Within the series of Das Alte Werk meets NDR Choir the musicians of Collegium 1704 and excellent soloists to perform pieces by one world-known and one world-unknown composer of barock period: Bach and Graupner.

Reprise of the opera Il Ritorno d´Ulisse in Patria by one of the most famous Renaissance composers Claudio Monteverdi played to the occasion of his 450^th birth anniversary last year. Conducted by Václav Luks in collaboration with director Wlly Decker in Hamburg Staatsoper.

Reprise of the opera Il Ritorno d´Ulisse in Patria by one of the most famous Renaissance composers Claudio Monteverdi played to the occasion of his 450^th birth anniversary last year. Conducted by Václav Luks in collaboration with director Wlly Decker in Hamburg Staatsoper.

Reprise of the opera Il Ritorno d´Ulisse in Patria by one of the most famous Renaissance composers Claudio Monteverdi played to the occasion of his 450^th birth anniversary last year. Conducted by Václav Luks in collaboration with director Wlly Decker in Hamburg Staatsoper.

Reprise of the opera Il Ritorno d´Ulisse in Patria by one of the most famous Renaissance composers Claudio Monteverdi played to the occasion of his 450^th birth anniversary last year. Conducted by Václav Luks in collaboration with director Wlly Decker in Hamburg Staatsoper.

Two great serenades by two great composers, representatives of different stylistic periods, will be heard at a concert devoted to the sound of wind instruments. Mozart and Dvořák both composed music of ingenious melodic invention and extraordinary charm. In their works for wind instruments, however, both composers went far beyond the boundaries of the original intent of the serenade as an entertainment genre, and they wrote compositions with artistic ambitions of the highest order.

In the oratorio Israel in Egypt, against the background of biblical texts, Händel gives free rein to his wonderful musical imagination for tone painting and stirring musical expression. The extensive and enormously refined choral passages full of contrasts and vocal virtuosity are at the work’s core, and with their theatricality, they reflect the greatness of their composer as a master of opera.

In the oratorio Israel in Egypt, against the background of biblical texts, Händel gives free rein to his wonderful musical imagination for tone painting and stirring musical expression. The extensive and enormously refined choral passages full of contrasts and vocal virtuosity are at the work’s core, and with their theatricality, they reflect the greatness of their composer as a master of opera.

In the oratorio Israel in Egypt, against the background of biblical texts, Händel gives free rein to his wonderful musical imagination for tone painting and stirring musical expression. The extensive and enormously refined choral passages full of contrasts and vocal virtuosity are at the work’s core, and with their theatricality, they reflect the greatness of their composer as a master of opera.

Bach’s St Matthew Passion is not only one of the pinnacles of German Baroque music, but also one of the supreme masterpieces of European music of all time. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s legendary performance of the work in 1829 started the revival of interest in the music of the Leipzig Cantor. For nearly two centuries, this remarkable composition has been regarded as the most sublime example of perfect musical beauty.