Music about the evening and the night


Works by Schmelzer, Krieger, Vivaldi, Biber, Haydn et al.


Music about the evening and the night

Following Musica Imperialis, the next entry of the focus "Old Music" is to take place on 16 May 2015 featuring mdw's Collegium Musicum at the Stephansdom performing selected works of the baroque.

Many songs focus on the celebration of the evening, the time of contemplation and tranquility. Especially in the baroque the evening is additionally associated with social muse and festivity. The musical form of such nightly entertainment with styling, dance and decision is the Serenata.

It is unclear whether the name origins from "la sera", the evening or from "al Sereno" which means "outdoors" - both equally make sense. But that is a pleasure of higher circles, while honest citizens anxiously ask what the night will probably bring. The time of silence, of sleep, the dream is also - we know it well by Goya - the time of nightmares, monsters and demons.

Let yourself be guided through the evening with serenades, but also through the night with Vivaldi's "phantasms", "La notte" up to the soothing call of the night watchman.


Solists:

  • Josipa Bainac, Soprano
  • Ruth Bruckner, Recorder
  • Jocelyne Gibert-Rainer, Baroque Violin

Overall direction: Ingomar Rainer


Music about the evening and the night
16 May 2015, 8.30pm
Domkirche St. Stephan
Stephansplatz 3
1010 Vienna

Tickets
EUR 25 (students EUR 10) at the Domshop or by telephone +43 1 586 73 08 at Kunst und Kultur as well as at the box office.


Photos: ©Ewald Grabenbauer


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