Programme

An oratorio of three world religions based on “Israel in Egypt” (1738), composed by George Frideric Handel, interwoven with Jewish and Muslim music.

Concept: Werner Ehrhardt, Yair Dalal, and Clemens Birnbaum
Festival Opening Words: Konrad Paul Liessmann

Austrian Premiere

An oratorio of three world religions based on “Israel in Egypt” (1738), composed by George Frideric Handel, interwoven with Jewish and Muslim music.

Concept: Werner Ehrhardt, Yair Dalal, and Clemens Birnbaum
Talk with Werner Ehrhardt, Yair Dalal, and Tobias Grabher.

Double concert with the acclaimed salterio and hammered dulcimer player

Reading: Samira Kossebau

The work will be performed twice! During the intermission, we ask you to change seats and experience the second performance in a completely new way.

Reading: Amrito Geiser

Combinations of instrumental music, singing, and contemporary dance

Reading: Elias Eisold

Works by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, John Dowland, George Gershwin, The Beatles, Wolfgang Muthspiel

Concert Introduction: Albert Hosp

World Premiere

Excerpts from “Pasado En Claro” and other compositions by Anders Jormin and Lena Willemark, based on texts by Octavio Paz, Petrarca, Yamabe no Akahito, Thomas Tranströmer, Lena Willemark, and others.
Concert Introduction: Talk with Lena Willemark

Austrian Premiere

An amalgam of Hugo Distler and Johann Sebastian Bach

The two works will be performed without a break, entwined with each other, so to speak.

Concert Introduction: Albert Hosp

Music by Jimi Hendrix, Maja Osojnik, Clemens Wenger, Joe Zawinul, and many more.
Concert Introduction: Albert Hosp

Composition commissioned by the State of Lower Austria

World Premiere