Advent Concert at the Music High School
Centre for the Highly Gifted organises Christmas programme as a benefit event
The entire spectrum of musical instruction at the Music High School Schloss Belvedere can be experienced in a Christmas setting. The Centre for Highly Gifted Students of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar invites interested listeners to its traditional Advent concert on Saturday, 17 December at 7:00 pm in the Great Hall of the Music High School.
Admission is free. The concert is a benefit event in favour of the association "German Doctors e. V." within the framework of the UNESCO project school activities of the Music High School.
The programme will begin with an artistic journey to Spain: The violinist and composer Pablo de Sarasate, born in Pamplona, composed "Navarra" op. 33, which will be interpreted by the violinists Julia Lehnert and Rhoda Knötzele.
Sarasate's compatriot Joaquín Rodrigo, who was born in Valencia, can be heard with his "Fantasía para un gentilhombre" afterwards. The guitarist Matteo Hornig will play together with the orchestra of the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere Weimar conducted by Joan Pagès Valls.
This will be followed by a concert block with the choir of the Musikgymnasium. Psalm settings of "The Lord is my Shepherd" and "God has commanded all his angels" will be performed alongside sacred Renaissance music by Claudio Monteverdi, whose "Selva morale e spirituale" and "Messa-Kyrie" will be heard.
Natalie Miller sings as soloist, Sarah Pérarnaud Aramendi accompanies on the piano, and the overall direction is in the experienced hands of Annette Schicha.
In the third part of the Advent concert, the choir and orchestra perform Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's choral cantata "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten". The soloist is Judith Kaiser (soprano).
Afterwards, the audience can look forward to Franz Schubert's overture from the incidental music to "Rosamunde", before the evening ends with Witold Lutosławski's "Little Suite" for symphony orchestra. Joan Pagès Valls will once again conduct.
[8 December 2022]