"Rilke" – Berliner Cappella

In its concert marking the 150th anniversary of Rilke's birth, the BERLINER CAPPELLA takes up this multilingualism and presents a selection of the more than 1,000 settings of his poems that exist worldwide, which in their musical and stylistic range also reflect the time of their creation. The programme includes late Romanticism (Alban Berg, Alma Mahler, Franz Schreker) and Neoclassicism (Paul Hindemith), jazz sounds (Leonard Bernstein, Lidia Kalendareva) and modern to contemporary compositions (Markus Fritz, Harald Heilmann, Morten Lauridsen, Cyrill Schürch).

Alternating between choir, solo singing and readings, the poems and their musical settings tell of experiences of nature, of desires for love and of music. In doing so, they convey both the joy of life and its transience.

RILKE

BERLINER CAPPELLA - a cappella

• Soprano: Alessia Schumacher
  
• Reading: Stephan Navàr
  
• Conductor + piano: Sergi Gili Solé
  

11 July, 8 p.m., Emmaus Church
12 July, 8 p.m., St. Matthew's Church


Tickets: standard €18, reduced €15, plus €25 (standard price plus donation), free choice of seating

Discounts available for trainees, citizens receiving social welfare benefits, federal volunteers, school pupils, severely disabled persons, students