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Wiener Singakademie / Pro Brass / Heinz Ferlesch
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Passion is a stormy, often exuberant desire to want and do things not only well, but in the best possible way – or to put it in the words of the French writer Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort: »Through passion, man lives, through reason he merely exists.« Pro Brass and the Wiener Singakademie present new arrangements of Händel’s »Fireworks Music« and the coronation anthem »Zadok the Priest«, among others. Incidentally, the latter should also ring in the ears of passionate football fans. There is also the third movement from Werner Pirchner’s »Firewater Music« and the two-choir »Miserere« by Gregorio Allegri – the legendary work that was performed every Holy Week in the Sistine Chapel from the 1630s until 1870 and whose copying ban the 14-year-old Mozart elegantly circumvented by writing it down from memory after hearing it once.
