Boys' choir inspires with Vivaldi and Britten in Göttingen!

Boys' choir inspires with Vivaldi and Britten in Göttingen!

Göttingen, Deutschland - The excited Advent concert by the Göttingen boys' choir recently took place in the fully occupied Marienkirche in Göttingen. The event was a highlight of the pre -Christmas cultural calendar and offered a demanding program that presented two important works with the choir of Vivaldi's "four seasons" and the Cantata "St. Nicolas" by Benjamin Britten, as the reported.

The concert included an innovative choir editing of the "Four Seasons", in which Tobias Rokahr brought the right poems to the stage. Despite the inspiring idea, there were challenges: The not everyday language skills of the young singers meant that the texts were only partially understandable. This was also reinforced by the virtuoso solovioline by Yvonne Smeulers, which did not always follow Michael Krause's conducting and sometimes fell behind the choir. A closer cooperation in future performances would be desirable in order to better master such musical challenges.

View of the Göttingen Septuagint

In addition to the musical events in Göttingen, the project of the Göttingen Septuagint, also known as the "Vetus Testamentum Graecum", attracts attention. This critical edition of the Greek Old Testament, which has been published since 1908 under the direction of Alfred Rahlfs and now by Reinhard G. Kratz and Felix Albrecht, has already published 26 out of a total of 37 volumes, as the information on wikipedia . The project aims to reconstruct the oldest accessible text of the Septuagint and document their tradition, a company that underlines the importance of these ancient texts and promotes scientific examination with them.

in Göttingen, culture and science overlap, while the Advent concert and the Septuagint are important pillars of the cultural heritage and the intellectual discussion in the city.