As of: January 31, 2024, 5:00 p.m
By: Richard Lorenz
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With every tone and sound you could feel the heart and soul that the Asamchor had put into this project.
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The Asamchor Freising is a guarantee for concerts at the highest level.
What he achieved with “Saul” can be described as a bravura piece.
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– With the performance of the oratorio “Saul” by George Frideric Handel in the English original, the Asamchor paid an extremely touching and skilful tribute to one of the most important baroque works, thereby delighting the audience in the auditorium of the Camerloher-Gymnasium.
Or to put it another way: With this concert, the cathedral city was able to get a taste of world-class performance.
Enthusiastic audience
That was a tremendous sight: the Asam choir on the stage, while in front of the stage the virtuoso ensemble “L'Arpa festante” captivated the audience on one side and the soloists on the other side caused great amazement.
Of course, the oratorio cast its shadow far ahead, as Handel's “Saul” is not performed very often - and certainly not with such a grandiose cast.
So it was no wonder that around 600 baroque music fans came to Camerloher so as not to miss this major cultural event.
“Saul” was brought to the stage by musical director Prof. Thomas Gropper and the Asamchor in a visually powerful and at the same time careful manner.
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Great achievement
And they weren't disappointed for a second, because it was clear from the opening sounds: they hadn't heard anything like that in Freising for a long time.
The Old Testament episode about the fall of King Saul and the ascension of David, which was once described in a powerful visual way by Handel, was brought to the stage in the Camerloher-Gymnasium in an equally powerful and at the same time very careful manner by the musical director Prof. Thomas Gropper - with everyone You could feel the heart and soul that the Asamchor put into this project in every tone and every sound.
The soloists Micha Matthäus as Saul, Christian Rathgeber as Jonathan, Regine Jurda as David, Claudia Reinhard as Merab, Isabella Gantner as Michal, Johannes Ganser as the witch and narrator and Thomas Gropper as the ghost of Samuel.
High level of singing
The incredibly high level of the choir ensemble was particularly evident in the dialogue between the soloists and the choir, which expressed Handel's dream journeys powerfully and delicately in equal measure - always perfectly tempered, always precise and therefore a great choir that rightly has "Asam" in its name carries.
The musical fireworks were provided by the renowned ensemble L'Arpa Festante, which lifted the three acts to the heavens in terms of sound and thus touched the guests' hearts and souls.
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Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher was very enthusiastic when the FT interviewed him during the break: “I can only say one thing: impressive.”
District Administrator Helmut Petz also praised the evening highly: “This is a cultural event today – the performance is incredibly strong!” “The voices are amazing, what a concert,” was Dr.
Heino break.
And that was also noticeable: the average age of the audience was mixed, with the youngest listeners coming along in their parents' arms.
Evening full of light
The choir had been preparing for this evening for over seven months under the sensitive rehearsal of Thomas Gropper.
The result: an evening full of light and glowing heartfelt moments, which culminated in the famous funeral march.
This concert will be talked about for a long time, that much is certain, because the listeners were delighted at the break and at the end inspired by the musical force that Handel had once created, but which was brilliantly implemented by the Freisinger Asamchor.