This is how the friends, companions, students and grandchildren of the composer who died on April 10, 2019 felt.
Vera Kral put together a program in which Sulzer’s music was embedded in a “beautiful-sounding” environment. The first violinist of the Bruckner Orchestra, along with recorder player Michael Oman, harpsichordist Martina Oman and violinist Ute Gillesberger, invited students to make music together and added young musicians to the ensemble who grew up in the spirit of Sulzer at the music high school in Linz and at the Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering: Vera Dickbauer (cello), Sarah Bruderhofer (double bass), Johanna Rosa Falkinger (soprano) and Clara Nagl (viola).
Together they played Mozart’s F major Divertimento KV 138, Sammartini’s F major recorder concerto, a fine cantata from Telemann’s “Harmonical Worship Service” and an aria from his opera “The Patient Socrates”. There are also two works by Sulzer: the “Concertante Invention for recorder and strings” op. 409, which the dedicatee Michael Oman appropriated perfectly. Johanna Rosa Falkinger convinced with Sulzer’s soprano solo “Poème gregorien” op. 90, but she was just as enthusiastic with the Telemann arias and the “Alleluja” from Mozart’s “Exultate, jubilate”, KV 165, as an encore.
Source: Nachrichten