Michael Taylor | Countertenor

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), zu seinen Lebzeiten wie heutzutage geradezu ein Star des musikalischen Barock, komponierte nicht nur ein umfangreiches Werk nahezu aller damals üblicher Formen, sondern ließ sich auch aus verschiedenen europäischen Kompositionsstilen und folkloristischer Musik inspirieren.

Seine Matthäuspassion von 1730 stellt im heutigen Konzertleben eine absolut hörenswerte Rarität dar, der sich in seinem ersten Konzert seit der Neugründung 2017 nun der Essener Domchor, fünf renommierte Vokalsolisten und das Consortium Musica Sacra Köln auf historischen Instrumenten widmen.

Der Evangelientext ist dabei in noch deutlich barocker, aber doch schon sehr zum galanten Stil tendierender Tonsprache vertont und erreicht durch eine kompositorische Satztechnik im Chorsatz eine nahezu opernhafte Dramatik!

Georg Philipp Telemann: Matthäus-Passion (1730)

Heike Heilmann, Sopran

Michael Taylor, Alt

Georg Poplutz, Tenor

Harald Martini, Bass

Arndt Schumacher, Bass

Consortium Musica Sacra Köln

Essener Domchor

Leitung: Jörg Stephan Vogel

Eintritt: Hauptschiff € 20,- / Seitenschiff € 10,-

Kartenvorverkauf ab sofort in der Domschatzkammer dienstags bis sonntags 11 Uhr bis 17 Uhr

The OpusXX Orchestra presents an interdisciplinary performance incorporating two Baroque pioneers – Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini – in a unique program that fuses contemporary dance (Andrea D. Kingston) with music performed on historical instruments, featuring soloists Michael Taylor and Magnus Hallur-Jonsson.

GutFEELING examines the stereotypes of gender roles and their social implications. Between the forbidden sensuality of Caccini’s chromatism and the profane music of Strozzi, the artists challenge concepts of idealism and deconstruct the patriarchal domination of classical music. Following its mission to illuminate neglected female composers, the musicians of OpusXX Orchestra take a look at Barbara Strozzi, the most prolific composer of 17th century printed secular music, along with her compatriot Francesca Caccini, the first woman to compose an opera. Musical director Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue contextualizes new and existing music to create original multidisciplinary programs, each with the mission to improve the stories of women in the arts.

Conductor: Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue
Musicians of the OpusXX Orchestra
Michael Taylor, Countertenor; Magnus Hallur Jonsson, Tenor
Dancer & Choreographer: Andrea Danae Kingston

Countertenor Michael Taylor teams up with award-winning early music ensemble Pallade Musica to explore the theatre rivalries of 18th century London. The program delves into the various rival factions that arose upon Handel’s arrival in London around 1710, from the various characters within the Royal Academy of Music to the famous rivalry between Handel and Porpora,  as well as some of the neglected factions such as the English Opera Project and Handel’s followers and successors.

Featuring works by Handel, Bononcini, Porpora, Ariosti, Haym, Arne and more.

Johannes Kreidler pursues a concept of music expanded into multimedia. In an oftentimes double-edged and provocative manner, his works question music for its confinements in history and social structure.

By means of a music-theatrical essay for two performers (one of them Kreidler himself) and vocal soloists, SELBSTAUSLÖSER deals with the technical aids of everyday objects that serve as a bridge to our personal experience of the world, cultural techniques that must be mastered in order to use them, and, at the same time, limitations that they impose due their hidden restrictions. Cross connections unfold between the sphere of the musical instrument (it serves as a mediator to the special world of sounds), the functions of vacuum cleaner and coffee machine, and, here lies Kreidler’s main point of interest, the technical instruments of modern media society from Facebook to Alexa.

Concept, Composition, Stage Direction: Johannes Kreidler | Stage: Johannes Kreidler, Dejana Sekulic | Direction Vocal Ensemble: Timo Kreuser

With: Johannes Kreidler, Performance | Arno Lücker, Performance | Solistenensemble PHØNIX16

(c) BAM! https://bam-berlin.org/en/2019-kreidler/