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The Elbphilharmonie celebrates Easter digitally with Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the “Seven Last Words” by Haydn and a “Best of Beethoven”.
The St. Matthew Passion with the French early music ensemble Pygmalion under the direction of its founder Raphaël Pichon, actually planned as the prelude to the “Easter in the Elbphilharmonie” festival in the Great Hall, will be heard on Good Friday (7.30 pm) in a recording from the Église de la Madeleine in Aix-en-Provence.
There Pichon and Pygmalion perform the St. Matthew Passion as part of the traditional Aix Easter Festival on March 30th and 31st - without an audience.
In addition to Prégardien and other top soloists, there are also soprano Sabine Devieilhe and tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen
with it.
Haydn's “The Last Words” with texts by Herrndorf
On Easter Saturday (8:15 pm) follows “The seven last words of our Savior on the Cross” by Joseph Haydn with the Ensemble Resonanz and texts by Wolfgang Herrndorf (speaker is the actress Birgit Minichmayr).
The Haydn composition is a unique work in terms of music history, after all, seven adagios follow one another, i.e. only slow movements.
But the work, composed for orchestra, leaves nothing to be desired in terms of drama.
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The Ensemble Resonanz juxtaposes Haydn's poignant music with texts by Wolfgang Herrndorf, who became famous with his novel “Tschick” (made into a film by Fatih Akin).
The ensemble has assembled quotations from Herrndorf's last work, the autobiographical notes “Work and Structure”, into a sheet of text.
Riccardo Minasi is the musical director.
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen plays with Iiro Rantala
On Easter Sunday (8.15 p.m.), the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen will host the pianist Iiro Rantala.
The program includes works by Mozart, Poulenc - and Rantala, who contributes an entertaining potpourri of Beethoven set pieces with “Best of Beethoven” (director: Jaakko Kuusisto).
"He has a great sense of humor, but he takes music very seriously," says violinist Jaakko Kuusisto about his long-time musical companion Rantala.
The two Finns teamed up with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall in mid-March.
There they recorded the piano concerto in A major KV 488 by Rantala's declared favorite composer Mozart with stream cameras.
In addition, they preserved a rather turbulent montage of lots of Beethoven highlights, compiled for (jazz) piano and orchestra by Rantala and Kuusisto themselves and called "Best of Beethoven" with Finnish carelessness.
The Chamber Philharmonic will play the first half hour of the Easter stream with Francis
Poulenc's Sinfonietta - without Rantala, but with Kuusisto at the conductor's desk.
State Opera shows operas free of charge as video on demand
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The Hamburg State Opera also offers a digital Easter package on its website.
From April 2nd to 5th, 2021, selected productions from the repertoire will be available free of charge as video-on-demand.
In addition, the Hamburg production “La Passione
”,
the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, will be shown on April 3, 2021 from 00:10 to 3:10 on the ARTE cultural channel and is available in the media library.
Richard Wagner's “Parsifal” under the musical direction of Kent Nagano and staged by the theater magician Achim Freyer can be seen again at Easter.
Likewise the visually stunning production of Mozart's “Così fan tutte” by Herbert Fritsch and the musical direction by Sébastien Rouland.
#rossinigala and insights into the new "Lucia di Lammermoor"
Giuseppe Verdi's “Falstaff” staged by Calixto Bieito and with Axel Kober at the podium as well as the unique Rossini special concert “#rossinigala” under the musical direction of Alessandro De Marchi round off the digital Easter program.
A brief insight into the latest production of the Hamburg State Opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Gaetano Donizetti and the point of view of the director Amélie Niermeyer are also conveyed by a short trailer.