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Multiple Voices

S Styriarte

40 voices. 8 choirs. 2 singers.

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Countertenor Porträt von Terry Wey, Countertenor, bei Styriarte, aufgenommen von Theresa Pewal. Terry Wey, bass Ulfried Staber and sound engineer Markus Wallner build a monumental vocal edifice out of Thomas Tallis' forty-part motet 'Spem in alium' in the Detail der Fassade der Grazer Stadtpfarrkirche, ein Wahrzeichen der Styriarte, mit Statuen und barocker Architektur. Mausoleum.

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40 Stimmen – 8 Chöre – 2 Sänger

Those who are familiar with Fifty Shades of Grey know about Christian Grey’s “playroom” and the background music for the scenes from the novel. The book, which came out in 2012, created more than half a million fans for a Renaissance motet, Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis, the surging tones of which stir the erotic fantasies of more than just the hero of the novel. This ne plus ultra of spatial sound is normally performed with 40 singers - at the Mausoleum in Graz, however, with two voices only: countertenor Terry Wey and bass Ulfried Staber. The performance lasts for eight hours. Sound engineer Markus Wallner creates a multiple voice effect which resonates throughout the hall.

Programm

Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium (um 1570)

Duration: 8 hours

Tickets

Price: EUR 48

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

Cast

© Theresa Pewal
Countertenor

Terry Wey

He is regarded as a beacon of his guild and an expert in baroque music. The Swiss soprano developed his natural charisma as a soloist with the Vienna Boys' Choir and offered it for the first time at the Styriarte in 2014 in Purcell's ‘The Fairy Queen’. Four years later, Terry Wey was the first countertenor ever to sing at the Bayreuth Festival in Klaus Lang's ‘verschwundene hochzeiter’.

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© Theresa Pewal
Bass

Ulfried Staber

The Fohnsdorf-born bass discovered his voice as an all-encompassing instrument as a student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Today, Ulfried Staber interprets 500-year-old music from the imperial courts of Austria with the renowned, multinational vocal ensemble ‘Cinquecento’ and, together with Terry Wey, builds visionary bridges between old and new music.

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Sound engineer

Markus Wallner

The trained sound engineer enriches jazz, pop, contemporary and classical music with all the magic of the art of sound. Prizes are raining down for this: the German Record Critics' Award, for example, for recordings with Klangforum Wien and the jazz band Shake Stew. The creative sound designer works directly and live at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival or the Styriarte.

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