Stuttgarter Oratorienchor e.V.

The Summer Concerts of the Stuttgart Oratorio Choir are traditionally free in their programmatic orientation. In contrast to the Passion Concert or Christmas Concert,where thematic contexts are taken into account, we have been able to take the opportunity in the summer over the past years to make our cultural contribution with special works. Examples of this would be the Misa Tango by Palmeri with instrumental tango compositions by Piazzolla (2019), the operatic Petite Messe solennelle by Rossini (2018), the peace mass The Armed Man by Jenkins (2015) or even a mixed French programme such as Musique du ciel with works Read more…

Sometimes they lead to impressive musical ideas: Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” is one of the most performed works of music literature in the world today. Strictly speaking, it owes its creation to three fortunate circumstances. 1. “Moving” of original manuscripts to Munich Christoph Freiherr von Aretin was sent to the Convent of Benediktbeuren in the course of secularisation in 1803 to transfer all valuable medieval manuscripts there to the Munich Court Library (today: Munich “Staatsbibliothek”). Among them was a manuscript with 119 leaves and 8 pictorial miniatures from the middle of the 13th century – mainly in Middle Latin, but Read more…