnar Hahn, Edvard Grieg, Per Anders Hillborg and Veljo Tormis, which also take up these themes. Another highlight is Thierry Escaich's "Evocation 2" for solo organ - a musical journey that leads through diverse worlds of sound and culminates in a powerful "passage into the light". The project involves the Basel Young Chamber Choir, the choirs of the Muttenz and Laufen secondary schools and the Steinerschule Birseck, the Basel Young Opera, Babette Mondry (organ), Dominic Chamot (piano), Salomé im Hof (director) and Abélia Nordmann (musical director).
Works by Mendelssohn, Grieg, Tormis, Escaich and others.
Participants: Artists Junger Kammerchor Basel, choirs from Muttenz and Laufen high schools and the Steinerschule Birseck, Junge Oper Basel, Sari Leijendekker: alto, Rodrigo Carreto: tenor, Julian Schmidlin: tenor, Felix Gygli: baritone, David McCune: bass, Babette Mondry: Organ, Dominic Chamot: Piano, Tomohiro lino, Pablo Mena Escudero and Yi Chen Tsai: Percussion, Salomé im Hof: Stage direction, Ibra Ndiaye: Choreography, Abélia Nordmann: Musical direction, Babette Mondry and Tobias Stückelberger: Artistic direction
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.