PROGRAMME

MacMillan, James:
«They saw the stone had been rolled away» Fanfare für Bläser und Percussion

Haydn, Joseph:
«Die Schöpfung» Oratorium für Soli, Chor und Orchester Hob. XXI:2

(Programme is subject to change)

ABOUT THE EVENT

An outstanding vocal line-up, featuring Mojca Erdmann, Ian Bostridge, Gerald Finley and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, promise an evening of festive glory under the direction of Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
     
The choir’s words «Und es ward Licht» announce the beginning of Creation, so masterly set to music by Joseph Haydn. Before the great oratorio, a fanfare by 2012’s composer in residence James MacMillan will sound at the opening of the Music Festival. Both works translate spiritual content into music.

There’s a special feeling in the air when you step through the gates of Grafenegg to plunge into the open atmosphere of this Music Festival. Here is a fascinating combination of past and future, tangible in the contrast between the old castle and the modern open-air stage, Wolkenturm. On mild summer evenings, performances are in the open; in poor weather, the Auditorium opens its doors.

Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, choir
Erwin Ortner, choir master
Mojca Erdmann, soprano
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Gerald Finley, bass
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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Artists of Opening Concert: Music Festival Grafenegg

Erdmann, Mojca

, Soloist
sopran

Bostridge, Ian

, Soloist
Ian Bostridge was a post-doctoral fellow in history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, before embarking on a full-time career as a singer. His international recital career includes the world’s major concert halls and the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh and Schubertiade Festivals. In 1999 he premiered a song-cycle written for him by Hans Werner Henze. In 2003/04 he held artistic residencies at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, in 2004/2005 he shared a Carte-Blanche series with Thomas Quasthoff at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and in 2005/2006 he had his own Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall.

Finley, Gerald

, Soloist

Orozco-Estrada, Andrés

, Conductor
Andrés Orozco-Estrada was born in 1977 in Medellin (Columbia). At the age of five he started to play the violin, at the age of 15 he conducted the orchestra of his Music High school. In 1992 he started to study conducting. From 1997 to 2003 he persued his conducting studies in the master class of Uros Lajovic at the Vienna Music Academy.

From 2001 to 2004 Andrés Orozco-Estrada was elected Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna's Technical University. During these years he conducted a wide range of symphonic and opera programmes, including concert and staged performances of Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute and Don Carlo.

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

, Orchestra

Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich

, Orchestra
The Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich is an Austrian orchestra based in Vienna and St. Pölten, Lower Austria.