Vocal-choral music from Bonn on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a  “Deutsche Welle Festival Concert” from Bonn. You’ll hear Beethoven’s “Cantata on the Death of Joseph the 2nd”. You’ll also  an excerpt from Ferdinand Ries’ oratorio “The Triumph of Belief”. 

Thursday May 9: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts 2018-19 (DWF 18-19)  

Beethoven: Made in the Rhineland

Robin Johannsen, soprano; Marion Eckstein, alt; Corby Welch, tenor; Matthias Winckler, bass;

Bonn Chamber Chorus; Chorus Musicus Cologne; Orchestra Rhine Tone; Christoph Spering, conductor; 

Ferdinand Ries (1784 – 1838): Der Sieg des Glaubens (The Triumph of Belief). Oratorio (excerpt)

Dorothee Mields, soprano; Annekathrin Laabs, alto; Martin Koch, tenor; Thomas de Vries, bass;

Vox Bona Chamber Chorus of the Church of the Cross, Bonn; Orchestra l'arte del mondo;

Werner Ehrhardt, conductor

Andrea Luca Luchesi (1741-1801):  Requiem for soloists, chorus and orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cantata on the death of Joseph II for soloists, chorus and orchestra, WoO 87