On Saturday, October 18, the Mass in D by Antonín Dvořák for choir and organ will be performed in an intercultural combination at 5 pm in the Georgenkirche in Waren.
On Saturday, October 18, the Mass in D by Antonín Dvořák for choir and organ will be performed in an intercultural combination at 5 pm in the Georgenkirche in Waren.
The cantata choir and Jack Day on the restored Lütkemüller organ will perform the Czech composer's mass with cantor Christiane Drese, which Elham Hamedi will comment on and complement on the Persian Kamantsche. The choir will also perform chorales in an improvisational interplay of organ harpsichord and kamanche. The concert will be framed by organ variations by the Dutch organist and composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck from the early 17th century.
Antonín Dvořák composed the Mass in D for choir and organ for the inauguration of the castle chapel in Lužany (south-west Bohemia), where he himself conducted the premiere in 1887. Dvořák later orchestrated the mass. As a masterpiece of late Romanticism, it went and still goes around the world. It impresses above all with its artful and highly contrasting dynamics and compositional technique. From fortissimo to breathy pianissimo, it is sometimes only a few notes.
Jack Day (organ) and Elham Hamedi (kamanche) have been playing together as a duo since 2021. The kamanche is a spiked violin from the Middle Eastern cultural area (Iran, Azerbaijan) with a range roughly equivalent to that of a violin, but which produces a very unique sound rich in overtones.
Tickets (€15, reduced price for pupils, students, severely disabled persons €8, free up to 18 years) are available at the Waren (Müritz) Information Office, at all Reservix advance booking offices, at www.stgeorgen-waren.de and at the box office from 4.30 pm.
