Romanischer Sommer 2025 - Romanische Nacht

In the organizer's words:

The "Romanesque Night" - music and location merge to create a unique ambience on Midsummer's Eve.

Broadcast: The Romanesque Night to listen to in WDR 3 concert on Sunday, April 27 from 8.04 pm

All four concerts of the Romanesque Night:
Box Office and VVK 35 euros (reduced 25 euros)

Against the war
20.00 hrs

The choral work "Gegen den Krieg" was composed in 1936 to a text by Berthold Brecht. The rejection of war plays a conspicuous role in Hanns Eissler's music, not least due to his own war experience as an 18-year-old soldier in the First World War. The Kölner Kantorei's program is dedicated to musical calls for peace from various regions and eras of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the face of increasing crises and conflicts, the question of lasting peace is becoming more and more important. How can we stand up for a world without war and violence and actively set an example for peace? Especially on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Germany, the ensemble is keen to send out a musically powerful signal for the promotion of peace.

Participants:

Kölner Kantorei
Georg Hage, conductor

Corona Stellarum
21.00 hrs

As early as the 17th century, the Archbishopric of Cologne was an important cultural center in Europe. Johann Christopher Pez, who is still relatively unknown and underestimated today, entered the service of the Cologne Elector Joseph Clemens at the age of 30 to reform the electoral chapel. The collection rediscovered by Harmonie Universelle: "Corona Stellarum", contains motets for solo voice, 2 violins and basso continuo, which deal with the coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth.

Performers:

DOROTHEE MIELDS
Harmonie Universelle
Florian Deuter, violin
Monica Waisman, violin

Dreamlight
10.00 pm

The "Traumlicht" program is highly romantic and includes works by Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Richard Strauss. The ensemble Vocapella Limburg will be supported by a horn quartet for some of the pieces, giving the warm male choir sound a further color and greater expressiveness. In addition to the aforementioned greats, music by lesser-known representatives of the "long 19th century" such as Carl Steinhauer, Ferdinand Hummel and Franz Abt will also be heard. The international composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Darius Milhaud and Nikolai Tscherepnin complete the varied program and provide further sonority.

Participants:

Vocapella Limburg
Tenors: Erik Burger, Stefan Huber, Steffen Krüger, Simon Nemet, Alexander Pech, Simon Schmitt, Axel Straube, Felix Weber
Basses: Tobias Arthen, Matthias Böhnke, Michael Bucher, Benedikt Franz, Andreas Fulda, Eric Grunwald, Andreas Kipping, Nicolas Ries, Raphael Ries, Julian Ritschel, Johannes Schulz, Jona Steuerwald
Horns: Stefan Berrang, Finn Bohn, Ulrich Grau, Konrad Probst

Sounds of Heaven
23.00 hrs

TENGERTON - translated "sounds of heaven" - is a string quartet whose musical work is based on the two iconic elements of Mongolian soundscapes: the knee fiddle Moriin Khuur and the fascinating overtone and undertone singing Khoomii and Kharkhiraa. The ensemble develops a contemporary musical language with which they interpret the rich repertoire of traditional Mongolian songs in their own arrangements.

The two master musicians UUGAN and NASAA - both with decades of international experience worldwide - with the musicians YESUU and DALAI, both with profound academic as well as traditional training and youthful freshness and talent. Together they compose their own pieces and improvise on typical instruments that they have modified and built themselves. The four musicians live in Europe, but are inspired by the barren, endless expanses of Mongolia and the magical music of the country during regular musical research trips. It is not only for nomadic shepherds a deep need to fill the immense empty spaces of nature with sounds, to trace the topography of the landscape in melodies and to respond to the wind, which carries all the sounds and noises of our earth. TENGERTON searches for such fine sounds, which they then bring in their luggage and their memories to the stages of even pulsating metropolises at their concerts - and now to the vastness of St. Maria im Kapitol.

Performers:

TENGERTON Quartet

Price information:

Advance booking and Box Office 35€ / reduced 25€