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Das Feuer der Musen

S Styriarte
Ein Musiker spielt während des Styriarte Festivals ein Streichinstrument, begleitet von zwei weiteren Musikern im Hintergrund.

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Jordi Savall, ein Gambist, spielt auf einer Viola da Gamba bei der Styriarte. Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI bei Styriarte, klassisches Konzert mit historischer Musik auf der Bühne. Hespèrion XXI will devote themselves to the Elizabethan consort songs of William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and others, with six gambas and two voices.

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When queens die:

When Queen Elizabeth I went to meet her maker in 1603, the art of the consort song died with her. To fan the flame of the Muses, the Tudors needed only five violas da gamba and one voice. The way sparks fly when Jordi Savall and his viola da gamba consort play this music is something that can only be experienced here. Helmut List Halle is transformed into a Tudor country house, where melancholy and joy, songs of anguish and lively dances follow one form the other.

Programme

Elizabethan Consort Music (1533–1603)  
by Christopher Tye, William Byrd (Ye sacred Muses), Anthony Holborne (The teares of the Muses), John Dowland (Pavan Semper Dowland semper dolens, The King of Denmark’s Galliard, Now, O now, I needs must part), Orlando Gibbons, Richard Nicholson (Joan, quoth John) a. o.

Duration: around 70 minutes without intermission

Tickets

Prices: EUR 36 / 72 / 108

Reductions:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50 % reduction

Cast

© Elisenda Canals
Soprano

Elionor Martínez

Trained in her hometown of Barcelona and with Marcel Boone at the University of Music in Basel, the young soprano has shone as a soloist in Handel's Messiah and Bach's Magnificat, among other works, as well as on the opera stage in Mozart's Così fan tutte. Elionor Martínez also works regularly with La Capella Reial de Catalunya under the direction of grand master Jordi Savall.

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© Amandine Lauriol
Countertenor

William Shelton

The French countertenor began his musical training at the age of eight and later studied singing, horn, organ, music theory, chamber music and orchestra. In addition to this comprehensive education and an international career as a singer, the child prodigy also holds degrees in physics and chemistry.

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© Werner Kmetitsch
Ensemble

Hespèrion XXI

The Early Music Ensemble is committed to the original spirit of its repertoire, which consists of works from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, and offers its audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves in the aesthetic delicacy of the time by using period instruments.

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© Werner Kmetitsch
Viola da Gamba & Conductor

Jordi Savall

There is no early music fan who does not know the name Jordi Savall. There is no award that the "Ambassador of the European Union for Cultural Dialogue" has not won in the course of his world career. So it is all the more enjoyable that the Catalan, born in 1941, has been one of the Styriarte's closest and most loyal friends for decades.

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