A Little Night Music - Concerts at Capuchin Church

Neuer Markt

1010 Wien

 

Listen to masterpieces of classical music in a concert in the heart of Vienna, Capuchin Church. In addition to Mozart's name-giving A Little Night Music, the program also includes Schubert's Ave Maria, Haydn's Emperor's Quartet and Bach's Air. Come to a concert at Capuchin Church in the evening and let yourself be enchanted by the music of the Vienna Emperor Quartet.

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the cornerstone-laying of Capuchin Church and the Imperial Crypt in 1622, the cornerstone for the chamber concerts is also being laid this year - imperial in every sense of the word. Over the centuries, around 150 members of the Habsburg imperial family have been buried in the Capuchin Crypt - a unique place in the world.

Meet the Emperor Quartet Vienna, where great experience meets young esprit, where masterful interpretation is passed on to the next generation, where the joy of playing music together is passed on to the audience, and where programmes are prepared and arranged with great attention to detail. Members of the Emperor Quartet Vienna play in the most important and most famous orchestras in Vienna, teach at universities and conservatories - many of them also perform as soloists regularly. In the Emperor Quartet Vienna they share the joy of making music together.

Combo-Ticket: Combine your concert visit with the most famous crypt in the world, the Imperial Crypt. The burial place of the Habsburgs since 1618 lets you feel 400 years of Austrian and European history. Marvel at the tombs of famous rulers, such as Emperor Franz Joseph and his beautiful wife Elisabeth "Sisi", the impressive double coffin of "Empress" Maria Theresa and Franz I Stephan of Lorraine or the modest copper coffin of the reform emperor Joseph II. Last admission to the crypt is at 17:30, so it is wonderful to combine it with the concert.

Program:

W. A. Mozart: "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (A Little Night Music, KV 525)
J. Haydn: 2nd movement: Poco adagio; cantabile from "Kaiserquartett" (Emperors Quartet, Hob. III: 77)
F. Schubert: Ave Maria (D 839)
A. Bruckner: Locus Iste (WAB 23)
W. A. Mozart: from Requiem KV 626: "Lacrimosa" (arrangement for string quartet)
J. S. Bach: "Air" from orchestral suite no. 3, BWV 1068
P. I. Tschaikowski: from string quartet in D major Op. 11: 2nd movement: Andante cantabile (after a Ukrainian folk song)

60 minutes, no intermission

(Source: kunstkultur.com)