In view of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) has made the difficult decision to cancel the February and March performances and events of the 48th HKAF. Refund information can be found at https://go.hkaf.org/rf1.
In view of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) has made the difficult decision to cancel the February and March performances and events of the 48th HKAF. Refund information can be found at https://go.hkaf.org/rf1.
The Czech Republic’s foremost professional choir brings works of pictorial and seraphic beauty by Schubert, Bruckner, Peteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre to the Festival audience.
Founded in 1935 and currently choir-in-residence at the Bregenz Festival in Austria, the Prague Philharmonic Choir received Best Vocal Performance and the Czech Television Award at the Classic Prague Awards in 2018. Known for its power and versatility, the 70-member choir has a prolific, multiple award-winning discography and has worked with eminent international orchestras and maestros like Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado and Sir Simon Rattle.
The Prague Philharmonic Choir makes its Hong Kong debut with an evening celebrating nature: Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, which the composer described as a “vision of dawn breaking and the awakening of nature with its profusion of birdsong”; and Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst, a powerful work depicting a breathtaking desert downpour witnessed by the composer himself, which has been praised as “a contemporary choral classic” (Art Desk). In their second concert, a series of sacred motets by Bruckner accompanied by the unique sounds of the pipe organ and three trombones will close a meditative evening of inspiration and reverence.
Feb 25 Franz Schubert Psalm 23, D706 The Song of the Spirits Over the Waters, D714
John Tavener Svyati
Leoš Janáček Our Father
Pēteris Vasks Plainscapes
Eric Whitacre Cloudburst
Feb 27 Petr Eben Greek Dictionary
Carl Orff Sunt lacrimae rerum
Ivan Božičević Spring Passes
Anton Bruckner Os justi, WAB30 Prelude in C major, WAB129 Tota pulchra es, Maria, WAB46 Aequale No 1 in C minor, WAB114 Afferentur regi, WAB1 Ave Maria, WAB6 Aequale No 2 in C minor, WAB149 Locus iste, WAB23 Ecce sacerdos magnus, WAB13
Meet-the-Artist (Post-performance)
Date: 25 Feb 2020(Tue) Venue: Concert Hall, HK City Hall
In English
Free and open to all ticket holders
Pre-Performance Talk
Date: 27 Feb 2020(Thu) Time: 7:15 – 7:45pm Venue: Podium Workshop, HK Cultural Centre Speaker: Felix Yeung (Music Director, Die Konzertisten)
In Cantonese
Free and open to all ticket holders Prague Philharmonic Choir Choral workshop
Date: 28 Feb 2020(Fri) Time: 5:00 - 7:30pm Venue: HK Children's Choir West Kowloon Centre
The Czech Republic’s foremost professional choir brings works of pictorial and seraphic beauty by Schubert, Bruckner, Peteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre to the Festival audience.
Founded in 1935 and currently choir-in-residence at the Bregenz Festival in Austria, the Prague Philharmonic Choir received Best Vocal Performance and the Czech Television Award at the Classic Prague Awards in 2018. Known for its power and versatility, the 70-member choir has a prolific, multiple award-winning discography and has worked with eminent international orchestras and maestros like Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado and Sir Simon Rattle.
The Prague Philharmonic Choir makes its Hong Kong debut with an evening celebrating nature: Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, which the composer described as a “vision of dawn breaking and the awakening of nature with its profusion of birdsong”; and Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst, a powerful work depicting a breathtaking desert downpour witnessed by the composer himself, which has been praised as “a contemporary choral classic” (Art Desk). In their second concert, a series of sacred motets by Bruckner accompanied by the unique sounds of the pipe organ and three trombones will close a meditative evening of inspiration and reverence.
Programme
Feb 25 Franz Schubert Psalm 23, D706 The Song of the Spirits Over the Waters, D714
John Tavener Svyati
Leoš Janáček Our Father
Pēteris Vasks Plainscapes
Eric Whitacre Cloudburst
Feb 27 Petr Eben Greek Dictionary
Carl Orff Sunt lacrimae rerum
Ivan Božičević Spring Passes
Anton Bruckner Os justi, WAB30 Prelude in C major, WAB129 Tota pulchra es, Maria, WAB46 Aequale No 1 in C minor, WAB114 Afferentur regi, WAB1 Ave Maria, WAB6 Aequale No 2 in C minor, WAB149 Locus iste, WAB23 Ecce sacerdos magnus, WAB13
PLUS
Meet-the-Artist (Post-performance)
Date: 25 Feb 2020(Tue) Venue: Concert Hall, HK City Hall
In English
Free and open to all ticket holders
Pre-Performance Talk
Date: 27 Feb 2020(Thu) Time: 7:15 – 7:45pm Venue: Podium Workshop, HK Cultural Centre Speaker: Felix Yeung (Music Director, Die Konzertisten)
In Cantonese
Free and open to all ticket holders Prague Philharmonic Choir Choral workshop
Date: 28 Feb 2020(Fri) Time: 5:00 - 7:30pm Venue: HK Children's Choir West Kowloon Centre
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