Autor: Ute Konnerth

Medieval manuscript page with a colorful illustration of Fortuna's Wheel, depicting a crowned figure on the wheel surrounded by regal imagery and Latin text.

Coincidences really exist!

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Sometimes they lead to impressive musical ideas: Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” is one of the most performed works of music literature in the world today. Strictly speaking, it owes its creation to three fortunate circumstances. 1. “Moving” of original manuscripts to Munich Christoph Freiherr von Aretin was sent to the Convent of Benediktbeuren in the course of secularisation in 1803 to transfer all valuable medieval manuscripts there to the Munich Court Library (today: Munich “Staatsbibliothek”). Among them was a manuscript with 119 leaves and 8 pictorial miniatures from the middle of the 13th century – mainly in Middle Latin, but Lesen Sie mehr …

A choir and orchestra perform in a church with stained glass windows. The choir stands on a riser, dressed in black, while the orchestra sits in front. An audience is seated in wooden pews, watching the performance intently.

Beeindruckend. Berührend. Bewegend.

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Der Stuttgarter Oratorienchor führte am vergangenen Palmsonntag nach 12 Jahren zum zweiten Mal Antonín Dvořáks “Stabat Mater” auf. Enrico Trummer gelang es, an diesem Abend alle Mitwirkenden zu einer musikalischen Glanzleistung zu führen. Ein hervorragend disponierter Chor konnte diese geniale Komposition mit ihren herrlichen Momenten und ihrer unvergleichlichen Emotionalität durch vielfältige Gestaltungsdetails, manchmal im Wechsel, aber auch zusammen mit einem fantastischen Solistenquartett und einem hochprofessionellen Orchester unmittelbar in die Seele unseres Publikums hineinsingen und musizieren. Alles war auf den Punkt gebracht… Selten waren die Reaktionen der Zuhörer und Zuhörerinnen während und nach dem Konzert intensiver: Man konnte sogar vereinzelt Tränen Lesen Sie mehr …

A choir and orchestra perform in a church with stained glass windows. An audience is seated in wooden pews, facing the performers, as they play and sing in an acoustically rich environment.

Impressive. Touching. Moving.

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The Stuttgart Oratorio Choir performed Antonín Dvořák’s “Stabat Mater” for the second time after 12 years last Palm Sunday. Enrico Trummer succeeded in leading all participants to a brilliant musical performance this evening. An excellently disposed choir was able to sing and play this ingenious composition with its glorious moments and incomparable emotionality directly into the soul of our audience through a variety of creative details, sometimes in alternation, but also together with a fantastic quartet of soloists and a highly professional orchestra. Everything was to the point… Rarely have the reactions of the audience been more intense during and Lesen Sie mehr …