Wednesday at 20.00
Bruckner's 200th birthday celebration
St. Catharine's Church
Bruckner himself described his Symphony No. 4 as "romantic", and from the very beginning it is as if we are part of a dream where a signal welcomes a new day and then we move out into nature, serenade the beloved and go hunting.
Rued Langgaard originally performed his Pre-ludio patetico to great success in 1913 in Berlin, whereSymphony No. 1 Rock Pastorals was premiered.
Langgaard later wrote this shorter version in which he pays tribute to Niels W.
Gade by quoting Gade's melody to the hymn Syng højt min Sjæl.
In Øde Gader, to be played "Fast and Glowing", we can imagine Rued Langgaard on a desperate night walk in Ribe, both Bruckner and Langgaard loved to improvise on the organ.
Philip Schmidt-Madsen lets the two composers meet in improvisation.
Philip Schmidt-Madsen, organ
Visual staging: Lene Juhl
Thursday - Sunday
Langgaard's piano
The Old Town Hall
Sit down concert with Benjamin Arnika Skydsgaard playing evocative pieces by the festival's three composers on Rued Langgaard's historic Bechstein grand piano.
From Rued Langgaard's Catholic-inspired Chiesa madre (Mother Church) to Anton Bruckner's Erinnerung and Benna Moe's dreamy Gondoliers Serenade.
See all the day programs:
Thursday 15:30 and 17:30
Friday 12.30 pm
Saturday 11.00 am
Sunday 12.00 noon
Thursday at 20.00
Langgaard Talents
Sct.
Catharinæ Church
Young mezzo-soprano Marie Borup and Romanian pianist Stefan Macovei took the audience by storm at this year's Rued Langgaard Competition.
With strong stage presence and personality, they have embraced Langgaard's music.
In a program created for the occasion, Marie Borup and Stefan Macovei focus on dramatic romance and cosmic forebodings.
Marie Borup, mezzo-soprano
Stefan Macovei, piano
When the Young Vocal Ensemble and Poul Emborgs participated in the 2023 Festival, the idea of arranging Langgaard's beautiful Unwatched Morning Stars for choir was born.
It is now premiered with text by one of Langgaard's favorite poets, Jenny Blicher-Clausen.
You can also hear choral music by Bruckner and a number of songs by Benna Moe, which after decades in manuscript at Det Kgl.
Bibliotek, they are now finally being performed.
The Young Vocal Ensemble
Marie Borup (solo in Sol derovre gaar til Hvile)
Conductor: Poul Emborg
Visual staging: Lene Juhl
Friday at 14.00
I call out to you
St. Catharine's Church
With music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Sofia Gubaidulina's De profundis , there is a deep faith at play in this concert.
In a series of folk song-inspired songs by Rued Langgaard, we also move out into nature, which is the setting for both melancholy and high spirits.
In original music - and a series of arrangements created for the occasion by Bjarke Mogensen - we experience the enormous range of the accordion solo and in interaction with violin and the human voice.
All events by Bjarke Mogensen.
Bjarke Mogensen, accordion
Louise McClelland Jacobsen, soprano
Josefine Dalsgaard, violin
Friday at 20.00
Apocalypse
Ribe Cathedral
In Rued Langgaard's String Quartet No. 3, premiered in arrangement for orchestra, good and evil fight each other to the very last note.
And with Thomas Dausgaard's choice of the title Rabbia (rage), which Langgaard once used, the stage is set for an intense orchestral experience that takes us through the entire emotional spectrum.
Symphony No. 8 is a highlight among Anton Bruckner's symphonies that can best be compared to the experience of entering a large cathedral with infinitely high ceilings.
Over the course of four full-grown movements, we move through a world characterized by mystery and death omens, which has earned the symphony the nickname "apocalypse".
All the greater is the redemption in the finale, where light triumphs.
South Jutland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
Video Artist & Digital Set Designer: Lene Juhl
Friday at 22.30
Bruckner Yodels
Cathrinæ Monastery Farm
In the monastery courtyard and church:
In Bruckner's Abendzauber , we find ourselves in the moonlight in the mountains, where the sound of a nightingale sends our thoughts to heaven, accompanied by yodeling.
In Rued Langgaard's Florete flores - premiered here - and Adorazione , the inspiration is Catholic, with views of both heaven and hell.
In the monastery courtyard:
Rasmus Gravers Nielsen, tenor
Horn players from the Royal Danish
Music Conservatory
DR Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: Martina Batic
In the church
Louise McClelland Jacobsen, soprano
Signe Asmussen, soprano
Philip Schmidt-Madsen, harmonium
Kristoffer Hyldig, piano
Saturday at 8.00 am
Langgaard's morning
Ribe Art Museum, garden and Ribe River.
A poetic morning walking concert in Ribe Kunstmuseum's garden by Ribe Å, Sct.
Nicolai Gade and in the museum.
Inspired by Johan Thomas Lundbye's The Rising Sun over the Sea (1838) and Rued Langgaard's Symphony No. 14 The Morning (1947-48), we move through the phases of the symphony: Opening Fanfare - Unobserved Morning Stars - The Marble Church Rings - The Weary Rise to Life - Radio-Caruso and Forced Energy - "Farm Men" rush to the Office - Sun and Beech Forest. The music in Langgaard's Morning is created by musicians from the classical, rhythmic and folk music world and is based on Langgaard's Symphony No. 14 The Morning. Bente Bramming talks about the life and longing of Lundbye, who died in an accident at the age of 29.
The morning ends with coffee and Langgaard pretzels.
Bjarke Mogensen, accordion
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, saxophonist and composer
Christian Martinez, percussion (Esbjerg Ensemble)
Kerstin Thiele, flute (Esbjerg Ensemble)
David Daniel Dinu, oboe (Esbjerg Ensemble)
Annti Salovaara, bassoon (Esbjerg Ensemble)
Jonas Frølund, clarinet
Villads Hoffmann, cittern and guitar (Stundom)
Emma Kragh-Elmøe, violin and viola (Stundom)
Julian Svejgaard, piano (Stundom)
Ribe Chamber Choir
Ribe Cathedral Girls Choir
Ribe Cathedral Youth Choir
Kirstine Elise Pedersen, cello
Mathæus Bech, double bass
Jonas Hunt, conductor
Bente Bramming, pastor and PhD.
Concept: Anne-Mette Villumsen and Esben Tange
Saturday at 11:30 am
Locus iced tea
Ribe Cathedral
In the choral music, we get close to the deep religiousness that Bruckner became part of in the St. Florian monastery near Linz, where he grew up.
And in the secular choral songs, we experience a poignant and naive depiction of nature and love.
With a number of Langgaard's most beautiful and evocative choral songs, the stage is set for a moving encounter between the two composers.
DR Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: Martina Batic
Saturday at 15:00
Benna Moe's organ
Sct.
Catharinæ Church
Like Anton Bruckner and Rued Langgaard, Benna Moe loved the organ.
In Alpesuite , she paints moods during a day in the mountains.
Along the way, imagination takes over, the contours blur and Benna Moe's penchant for mystery becomes apparent.
In the Fugue in D minor, Bruckner is inspired by the great Baroque organ master Johann Sebastian Bach.
And with the Scherzo from the so-called Symphony No. 0, which the self-critical Bruckner withdrew, we are dealing with striking music that is played more and more today.
The concert ends with Langgaard's Nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse (No one against God except God himself) and Som Lynet er Kristi Genkomst.
Both works are extremely dramatic and deal with the end times, when a fire will destroy the world.
Flemming Dreisig, organ.
Flemming Dreisig knew Benna Moe and talks about her after the concert in an interview with Esben Tange.
Saturday at 20:00
During the flowering season
Sct.
Catharinæ Church
In Variations on "Mig hjertelig nu længes" , Rued Langgaard remembers a lost time that was finally over with the death of his father Siegfried Langgaard in early 1914. In "Blomstringstiden", we find ourselves in a dream world rich in religious intimations. String Quintet in F Major is Anton Bruckner's most important chamber music work, and with an extra viola we experience a particularly rich version of the classic string quintet.
The music is both intimate and grand at the same time.
Along the way, the quintet alternates between romantic singing themes - where time is allowed to stand still - and high-voltage drama.
Louise McClelland Jacobsen, soprano
Nightingale String Quartet
Eva Katrine Dalsgaard, viola
Visual staging: Lene Juhl
Sunday at 15:00
Bruckner's 7.
Sct.
Catharinæ Church
In the first part of the concert, Benna Moe and Rued Langgaard meet in music that revolves around religious moods.
In Ved Kyrkhult Kirke, Rued Langgaard recalls crucial moments in the summer of 1913, when he in the spa town of Kyrkhult met the gorgeous Dora From, who would prove to be the love of his life.
In Symphony No. 7, Anton Bruckner's love for his great role model Richard Wagner culminates.
And in the Adagio he sets a poignant memorial to Wagner, who died in Venice while Bruckner was composing his music.
The instrumentation by Schoenberg's students in Vienna cultivates a very special sound world, where piano and harmonium create a magical sound bed for the winds and strings.
Benjamin Friis Nielsen, organ
Louise McClelland Jakobsen, soprano
Kristoffer Hyldig, piano
Rosemarie Nielsen, piano
Philip Schmidt-Madsen, harmonium
Esbjerg Ensemble
Joel Bardolet, violin (in Benna Moe)
Kristina Edin, double bass
