Dreams that become passion and become reality with the necessary commitment – this is what the choir Ad Libitum and the ensemble Pro Brass under Heinz Ferlesch discussed musically on Friday in the parish church of Timelkam. Works were heard which, like Gregorio Allegri’s famous “Miserere”, invoke the spirit of eternity, like Eric Whitacre’s “Leonardo’s dream of his flying machine”, transform the fascination of flying into sound and which, like Marc Knopfler’s “Brothers in Arms”, evoke the hope that we fools finally realize that war is the wrong way.
Pro Brass contributed the nightmare that Werner Pircher makes tangible in the third movement of his “Fire-Water-Music”. It deals with the drama after a nuclear accident like in Chernobyl in 1986. The harmlessly naïve “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” worldview in Gustav Mahler’s “Who hath this little song invented” as a counterpoint fit in with this, as did Eriks Esenvalds’ “Stars”, which sensually conveys the endless expanse of the universe with the sound of singing glasses. The frame with “Pastime with good company” by Henry VIII and excerpts from Handel’s Fireworks Music and from his Coronation Anthems in the fine arrangements by Alfred Lauss-Lienhart made the dream of boundless joy loud.
Not only Ad Libitum and Pro Brass were completely convincing, but also Johanna Zachhuber (mezzo), Lorenz Raab (flugelhorn), Christian Mühlbacher (percussion) and Eberhard Reiter (saxophone). With the added bonus – Mendelssohn’s “Lend Us Peace” – the evening, which was so impressively put together and led by Ferlesch, ended with a great deal of hope.
Source: Nachrichten
