Pablo Heras-Casado dirigiert Anton Bruckners f-Moll-Messe

In the organizer's words:

Program: Anton Bruckner, Mass No. 3 in F minor

Performers:
Erika Baikoff, soprano
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, alto
Sebastian Kohlhepp, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass
SWR Vocal Ensemble
WDR Radio Choir
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

When Anton Bruckner wrote his Mass in F minor, he was going through difficult months. In the spring of 1867, private and professional defeats had driven him to the brink of madness, by his own admission. The Linz cathedral organist suffered a nervous crisis from which he had to recover in a sanatorium. When he was able to resume his work in August of the same year, he composed as if in a frenzy. Delighted by his regained creative power, he succeeded in a stroke of genius: a mass of symphonic proportions and shattering expressiveness, which was to go down in music history as his "Great". For the SWR Vokalensemble, this season's performance of Bruckner's last mass setting is a reunion with conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln and the SWR Symphonieorchester.

Price information:

Reduced tickets for 7 € for pupils and students. Seats for wheelchair users and people with disabilities can be booked by calling 07221 929 21321.