As of: March 12, 2024, 6:02 p.m
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Introducing the concerts in the “Music in the Pfaffenwinkel” series: (from left) the artistic director Christian Fröhlich, the club chairwoman Andrea Kreipe and choir speaker Karl-Josef Fischer.
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The “Music in Pfaffenwinkel” concert series has existed for 35 years.
Behind it is the association of the same name, without whose commitment the series would not be possible.
Wies - Andrea Kreipe, the chairwoman of the association, came to Wies on this March day together with Christian Fröhlich, the artistic director, and Karl-Josef Fischer, the choir speaker, to present the concerts of 2024.
“It was supposed to be an ambitious program for the 35th anniversary,” says Kreipe.
Basically, the program planning is such that the choir singers can contribute ideas.
They are viewed at a meeting between the eight-member board and interested singers with the conductor.
“It is a democratic process, the board also has to keep an eye on financial viability,” explains the chairwoman.
“Music in the Pfaffenwinkel”: Ambitious program presented for the 35th anniversary of the concert series
But the directive authority obviously lies with Fröhlich as the artistic director.
“Program design has always been an important topic for me,” he emphasizes.
For the first concert on Sunday, June 30, he combined Schubert's “Symphony in B Minor,” better known as the “Unfinished,” with Bruckner's “F Minor Mass.”
“For me, these two are spiritually and even spiritually related,” explains Fröhlich.
Both were misunderstood during their lifetime.
For a long time, Schubert was unfairly regarded as just the “funny wandering bird”, and Bruckner's works are rarely performed to this day because of their immense complexity.
The second concert on Sunday, July 28th, on the other hand, focuses on universally popular works: Beethoven's “Pastorale” and Mozart's “Violin Concerto KV 216”: “It was the audience's wish to involve the choir more,” explains Fröhlich.
And Kreipe adds: “As we singers wish!”
The third concert takes place with chamber music in the basilica in Altenstadt
So the conductor chose two short choral works, a youthful work by Mozart and Mendelssohn's “Give Us Peace”.
Kreipe adds that this message was deliberately chosen given the current situation.
The third concert will take place in the Altenstadt Basilica on Saturday, September 21st: “In addition to the Wieskirche, we want to play another concert venue from the region,” explains choir speaker Fischer.
“We have been to Polling or Benediktbeuern several times and are now in Altenstadt for the first time.”
Due to the spatial conditions, large choral and orchestral works cannot be performed there, but chamber music can be performed.
Michael Kofler, principal flutist of the Munich Philharmonic, who has appeared repeatedly as a soloist in the series, will present European compositions from four centuries with his wife Regine on the harp.
A kind of conversation concert is planned to explain the rare repertoire a little.
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The fourth concert on Saturday, October 26th has a special feature: Mendelssohn's “Lobgesang” and Bach's “Orchestra Suite No. 3” will be accompanied by a world premiere, namely Wulfin Lieske's “Himmelskanon” for guitar, timpani and strings.
“New music” has always been close to his heart, emphasizes Fröhlich.
And so the series can now present its third premiere with this work.
“We are committed to incorporating contemporary music from time to time in order to influence listening habits on the board,” emphasizes Kreipe.
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Fröhlich became aware of Lieske at a concert in Cologne and asked if he would like to write a commissioned work for “Music in the Pfaffenwinkel”.
The composer was inspired to create his work by Goethe's poem about the gingko tree.
The guitar stands for the individual and human, while the strings embody the eternal and cosmic.
In the end, both worlds find harmonious unity.
And at the end of the concert series there is traditionally the equally harmonious Advent singing on Saturday and Sunday, December 7th and 8th: for this Fischer enlists the vocal and instrumental ensembles from the region.
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