Helsinki Chamber Choir / Helsingin kamarikuoro
Nils Schweckendiek, conductor
Ensemble Recherche
Acht Brücken Festival, Köln:
Saturday May 17th | 17:00
WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
Free entry
Works by L. Wennäkoski, M. Bång, P. Haapanen, F. Bedrossian and V. Žuraj / H. Klaus
Innen by Vito Žuraj / Händl Klaus (2024) is commissioned by Helsingin Kamarikuoro, Beethoven Jubiläums-Gesellschaft and ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
German premiere
Light and shadow play an important role in Scandinavia. Anyone who has ever celebrated Midsummer knows about the life-giving, body and soul-warming power of the sun, which is eagerly awaited by the population after the depriving winter months. In “Faces and Moon Splinters”, Malin Bång uses an essential property of light: speed. In Bedrossian’s “We Met as Sparks”, light also forms the starting point for a musical spark that gradually ignites. The Slovenian composer Vito Žuraj, who returns to the cathedral city in 2025 with a vocal-instrumental piece based on texts by Händl Klaus, is now also well known in Cologne. “I close my eyes, I see the night.” This is how the third part of the libretto begins, wonderfully unveiling the essence of the text. The Scandinavian focus is completed by choral music by Lotta Wennäkoski and Perttu Haapanen, who are among the figureheads of the Helsinki Chamber Choir’s repertoire and whose music has never before been heard at Acht Brücken.
Maarit Kytöharju
The concert will be recorded for radio by WDR and can be heard on the radio on September 23, 2025 and afterwards for 30 days on wdr3.de
More information: https://www.achtbruecken.de/en/programm/mittsommer/467
The same concert will also be performed at Paulussaal in Freiburg:
Sunday May 18th at 20:00
https://www.ensemble-recherche.de/event/abo-4-innen?lang=en
Tickets available at reservix.de, at Badische Zeitung Ticketservice and at the box office.
Promoted by Kulturamt Freiburg
A cooperation between Ensemble Recherche and the Freunde of the Ensemble Recherche e.V.