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Brief but fruitful musical encounter

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: A MUSICAL AFFAIR Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall/Sunday The title of this concert was probably derived from the 1945 David Lean-directed black-and-white movie Brief Encounter, in which Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto featured prominently in the soundtrack. It, however, accurately describes the musical collaboration between musicians from Singapore and Austria in this concert, […]

SurpriSinging!

Congratulations to the Heinrich-Schütz-Ensemble Vornbach on the occasion of their 20th anniversary, with a bouquet of vocal specialties. Our summery a cappella program tells stories about God and the world, the desire for freedom, the pitfalls of love and endearing absurdities of everyday life.

Fresh wind with Chorus sine nomine

`Tuuli’, the Finnish word for ‘wind’, is the name given by the Chorus Sine Nomine to the impressive evening during which a fresh, new wind blew through the well occupied Middle Hall of the Brucknerhaus. A choir standing in file? Not the Chorus Sine Nomine and its conductor Johannes Hiemetsberger who founded the ensemble twenty […]