Deutsches Chorfest 2025 Nürnberg - Essence

Choreography
Conductor: Stephan Lutermann
Pavel Efremov, accordion

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Conductor: Philipp Barth
Christoph Steiner-Heinlein, violoncello

Works by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Caroline Shaw, Jan Sandström, Leonard Cohen and others

Two choirs, two artistic concepts and a common theme: man's relationship to nature, to time and to his own existence. The women's choir acquire is dedicated to the tension between transience and permanence. Its musically diverse program reflects the power of nature - and listeners are invited to lose themselves in the vastness of the sea or the infinity of starry space.

With its new production "Essence", Ensemble Choreos goes one step further and explores the existential questions of existence: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? 16 exceptional performers and an accordionist take the audience into a world of vibrations - as the essence of all being. With sensual images and classical choral music at the highest level, Choreos stages the search for identity, freedom and meaning.

Program:

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Ēriks Ešenvalds (*1977): Spring, the Sweet Spring
Kurt Bikkembergs (*1963): The Maiden and the Sea
Caroline Shaw (*1982): Its Motion Keeps
Don Macdonald (*1966): Winter Sun

Choreos
Philip Stopford (*1977): Lully, lulla, lullay
Eva Holm Foosnaes (*1983): The Black Monkey
Jan Sandström (*1954): Vid en strand
Georgi Sztojanov (*1985): Essence (commissioned work for Choreos)
Jan Sandström (*1954): Biegga Luothe
Sean Doherty (*1987): Sleeps a song in all things (commissioned work for choreography)
Leonard Cohen (1934 - 2016): Dance Me to the End of Love (commissioned work for choreography)
Gunnar Eriksson (*1936): Gjendines Badnlat