𝐀𝐏𝐙  𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐬̌𝐢𝐜̌ of the 𝐔𝐧𝐢versity of Ljubljana Annual concert
𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐋 𝐎𝐑𝐅𝐅: 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐀
Cantata, for soloists, choir and percussion orchestra (arr. Reinhard Summerer)
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐤𝐚: 𝐑𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐜̌ 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐜́
Saturday, June 3, 2023, at 7:30 p.m
Gallus hall, Cankarjev dom
Performers:
APZ Tone Tomšič of the University of Ljubljana, choir leader: Rahela Durič Barić
Mixed Choir of Glasbena matica Ljubljana, choir leaders: Sebastjan Vrhovnik and Ana Erčulj
Allegretto children’s choir from MS Leibnitz primary school, choir leader: Kathrin Ully
Studio Percussion Graz
Soloists:
Aleksandra Radovanović, soprano
Valentino Blasina, tenor
Christoph Gerhardus, baritone
The scenic cantata of the German composer Carl Orff from 1936 is considered one of the most evocative musical-instrumental works. The setting to music of the medieval poetic code of the Benedictine monastery of Beuern in Bavaria, which sets a series of secular songs of the flourishing European space, still urges artists to new interpretations. A few years ago, Reinhard Summerer, on the initiative of the artistic director of Studio Percussion Graz, undertook a new reworking of this work, the instrumental portion of which rests on the expanded sonority of as many as nineteen percussionists. His adaptation was performed for the first time in 2019 under the direction of conductor Rahela Durič Barić, who will also lead the first performance of Summerer’s adaptation of Carmina Burana in Slovenia at this year’s annual production of the Academic Choir of Tone Tomšič of the University of Ljubljana.