Arnold Schoenberg Choir
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Erwin Ortner
conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
"Komm, Jesu, komm", BWV 229
"Jesu, meine Freude", BWV 227
Leonhard Lechner (1553-1606)
"Das Hohelied Salomonis" ("Song of Solomon")
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
"Os justi", WAB 30
"Christus factus est", WAB 11
"Ave Maria", WAB 6
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
"Lux aeterna"
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
"Fest- und Gedenksprüche", Op. 109
In this program the Arnold Schoenberg Choir takes on the search for a lost oneness whose name is love. The reality of love is revealed in all its manifestations and forms: corporal or spiritual, emotional and apocalyptic, from passion to compassion and from the erotic to selfless love. The religious and philosophical spectrum here ranges from the Old Testament “Song of Songs”—one of the most beautiful love poems in world literature—to the vision of “lux aeterna,” or inextinguishable divine love: “And may the eternal light shine on them.” Musically speaking, this concert covers a span from the vocal polyphony of Renaissance composer Leonhard Lechner to György Ligeti’s modernist music of the spheres.