European and American choral music from four centuries

Cooperation with the International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf

Delaware is a small state in the USA, about 250 km south of New York. At the University of Delaware, Dr. Paul D. Head leads the extensive program for choral conducting, which includes several choirs with different thematic orientations. His travel ensemble Choral Scholars has already received many awards. This year, the choir is participating in the International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf in the Allgäu, to which about a dozen excellent choirs from around the world are invited every two years. We are grateful for this further cooperation, through which we get to know a first-class and ambitious US ensemble.

Johann Sebastian Bach  All glory be to God BWV 662
Marcel Dupré  Prelude and Fugue in H major
Louis Vierne  Symphony III in F-sharp minor
Percy Whitlock  Fantasy Choral in D-flat major

subsequently Artist Meeting in the organ loft

The magnificent Kuhn organ of the Bern Cathedral, where Christian Barthen has been serving since 2022, invites the performance of symphonic works. Thus, the cathedral organist and professor at the Music Academy of Bern enjoys playing Dupré, Vierne, or Whitlock "at home" and will be able to appreciate our Mühleisen organ, on which such music can be interpreted more than appropriately. Among the merits that the choice Swiss has collected is the 1st prize at the Grand Prix de Chartres – comparable to Wimbledon in the tennis world. In addition to cathedrals and concert halls from South America to the Far East, he is also familiar with Swabia: as a young cantor, he worked at the Giengen City Church.

Soloists
Stuttgarter Kantorei
Members of the Stiftsbarock Stuttgart ensemble
Jonas Dippon   conducting

The Fountains of Versailles – the fountains of Versailles

Jean-Baptiste Lully  Exaudiat te Dominus
Marc-Antoine Charpentier  Te Deum
Michel-Richard de Lalande  The Fountains of Versailles (excerpts)
Jacques Danican Philidor »le Cadet«  March of Timpanists
François Couperin  Jucunda vox ecclesiae

At the court of Louis XIV in Versailles, music was played from morning to evening, at festivities and also on »ordinary« days. One of the court composers, Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726), was inspired by the famous water features in the garden and composed the opera The Fountains of Versailles, from which excerpts will be heard in this concert. It has been selected by Jonas Dippon, who would like to delve into the style of the magnificent French Baroque music during the final concert of his assistantship with the Stiftskantor. The singers of the Stuttgarter Kantorei and all instrumentalists will support him to the best of their abilities!