As of: February 1, 2024, 8:59 p.m
By: Magnus Reitinger
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Flamenco can also be found in the program of the “Rural Concerts” 2024: Ricardo Volkert & Ensemble will celebrate “Feliz Navidad” in Penzberg on November 17th with several dancers.
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From an intimate piano solo to a large oratorio with 120 singers and instrumentalists: the “Penzberg Rural Concerts” offer seven high-class events this year.
And it's not just classical music on the program.
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– With its 33-year history and well over 300 events during this time, the “Penzberg Rural Concerts” are one of the largest concert series in the region.
And “big” applies here in many ways.
There are regularly around 120 singers and instrumentalists on stage when the Penzberg Vocal Ensemble and the Pfaffenwinkel Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Günther Pfannkuch, perform large-scale works of music history.
The requiem that touched everyone at the memorial service for Princess Diana
This year the two ensembles can be seen together twice again: on March 17th in the parish church of Christ the King they will present the Requiem, which the British composer John Rutter wrote in 1985 and which, as Pfannkuch knows, “touches the listener with its beauty and intensity.” – this was also the case at the performance on the occasion of the funeral service for Princess Diana in 1997. And at Christmas time, “The Messiah”, Georg Friedrich Handel’s expressive and diverse oratorio about life, is on the program at the “Rural Concerts” on December 8th Jesus.
For many it is one of the greatest works in music history.
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Huge program on the village stage in Pfaffenwinkel
Impressive ensemble: the Penzberg vocal ensemble and the symphony orchestra in Pfaffenwinkel under the direction of Günther Pfannkuch - here in 2023 in the Schlehdorf monastery church.
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The Pfaffenwinkel Symphony Orchestra will also be giving its own symphony concert on July 14th with works by Mozart and Beethoven.
And on April 20th, the ensemble “Les Chantres de Saint-Hilaire” from Penzberg’s French twin town Langon will take you right into the Baroque period.
The music of the 16 singers and musicians on original baroque instruments is accompanied in the town hall by a scenic design by the Berlin director Astrid Vehstedt.
Percussion evening with the “Eight-Armed”
By the way, the professional musicians from Langon gave an acclaimed guest performance in Penzberg in 2022.
And the pianist who opens the series of “Rural Concerts 2024” has already impressed several times here: Aglaya Zinchenko dedicates her solo program on Sunday, February 25th, 7 p.m., in the Metropol to Franz Schubert as “composer and person”: “In an exciting "A mixture of often and rarely played pieces, youth and late works and a personal moderation makes the person visible behind his established image," says the announcement.
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And then there are two concerts with a lot of fuss and completely different timbres: “The eight-armed ones – pure percussion” is the motto with the “Percussion Ensemble Munich” on October 13th in the Stadthalle.
And on November 17th it will be “Feliz Navidad” at the Andalusian Christmas with Ricardo Volkert’s flamenco ensemble – which also includes three dancers.
further information
for the program and advance ticket sales: www.musikfreunde-penzberg.de