At the Buchendorf Advent Concert, youth music award winners interpret Vivaldi's "Four Seasons".
Buchendorf – The ecumenical Buchendorf Advent concerts under the direction of the long-standing Munich Philharmonic and talent promoter Heinrich Klug are no longer an insider tip.
On Sunday they were heard for the 49th time in St. Michael's Church.
Jugend-musiziert prizewinners such as Mariclara Neudauer from Gauting or the brothers Anton, Konrad and Viktor Gmelin from Stockdorf made what is probably Antonio Vivaldi's most famous composition shine richly.
Today's world-class violinist Julia Fischer and her colleague Lena Neudauer from Gauting once played under the direction of Heinrich Klug in the magnificently designed church with the Rococo Archangel St. Michael by Johann Baptist Straub.
In the heated, almost full church, the second generation of musicians was already enthusiastic on Sunday evening.
At the beginning, the "Spring", the Gautinger Jugend-musiziert award winner Mariclara Neudauer, the daughter of the violin professor Lena Neudauer, offered a flawlessly played solo on her double bass.
Konrad Gmelin from Stockdorf interpreted the "Dance of the Shepherds and Nymphs" on the solo violin at high speed and full of joy.
The audience was so entranced that they applauded between movements.
Professionally reinforced by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Manuel von der Nehmer (cello) and Wolfgang Berg (viola) as well as Heinrich Klug on the harpsichord, the string ensemble of the Jugend-musiziert prize-winners also intoned the “Summer” with virtuosity.
Prizewinner Nicole Ostmann played the violin solos like the "Peasant's Lament" between the dramatically rushing sounds of the thunderstorm with energetic strokes.
“Autumn” began with the harvest dance – and the stumbling drunk, as Heinrich Klug explained.
This time the first violin was played by the youth music award winner Anton Carus.
To the harpsichord, the strings intoned the beautiful "Dream." But the dream, played on a gentle piano, flows into the rhythmic dance with the hunt and "dead animal".
The audience thanked them for a first-class benefit concert with applause and bravos
At the start of winter, Klug explained: "In Vivaldi's day, grandmother would sit in the warm living room and tell stories by candlelight." Anton Carus then played "Persistent showers in the icy snow" on his violin, and the tremolos of the strings touched the listener.
After the effective setting of “Walking on the Ice”, Vivaldi's concerto ends with a comforting Allegro movement.
"After all, winter with ice dancers also brings joy," says Klug.
The audience thanked them for a first-class benefit concert with applause and bravos.
The last movement from Antonin Dvorák's American String Quartet in F major followed as a surprising encore, played with a palpable joy of playing: Anton Carus and the Stockdorfer siblings Anton, Konrad and Viktor Gmelin played rousingly.
And the audience thanked them with a 1,000 euro donation in favor of the new "Helping Hands" support center for 74 children and young people with multiple disabilities in the west of Munich.
