Auch das Schöne muss Sterben – VocalCube 2024

Even the beautiful must die: idolised - perfect - transient
Masterpieces by Orlando di Lasso, Leonhard Lechner and Heinrich Schütz
Musical direction: Andreas Egger
Performers: Vocal ensemble VocalCube
Viols: Ruth Costa, Eva Fürtinger, Annelisa Pappano, Evi Pedarnig
Organ: Elias Praxmarer
Dates: Saturday, 9 November 2024, 7 pm Parish Church Imst
Sunday, 10 November 2024, 5 pm Hofkirche Innsbruck
The vocal ensemble VocalCube invites you to two concert evenings under the title "Even the beautiful must die" in the Imst parish church and in Innsbruck's Hofkirche. Under the musical direction of Andreas Egger, masterpieces by the composers Orlando di Lasso, Leonhard Lechner and Heinrich Schütz will be performed. Lechner, who was born in the Adige Valley in South Tyrol, stands both "in the middle" of the music history between his famous predecessor Lasso and his successor Schütz and "at the centre" of the concert programme. The German Proverbs of Life and Death, published posthumously in 1606, the year of Lechner's death, represent an anchor point for the concert programme, as they use short proverbs to shed light on contemporary and cross-epochal reflections on man in the transformation of his existence and non-existence. The life story of Lechner, who was born in what is now South Tyrol, became a pupil of Orlando di Lasso as a chapel boy in Munich, converted to the Protestant faith in 1570 and was later employed as a court composer and court conductor in Stuttgart, paving the way for Protestant church music. At the transition from the late Renaissance - inspired by Lasso's school - to the Baroque, Lechner knows how to use the German language to great effect in his vocal compositions. Here the concert draws a bow to Heinrich Schütz, who mastered the art of polyphonic composition in German like no other. The VocalCube ensemble will be accompanied by organist Elias Praxmarer and a viol consort.