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Thursday, 27th of September 2007 at 7.30, Union Hall Maribor

Festival Closing Concert

 

CAMERATA BERN

ERICH HÖBARTH artistic leader

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER – mezzosoprano

 

 

Programme:

Franz Joseph Haydn: Divertimento in E flat Major, Hob. II No. 6

Ottorino Respighi: Il Tramonto

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Franz SchuberT

Five selected songs

– Du bist die Ruh

– Rastlose Liebe

– Geheimes

– Heidenröschen

– Ganymed

Antonin Dvoøák: Serenade for Strings in E-Major Op. 22

 

Angelika Kirchschlager is said to have become an opera diva by coincidence. The world renowned mezzo-soprano and a regular guest of all most prominent opera stages around the globe initially studied piano, although piano had never really fully fascinated her and finally she gave up her further studies in piano. She knew that she wished to deal with music and to become either a music journalist or a critic. When she was 18, she took part with neither any particular ambitions nor formally educated voice in an audition at the Vienna Music Academy. “I sang a Schumann’s song. I was wearing a green pullover. I was singing about green grass. It was a pure coincidence I was accepted. Six members of the commission voted against and seven in favour.” All opera lovers can be grateful today that her life took her into that direction. Professor Erhard Kahry was supposed to make her a singer and she called Professor Walter Berry her mentor. Her first appearance in 1993 in Graz caused a real sensation in the media and in public. She sang an exceptionally difficult role for a mezzo-soprano: the young Octavian in Strauss’s The Cavalier of the Rose. She became member of the Vienna State Opera the same year. With her voice and slender figure she had quickly identified herself with the roles originally written for castrates which she performed really brilliantly (Mozart’s Cherubino, Schumann’s Composer from Ariadne auf Naxos). “Such roles were not my choice even though it’s true that I mostly prefer male roles. /… / When I play a man I feel I am in the right direction”, she told in one of her interviews. She has sung a whole array of other roles, naturally including female ones about which she says they do not pose such a challenge to her. The mezzo-soprano will be accompanied by Camerata Bern. The orchestra has developed during its over 40 years of existence into a highly acclaimed chamber orchestra made up of 14 musicians inspired by the idea of playing within a small flexible ensemble without a conductor. All the members are also soloists, participating in other chamber ensembles. The ensemble has performed on many world tours and issued a number of CDs. Under the artistic directorship of Erich Höbarth, born in Vienna, Camerata Bern offers a wide repertoire of music, ranging from the early Baroque to the more contemporary music. Their performances are characterized by a sharp and completely homogenous sound and their style is fresh and exceptionally self confident.

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