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Lux aeterna

S Styriarte

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Light also needs shadow, and so the masterful Der Arnold Schönberg Chor singt bei der Styriarte. Arnold Schoenberg Chor fills the parish church of Pöllau with some of the most moving choral works of both worlds: music by Brahms, Schumann, Ligeti, Pärt and others.

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the eternal question of “why”

Brahms described his greatest motet as a “necessary shadow” on his bright-as-day Second Symphony, which asks the eternal question of “why”: why do we humans have to endure so much suffering under the light of the sun? The Arnold Schoenberg Choir provides the answer in the unearthly, luminous choral music of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Ligeti and Pärt, in the surroundings of the most beautiful church interior of the Styrian Baroque.

Programme

Johannes Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?
Felix Mendelssohn: Warum lässest du deinen Diener ǀ Richte mich Gott
Robert Schumann: Four double choir songs, op. 141
György Ligeti: Lux aeterna
Arvo Pärt: Morning Star
Organ improvisations

Duration: about 70 minutes without an interval

Tickets

Prices: EUR 26 / 52 / 78

Reductions:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50 % reduction
Ö1 Club & Standard Abo: 10 % reduction

Service-Infos

Blick in den Gang eines Busses mit Passagieren. Sonnenlicht flutet durch die Fenster.

Coach transfer

We offer a coach transfer to our concert in Pöllau.
Departure at 05.45 pm in front of the opera house (Franz-Graf-Allee).

Coach tickets are available in advance only.

Price EUR 23. Return journey after the concert.

Please make a reservation in our ticket office or in our online shop.

Cast

© Werner Kmetitsch
Choir

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

The differentiation and plasticity with which Erwin Ortner's hand-picked ensemble of voices realises choral works from all epochs is unrivalled. The Arnold Schoenberg Choir, founded in 1972 and a regular guest at the Styriarte festival for decades, has won countless prizes - including the Grammy in 2002 for a St Matthew Passion under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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Direction

Erwin Ortner

The doyen of Austrian choral music has been closely associated with the Styriarte festival for decades - also thanks to the congenial, "Grammy"- and "Echo"-award-winning collaboration of his Arnold Schoenberg Choir with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Erwin Ortner is also Hofkapellmeister in Vienna and was the rector of the Vienna University of Music for many years.

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