Throughout the festival
Motherboard: Only the voice remains
The sculpture and sound installation Bruddet at Domkirkepladsen
The title Only the Voice Remains comes from a poem by Iranian author Forugh Farrokhzad.
Through the Breach, the "voice of man" and the "voice of nature" is experienced and reflected in the surroundings.
Available throughout the festival.
Free of charge
11.00 am
Dora - Summer of 1913
Drakomir Theater Hall
World premiere of Dora - Summer 1913 - a musical performance about Rued Langgaard's great love (70').
Dora From was the love of Rued Langgaard's life, and the feelings were mutual, even though they never met.
11 years after Langgaard's death, Dora looks back on the meetings they had and the composer Rued Langgaard, whom she understood better than anyone else.
The performance is based on a storyline developed by Henrik Engelbrecht and Esben Tange.
Dora: Lotte Andersen
Signe Asmussen, soprano
Berit Johansen Tange, piano
Staging: Esben Tange
Set design: Simone Bartholin
Lighting: Steffen Graumann
Technique/stage: Theo Rick and Steffen Graumann
Sewing: Birthe Hald, Birte Nørgaard and Kamma Marthinsen
Songs and piano pieces by Rued Langgaard
At 15:30
Langgaard's piano
The Old Town Hall
Sit down concert with Benjamin Arnika Skydsgaard playing mood 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.
Also visit the Rued Langgaard exhibition on the first floor of the Old Town Hall.
Free access
At 16:30
Festival opening - Domkirkepladsen sings
Cathedral Square
The Young Vocal Ensemble and hundreds of choir singers from Southwest Jutland, Southern Jutland and the festival audience unite in the heart of Ribe.
Jonas Hunt:
Rued Langgaard Festival fanfare.
For brass ensemble World premiere (1´)
Opening speech (NN)
Rued Langgaard: The Great Master is coming.
Motet(church melody) (B.S. Ingemann) BVN 175 (1922).
Four verses.
Solo, choir, tutti.
Prelude for brass ensemble.
Arrangement by Jonas Hunt
The spirit of place.
By Esben Tange
Benna Moe: Catholic Hymn (Edgar Allan Poe).
Arrangement for choir and brass ensemble by Jonas Hunt.
Anton Bruckner: Locus iste(This place was created by God) Graduale WAB 23 (1869) (3')
Anton Bruckner. Adagio from Symphony No. 7.
Choir and brass ensemble.
Text Ave Maria.
Arrangement by Jonas Hunt.
Motherboard: Kun stemmen bliver tilbage (2024) (5')
Prologue to an opera performance by the interdisciplinary community Motherboard about the voice in all its diversity created based on the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad's poem Kun stemmen bliver tilbage (1967).
The performance takes place around the sound installation Bruddet, designed by scenographer Peter Schultz and set up at Domkirkepladsen throughout the festival.
Katinka Fogh Vindelev, soprano
Morten Grove Frandsen, countertenor
Benjamin Friis Nielsen: Elegy - The Death of Dagmar (2023) in arrangement for brass ensemble.
Premiere (2')
The folk song Queen Dagmar lies ill in Ribe: Children's choir, boys' choir, girls' choir, youth choir, men's choir, women's choir, adult choir, folk choir and brass ensemble.
Arrangement by Rued Langgaard and Benjamin Friis Nielsen.
(duration?)
Det Unge VokalEnsemble
Local choirs from Ribe, Bramming, Esbjerg and South and Southern Jutland.
Messingseptet.
Students and teachers from the Royal Danish Academy of Music and MGK Syd.
Conductor: Poul Emborg
Free access
At 17.30
Langgaard's piano
The Old Town Hall
Sit down concert with Benjamin Arnika Skydsgaard playing mood 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.
Also visit the Rued Langgaard exhibition on the first floor of the Old Town Hall.
Free access
At 19.00
Bruckner's Austria map
Langgaard Hall
Lecture by litterateur and Austrian connoisseur Jørgen Herman Monrad.
Hear about the culture Bruckner was part of as a choirboy at the St. Florian Monastery in Linz, then as a rural teacher in the Austrian provinces, and finally as an organist and composer in the imperial city of Vienna.
At 20.00
The winners of the Rued Langgaard Competition 2024 + The Young Vocal Ensemble and Poul Emborg
Sct.
Catharinæ Church
First part:
Concert with the winners of the Rued Langgaard Competition 2024 soprano Marie Borup and pianist Stefan Macovei.
Pause
Part 2:
Benna Moe:
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Blommarna sover Aftensang (Eignhild Enlund)
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Sommeren BM første komposition
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Nu tændes de stjerner i aftenblå Koral (Johannes Jørgensen)
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I mellem nattens stjerner Koral (Johannes Jørgensen)
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Bækken (Viggo Stuckenberg)
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Første møde (Alex Graff)
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Hvem tror det, vi hører…
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Ave Maria arrangement af solosang
Rued Langgaard:
- Unobserved Morning Stars from Symphony no. 14 The Morning BVN 336 (1947-48) in arrangement for choir.
Text: At Sunrise (Jenny Blicher-Clausen).
World premiere.
(8')
- Tro (Emilie Thorup) from Tre aandelige Sange (1914) BVN 88
Anton Bruckner:
- Afferentur regi (She is born to the king) WAB 1 (1861)
At 22.00
Langgaard Lounge
Café Rued, Porsborg
Meet Katinka Fogh Vindelev from the artist group Motherboard and hear about the inspiration from Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad and her poem Only the voice remains.
... and meet a number of today's artists who will answer questions from the audience while we enjoy a Rued Langgaard porter from Ribe Bryghus.
Kirstine Elise Pedersen, cello, and Mathæus Bech, double bass, play their arrangement of Rued Langgaard's String Quartet No. 3 BVN 183 (1924)
Host: Karen Bendix
Free access
Day program 2024
Rued Langgard Festival in Ribe, September 4-8
Wednesday
Thursday
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SATURDAY
Sunday
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