Den 750. NoonSong feiern wir mit der wunderbaren "Vesperae solennes de confessore" von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart für Soli, Chor und Orchester. Am bekanntesten ist daraus das bezaubernde "Laudate Dominum", eine schwebende Sopran-Arie im 6/8-Takt, begleitet von Streichern und Chor.
Palestrina forever - on the 500th birthday of the legendary composer Palestrina was and still is a style-setter today. Anyone studying composition must be familiar with his principles, which shaped Catholic church music for five centuries. Palestrina created balanced, enraptured, serene works, perfectly balanced between text comprehensibility and artistic polyphony. The almost 2,700-year-old texts in […]
At the beginning of Holy Week, the NoonSong before Palm Sunday, the NoonSong is particularly festive. In 1986, the Norwegian composer Knut Nystedt wrote "Stabat Mater" for mixed choir and solo cello, a touching and haunting work, half cello concerto, half choral concerto. It is accompanied by the famous Miserere by the Venetian composer Antonio Lotti (1666-1740), who introduced Italian opera to the Dresden court with overwhelming success. His later sacred compositions are correspondingly dramatic.
