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Telemann: Der Tod Jesu 24.02.2015 TELEMANN: DER TOD JESU BAROQUE ORCHESTRA B’ROCK NDR CHOR PHILIPP AHMANN LEITUNG JOHANNA WINKEL SOPRAN FRANZ VITZTHUM COUNTERTENOR PETTER MOEN TENOR JOHANNES WEISSER BARITON SAISON 2014/2015 ABONNEMENTKONZERT 5 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 1 28.01.15 10:42 Dienstag, 24. Februar 2015, 20 Uhr Hamburg, Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal TELEMANN: DER TOD JESU GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Konzert c-Moll für Oboe, Streicher und BAROQUE ORCHESTRA B’ROCK Basso continuo TWV 51:c2 (vor 1720) NDR CHOR PHILIPP AHMANN LEITUNG Adagio JOHANNA WINKEL SOPRAN Allegro FRANZ VITZTHUM COUNTERTENOR Adagio PETTER MOEN TENOR Allegro JOHANNES WEISSER BARITON Pause GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Suite g-Moll für zwei Oboen, Fagott, Streicher und (1681 –1767) Basso continuo TWV 55:g3 (1716/ca. 1725) GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN „Der Tod Jesu“ Ouvertüre: Gravement–Vite–Gravement für Solisten, Chor und Orchester TWV 5:6 (1755) Preludio: Grave Aria 1: Allegro Aria 2: Allegro Aria 3: Tempo di Menuet Das Konzert wird am Karfreitag, den 03. April 2015, um 20.05 Uhr auf NDR Kultur gesendet. Aria 4: Allegro Aria 5: Tempo giusto Eine Kooperation mit dem NDR Chor Aria 6: Allegro assai im RahmenRahmen des Festivals 02 | PROGRAMMABFOLGE PROGRAMMABFOLGE | 03 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 2 28.01.15 10:42 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 3 28.01.15 10:42 BAROQUE ORCHESTRA B’ROCK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA B’ROCK BESETZUNG Das flämische Barockorchester B’Rock wurde 2012 gab das Orchester mit Händels „Orlando“ ERSTE VIOLINE FLÖTE CEMBALO/ORGEL 2005 auf Initiative des Cembalisten, Komponisten unter der Leitung von René Jacobs sein Debüt Rodolfo Richter Tami Krauss David Van Bouwel und Dirigenten Frank Agsteribbe und des Kontra- am Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brüssel. Im Mai 2014 bassisten Tom Devaere gegründet. Das interna- erschien eine CD-Einspielung dieser Oper (mit Lucie Giraudo Sien Huybrechts tional ausgerichtete Orchester spielt ohne festen Solisten wie Bejun Mehta, Sophie Karthäuser, Rebecca Huber LAUTE Dirigenten oder Künstlerischen Leiter, hat sich Konstantin Wolff u.a.), die wegen des großen Yukie Yamaguchi OBOE Wim Maeseele auf die historisch informierte Aufführungspraxis Erfolgs in der aktuellen Spielzeit wieder auf- spezialisiert und verbindet bewährte Größen der genommen wird. Benoit Laurent Barockliteratur mit unbekannterem Repertoire ZWEITE VIOLINE Stefaan Verdegem des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Daneben widmen Sara DeCorso sich die rund 20 jungen Musiker der Oper, dem Musiktheater und der Aufführung und Kreation Marie Haag FAGOTT zeitgenössischer Musik, die für historische Ins tru- Maite Larburu Tomek Wesolowski mente geeignet ist. B’Rock arbeitet regelmäßig mit Liesbeth Nijs führenden Solisten und Gastdirigenten zusammen, darunter René Jacobs, Jérémie Rhorer, Leonardo HORN García Alarcón, Peter Dijkstra, Alexander Melnikov, VIOLA Bart Cypers Kristian Bezuidenhout, Philippe Jaroussky, Ilina Luc Gysbregts Gilbert CamiFarras Ibragimova, Christian Poltéra und Lenneke Ruiten. Manuela Bucher Kaat De Cock VIOLONCELLO Rebecca Rosen Kate Haynes KONTRABASS Tom Devaere 04 | BESETZUNG BAROQUE ORCHESTRA B’ROCK | 05 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 4 28.01.15 10:42 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 5 28.01.15 10:42 NDR CHOR NDR CHOR BESETZUNG 1946 gegründet, ist der NDR Chor heute einer der nationalen Händel-Festspielen Göttingen und CHORDIREKTOR SOPRAN ALT führenden professionellen Kammerchöre Deutsch- den Festspielen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Philipp Ahmann Regine Adam Almut Pessara lands. Seit August 2008 hat Philipp Ahmann die International ist er zu hören bei Festivals wie künstlerische Verantwortung für das Ensemble. dem Lucerne Festival, dem Septembre Musical Bettina Hunold Gabriele-Betty Klein Neben Konzertauftritten mit Ensembles des NDR in Montreux, dem Prager Frühling und dem Dorothee Risse-Fries Ursula Ritters liegt der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit des NDR Chores Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music in London. Katharina Sabrowski Christa Diwiak heute besonders auf der Auseinandersetzung mit anspruchsvoller A-cappella-Literatur aller Häufig tritt der NDR Chor auf mit renommierten Stephanie Stiller Ina Jaks Epochen. Seit der Konzertsaison 2009/10 ist die Ensembles wie der Accademia Bizantina, Concerto Sylke Alshuth Gesine Grube eigene Abonnementreihe des NDR Chores fester Köln, dem Ensemble Resonanz, den Hamburger Raphaela Mayhaus Kristien Daled Bestandteil des Hamburger Musiklebens. In den Philharmonikern, dem Mahler Chamber Orches tra vier thematisch geprägten Konzerten zeigt der oder dem Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Tanja Ammon Chor die gesamte Bandbreite seines Repertoires. Amsterdam. Zu den Dirigenten, unter denen der Chor musizierte, gehören Persönlichkeiten wie TENOR BASS Neben den Hamburger Auftritten und vielen Eric Ericson, Marcus Creed, Stephen Layton, Konzerten im großen Sendegebiet des NDR ist Christopher Hogwood, Sir Roger Norrington, Dantes Diwiak Christoph Liebold der NDR Chor regelmäßig zu Gast bei Festivals Daniel Barenboim, Michael Gielen, Thomas Joachim Duske Christfried Biebrach wie dem Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, dem Hengelbrock, Mariss Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Andris Aram Mikaelyan Dávid Csizmár Internationalen Musikfest Hamburg, den Inter- Nelsons und Esa-Pekka Salonen. Keunhyung Lee Manfred Reich Johannes Gaubitz Clemens Heidrich Fabian Strotmann Arthur Pirvu Carsten Krüger 06 | BESETZUNG NDR CHOR | 07 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 6 28.01.15 10:42 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 7 28.01.15 10:42 PHILIPP AHMANN JOHANNA WINKEL LEITUNG SOPRAN Philipp Ahmann ist seit 2008 Chefdirigent des Johanna Winkel stammt aus einer Musikerfamilie NDR Chores in Hamburg. Unter seiner Leitung und wuchs in Minden auf. Nachdem sie Cello wurde eine eigene Abonnementreihe des Chores lernte und in mehreren Chören sang, begann sie gegründet, die seither bei Publikum und Kritik nach dem Abitur ihr Gesangsstudium in Detmold. begeisterten Anklang findet. Neben der Erarbei- Meisterkurse bei den King’s Singers, Ralf Popken, tung der A-cappella-Literatur aller Epochen hat der Akademie für Alte Musik und Christa Ludwig Philipp Ahmann sich auch einen Namen mit Inter- ergänzten ihre Ausbildung. Johanna Winkel ist im pretationen oratorischer Werke vom Barock bis Konzert- und Oratorienfach eine gefragte Solistin zur Moderne gemacht. Dabei arbeitete er mit im In- und Ausland. Ihr Repertoire erstreckt sich Orchestern der Alten Musik wie dem Concerto von Werken der Renaissance bis hin zu Werken Köln, dem Concerto con Anima und dem Elbipolis der zeitgenössischen Musik. Barockorchester Hamburg und Spezialensembles der Neuen Musik wie dem Raschèr Saxophone Winkel arbeitet mit Dirigenten wie Sylvain Quartet und dem Ensemble Resonanz sowie dem Cambreling, Jeffrey Tate, Adam Fischer, Andreas Gürzenich-Orchester Köln zusammen. Spering, Jörg Straube, Christoph Spering, Philipp Ahmann, Florian Helgath, Hans Christoph Rade- Produktionen mit der NDR Bigband und NDR mann und Frieder Bernius zusammen. Ihr inter- Brass, sowie die Leitung des NDR Mitsingpro- nationales Debut gab sie 2008 unter der Leitung jektes „SINGING!“ mit über 600 Sängerinnen von Peter Neumann in Nantes mit Concerto Köln und Sängern unterstreichen seine Vielseitigkeit. dierte er zahlreiche Werke der verschiedensten in der As-Dur Messe von Franz Schubert, die auf Bernasconi), die Titelrollen von „Iphigenie auf Die beiden bisher erschienenen CDs „Venezia“ Stilepochen ein. Arte live übertragen wurde. Es folgten Konzerte mit Tauris“ (Gluck) und „Alcina“ (Händel) führten sie und „A quattro cori“ mit dem NDR Chor stießen namhaften Ensembles: u. a. der NDR Radiophil- an historische Spielstätten wie das Markgräfliche bei der Kritik auf große Zustimmung. harmonie, der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Opernhaus in Bayreuth und das Ekhof Theater in Bremen, dem Freiburger Barockorchester, der Gotha. Des Weiteren sang sie die Rollen der Mimì, Philipp Ahmann wurde 1974 geboren. Er studierte Bachakademie Stuttgart, dem Rias Kammerchor, der Donna Elvira, der Micaëla und der Rosalinde. in Köln Dirigieren bei Marcus Creed und erhielt dem SWR Vocalensemble und Sinfonieorchester, In der vergangenen Spielzeit debütierte sie als weitere Impulse durch die Arbeit mit Peter dem Chorwerk Ruhr und dem NDR Chor. Winkel Leonore in Beethovens „Fidelio“ in Hildesheim. Neumann, Frieder Bernius und Robin Gritton. Im gastiert bei bedeutenden Musikfestivals: u. a. Jahr 2005 begann Philipp Ahmann seine Arbeit dem Bachfest Leipzig, Musikfest Berlin, Luzern bei Rundfunkchören, zunächst beim SWR Vokal- Festival, Kirchenmusikfestival Oslo, Schleswig- ensemble und dem NDR Chor. Eine regelmäßige Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival Zusammenarbeit verbindet ihn seit einigen Jahren und La Folle Journée. mit dem WDR und dem MDR Rundfunkchor, der ihn 2013 zum 1. Gastdirigenten berief. Für renom- Mehrfach ausgezeichnet im Fach Oper belegte mierte Dirigenten wie Christoph von Dohnányi, Johanna Winkel 2009 den ersten Platz im inter- Thomas Hengelbrock, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph nationalen Cantilena Wettbewerb in Bayreuth. Eschenbach, Peter Eötvös und Heinz Holliger stu- Partien wie die der Negiorea („L’ Huomo“, Andrea 08 | LEITUNG SOLISTIN | 09 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 8 28.01.15 10:42 13545_DAW_Abo05_14_15_PRO.indd 9 28.01.15 10:42 FRANZ VITZTHUM PETTER MOEN COUNTERTENOR TENOR Franz Vitzthum wurde in der Oberpfalz geboren, Der norwegische Tenor Petter Moen wurde 1988 er erhielt seine erste musikalische Ausbildung bei geboren. Er begann sein Studium an der Opern- den Regensburger Domspatzen. Sein Gesangs- hochschule in Oslo und studiert gegenwärtig an studium absolvierte er 2007
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