Brno International Music Festival
EASTER FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC
15 th year
April 9 – 23, 2006
Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedrale
For this years fifteenth annual Easter Festival of Sacred Music, six concerts during the weeks before and after Easter Sunday (9 to 23 April) will be held at Brnos Petrov Cathedral. In keeping with the spirit of Easter worship, the three concerts in the week before Good Friday will have a Passion theme; the other three will be joyful. All of the concerts will have an overarching stylistic theme. The festival traditionally opens with the Stabat Mater, this year in the Romantic visions of Franz Schubert and Giuseppe Verdi. The second evening belongs to Jan Dismas Zelenka, the foremost Czech composer of High Baroque. Another concert will feature the Renaissance in English, Italian, and Central European music. Vienna classicism is represented in this Mozart anniversary year by two full evening concerts of the masters sacred works. This fall, for the first time in festival history, contemporary music is on the program, in the form of improvisation by creative interpreters: organist Jaroslav Tůma will expound upon the individual movements of Zelenkas Good Friday Responsories, flutist Jiří Stivín on vocal works of the Renaissance masters.
Traditionally, the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno is charged with the choral elements of the festivals repertoire: this year they will appear in three different concerts. As always, the festival will present several top soloists. Special guests include the Kühn Mixed Choir conducted by Jan Rozehnal; and, for two concerts, the famous boys choir Boni pueri from the town of Hradec Kralové. Providing the instrumental element (besides the above-mentioned soloists, and a four-member ensemble of period instruments) are two chamber orchestras (the Czech Chamber Soloists, and the Chamber Philharmonic of Pardubice), and two symphony orchestras (the North Bohemia Philharmonic under the baton of its chief conductor Charles Olivieri Munroe, and the Brno Philharmonic with its conductor-in-chief Petr Altrichter).
| April 9, 2006, 7.30 pm | |
|---|---|
Schubert: Stabat mater in F minor, D 383 Verdi: Stabat mater THE NORTH CZECH PHILHARMONY TEPLICE CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHOIR OF BRNO chorusmaster Petr Fiala Anna Virovlansky – soprano Pavol Bršlík – tenore Dali Mor bass conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe |
 |
| Place: Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul | |
| April 10, 2006, 7.30 pm | |
|---|---|
Zelenka: Responsorias to Good Friday, ZWV 55, No. 1 3 Tůma: Interludium on the theme of Zelenka (improvization) Zelenka: Responsorias to Good Friday, ZWV 55, No. 4 6 Tůma: Interludium on the theme of Zelenka (improvization) Zelenka: Responsorias to Good Friday, ZWV 55, No. 7 9 BONI PUERI chorusmasters Pavel Horák, Jakub Martinec Jaroslav Tůma – organ |
 |
| Place: Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul | |
| April 11, 2006, 7.30 pm | |
|---|---|
| , J. S. Bach: Ss. Mathew´s Passion CZECH CHAMBER SOLOISTS BONI PUERI chorusmasters Pavel Horák, Jakub Martinec Eva Adamová – soprano Pavla Zbořilová – alto Marek Olbrzymek – tenore conductor Jakub Klecker |
 |
| Place: Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul | |
| April 19, 2006, 7.30 pm | |
|---|---|
W. A. Mozart: Te Deum laudamus, KV 141 Exsultate, jubilate, KV 165 Ave verum, KV 618 Benedictus sit Deus, KV 117 Ergo interest, an quis-Quaere superna, KV 143 Tantum ergo, KV 142 Laudate Dominum, KV 339 Regina coeli C dur, KV 108 THE CZECH CHAMBER PHILHARMONIC OCHESTRA PARDUBICE CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHOIR OF BRNO Eva Daňhelová – soprano Hana Škarková – soprano conductor and chorusmaster Petr Fiala |
 |
| Place: Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul | |
| April 21, 2006, 7.30 pm | |
|---|---|
Händel: Te Deum for the victory of Dettingen, HWV 283 - selection Stivín: Improvization variations on Desprez: Kyrie Desprez: Missa de Beata Virgine- Kyrie Stivín: Improvization on Talis: O nata lux de lumine Tallis: Hymnus-Transfiguratio D.N.Jesu Christi O nata lux de lumine Stivín: Improvization on Byrd: Ave verum corpus Byrd: Hymnus ad Benedictionem Ss. Sacramenti Ave verum corpus Stivín: Improvization on Handl: Agnus Dei Handl: Missa super Sancta Maria Agnus Dei Stivín: Improvization on Gabrieli: O Domine, Jesu Christe Gabrieli: Sacrae Sinphoniae O Domine, Jesu Christe Stivín: Improvization on Gabrieli: Adoramus Te, Christi Monteverdi: Adoramus Te, Christi Stivín: Improvization on Šimbracký: Ecce Mulier Cananaea Šimbracký: Ecce Mulier Cananaea Stivín: Improvization on Zarewutius: O Jesu mi dulcissime Zarewutius: O Jesu mi dulcissime Stivín: Improvization on Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 J. S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 KÜHN´S MIXED CHOIR chorusmaster Jan Rozehnal Petr Wagner – viola da gamba Michal Novák – violon bas Jan Krejča – teorba Josef Kšica – continuo Jiří Stivín – flutes |
 |
| Place: Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul | |
| April 23, 2006, 7.30 pm | |
|---|---|
Mozart: Regina coeli in B flat major, KV 127 Mozart: Missa solemnis Dominicus-messe, KV 66 CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHOIR OF BRNO chorusmaster Petr Fiala Franziska Hirzel – soprano Eva Garajová – mezzosoprano Robert Remeselník – tenore Aleš Šťáva – bass conductor Petr Altrichter |
 |
| Place: Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul | |
