Songs of the night

The Camerata Vocale Freiburg invites you on a sonorous journey through the dark and light facets of the night with its program "Songs of the Night" - from the Romantic period to the present day.

Sacred works by Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms open the evening. Albert Becker's psalm setting and Max Reger's dense choral movement span an arc between consolation and inwardness.

Modern accents are set by compositions by Wolfram Buchenberg and Karl Jenkins, whose "Exsultate, jubilate" exudes light-filled energy.

With the quiet, enraptured "Armer junger Hirt" by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Robert Schumann's
"Mondnacht" (arr. Clytus Gottwald), the night encounters delicate, poetic worlds of sound. At the end, Richard Strauss' "Morgen!" is heard - a gentle glimpse of hope and light.

A polyphonic concert that listens to the night - and traces the light within it.

Program:

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847):
Kyrie eleison, Glory to God in the highest
From: German Liturgy MWV B 57

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Warum ist das Licht gegeben op. 74 No. 1
Motet for 4-part choir

Albert Becker (1834-1899):
Ich hebe meine Augen auf op. 89 No. 1

Wolfram Buchenberg (* 1962):
Veni, dilecte mi!

William Hawley (1851-1941):
Io son la primavera
Vita de la mia vita

Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Mondnacht (arr. Clythus Gottwald)

Max Reger (1873-1916):
Abendlied op. 39 for 6-part choir

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 -2007):
Armer junger Hirt
From: "Chöre für Doris" No. 1/11: No. 2

Richard Strauss (1864-1949):
Morgen! op. 27 No. 4 (arr. Lukas Haselböck)

Karl Jenkins (* 1944)
Exsultate, jubilate

Camerata Vocale Freiburg
Winfried Toll, conductor

The Camerata Vocale Freiburg is a highly respected German chamber choir which has been under the direction of Winfried Toll since 1988. The choir has performed at major festivals and concert series in Germany and abroad. Tours have taken the 25 to 40 trained singers to Portugal, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Canada, several times to Brazil, to neighboring European countries and in 2015 to South Korea.
The ensemble has been very successful at national and international competitions (first prizes at the German Choir Competition and the International Choir Competition in Cork, Ireland). Since 1986, the Camerata Vocale Freiburg has worked with the SWR Studio Freiburg on several occasions. Eight CD productions have been made to date, which have been enthusiastically reviewed by the press.

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Camerata Vocale Freiburg | Photo © Frank Tusch