11/25/2023, 8:00 p.m.
Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt
TICKETS: https://www.startnext.com/releasekonzert-theohohohs
On November 25, 2023, The OHOHOHS will realize a concert evening under the title "THE OHOHOHS Symphonic", the highlight of which will be the performance of all three movements of the newly written "Corona Symphony". In the rest of the program, THE OHOHOHS will deal with masterpieces of music history, from Alessandro Grandi to Verdi and Mozart to Queen, always searching for the connection of the concertante with the musical world of the present. Together with soprano Maja Bader, bass Frieder Gottwald and the OMNIAstrings Orchestra conducted by Michael Strecker, the program will be brought to the stage of Frankfurt's St. Katharinenkirche.
Symphony No.1 - "Coronasinfonie".
With their debut album "Sturm&Drang" (2021), the duo around pianist Florian Wäldele and percussionist and drummer Florian Dreßler coined the term "concert club music", describing their very own way of combining classical music with contemporary club music.
On their new album they now think this idea bigger and present their first symphonic work in their very own "OHOHOH's" manner: THE OHOHOHS Symphony No.1 - "Corona Symphony". Piano, large orchestra, vocals, contemporary beats, sampler and synthesizer,are the elements of this composition at the interface between "U- and E-music". Emotional "crowning" of the work may be the poem "Corona" (1952) by Paul Celan, sung in soprano.
The second part of the album is formed by three versions and arrangements of the piece "Miracle", an aria in which the music of the Baroque mingles with contemporary beats, sensual with rhythmic. Besides the original, there is a duet version with countertenor Andreas Scholl and Swiss soprano Maja Bader, as well as an arrangement by pianist Tamar Halperin for string quartet, harpsichord and piano, written for her husband Andreas Scholl.
11/25/2023, 8:00 p.m.
Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt
TICKETS: https://www.startnext.com/releasekonzert-theohohohs
On November 25, 2023, The OHOHOHS will realize a concert evening under the title "THE OHOHOHS Symphonic", the highlight of which will be the performance of all three movements of the newly written "Corona Symphony". In the rest of the program, THE OHOHOHS will deal with masterpieces of music history, from Alessandro Grandi to Verdi and Mozart to Queen, always searching for the connection of the concertante with the musical world of the present. Together with soprano Maja Bader, bass Frieder Gottwald and the OMNIAstrings Orchestra conducted by Michael Strecker, the program will be brought to the stage of Frankfurt's St. Katharinenkirche.
Symphony No.1 - "Coronasinfonie".
With their debut album "Sturm&Drang" (2021), the duo around pianist Florian Wäldele and percussionist and drummer Florian Dreßler coined the term "concert club music", describing their very own way of combining classical music with contemporary club music.
On their new album they now think this idea bigger and present their first symphonic work in their very own "OHOHOH's" manner: THE OHOHOHS Symphony No.1 - "Corona Symphony". Piano, large orchestra, vocals, contemporary beats, sampler and synthesizer,are the elements of this composition at the interface between "U- and E-music". Emotional "crowning" of the work may be the poem "Corona" (1952) by Paul Celan, sung in soprano.
The second part of the album is formed by three versions and arrangements of the piece "Miracle", an aria in which the music of the Baroque mingles with contemporary beats, sensual with rhythmic. Besides the original, there is a duet version with countertenor Andreas Scholl and Swiss soprano Maja Bader, as well as an arrangement by pianist Tamar Halperin for string quartet, harpsichord and piano, written for her husband Andreas Scholl.
On "Wunder", the old forms break and mix with contemporary R'n'B or the beat world of Two Step. A hybrid is born from the collision of almost classical, but no less driving piano passages and the electronic sounds. Various percussions (including a West African balafon) form a tension-filled rhythmic mesh. The basis of this composition is the examination of the music of the Baroque and the then popular form of the aria - one thinks of Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" or Purcell's "Cold Song", which was made immortal by Klaus Nomi.
The text, performed in the original version by Swiss soprano Maja Bader, was written by pianist Florian Wäldele and his wife Lydia Galonska-Wäldele. Both were inspired in turn by Rio Reiser, Hölderlin and Rilke. In addition to the original version, the album features a duet version with countertenor Andreas Scholl and Swiss soprano Maja Bader. Another version is an arrangement by the pianist Tamar Halperin for string quartet, harpsichord, piano, also sung by Andreas Scholl.
Fotos von Andreas Mechmann und Boris Blumenthal.
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