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The Weilheim choir group will sing Edward Elgar's "From the Bavarian Highlands" as well as Bavarian songs (together with the "Gögerlgeigers") in the "Bavaria" program on April 27th and 28th in the city theater. © Choir Circle
Music lovers in Weilheim can look forward to concerts full of discoveries: the choir of the Apostle Church will let you hear pure Easter joy on April 14th - and the choir group will sing about it on April 27th/28th. April “Bavaria”.
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– The famous passions from his pen are part of the standard program at this time of year. However, the Easter Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed much more rarely: It is therefore almost a rarity to discover the Baroque master when the choir of the Weilheim Apostle Church performs it on Sunday, April 14th, 7 p.m., with an orchestra and well-known soloists oratorio with the title “Come, hurry and run” – with free admission, by the way.
This work by Johann Sebastian Bach is a rarity
At around 45 minutes long, it is Bach's shortest oratorio, but "does not miss any of his musical mastery," says conductor Gundula Kretschmar. In a festive line-up of strings, three trumpets, timpani, oboes, bassoon and flutes, the lively choral movements are juxtaposed with various instrumental solos and artistic arias from the vocal soloists. The latter are consistently renowned and well-known in the region: Beate Kiechle (soprano), Andrea Fessmann (alto), Klaus Steppberger (tenor) and Prof. Thomas Gropper (bass).
The choir of the Apostle Church Weilheim (here at the rehearsal with director Gundula Kretschmar) will perform, among other things, Bach's Easter Oratorio on Sunday, April 14th. © Ralf Ruder
The joy of Easter - which lasts until Pentecost - can also be heard at this concert in choral movements from Arnold Brunckhorst's Easter story as well as two double-choral motets by Jakobus Gallus and Johann Eccard.
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The Weilheim choir group, led by Elisabeth Reitzer, will bring completely different, no less impressive sounds to the city theater at two concerts at the end of April: Edward Elgar's song cycle "From the Bavarian Highlands" can be heard under the title "Bavaria", as well as Bavarian songs and dance music - supported by Florian Appel on the piano and the “Gögerl violinists”.
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The Briton Elgar, best known for his marches “Pomp and Circumstance”, spent several summer holidays in Bavaria at the end of the 19th century, especially in Oberstdorf and Garmisch. The Alpine landscape and Bavaria's culture inspired him and his wife Alice (she wrote the verses) to write six choral songs that are related to local locations such as the Wamberg or Murnau. Alpine songs can be heard, which the choir group and the “Gögerlgeiger” complement with originals from the region.
The concerts
of the Weilheimer Chorkreis begin on Saturday, April 27th, at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, April 28th, at 4 p.m. in the city theater. Tickets are available from April 8th at the Musikhaus Wiedemann in Weilheim.
There is free admission to the “Easter Oratorio” on Sunday, April 14th, 7 p.m., in the Protestant Apostle Church in Weilheim (donations requested).
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