Choir professor Erwin Ortner gets the
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
and us all in the mood for German folk songs as performed by Brahms, Schubert and others.
Content
folk songs to sing along
Up on the alm and down in the valley, living spaces become sound spaces, as we see in numerous folk songs from Austria, Germany and Switzerland: the people sweetened their hard life in the countryside with songs and texts. Ever since its legendary recording of Brahms’s folk songs, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir has soothed souls with authentic renditions of folk song. Erwin Ortner invites the audience to sing along with selected songs.
Programme
German folk songs in the version by Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert and others.
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.
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.
