The Vienna Boys Choir 2015 Beijing Concert

Published on Aug 24, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Saturday, October 3, 2015

Prices: 180, 280, 400, 520, 600, 680, 880

Features: Vienna Choir Boys is a choir of trebles and altos based in Vienna. It is one of the best known boys' choirs in the world. On October 3rd, the Vienna Choir Boys 2015 Beijing Concert will stage in Concert Hall of NCPA.

PROGRAM(subject to change)

First half: SILK ROAD & WSK- long historical cultural tradition
Henri Dumont Salve Regina
SILKROAD Sus Xatin(Afghanistan）
SILKROAD üsküdara(Turkey)
Yun Que-Lark(XinJiang)
SILKROAD Jog wa (India)
VOLKSLIEDER Leutl miasst lustig sein
CROCE,G O Sacrum convivium
MONTEVERDI,C Ave Maria
WIRTH We Dream Together
Strau J Tausend und eine Nacht Walzer
SCHUBERT,F. Die Forelle
SCHUBERT,F. Widerspruch
HAYDN J Abendgebet
CALDARA,A Ego sum panis vivus
VOLKSLIEDER Tradigister Jodler

Second half:TOURING THE VIENNA RING ROAD
Strau J Bitte Schon Polka
MENDELSSOHN,F. Bunte Schlangen zweigezüngt" aus Sommernachtstraum"
CH.FOLKSSONGS Xian Hua-Bouquet for the Brave(He-Pei)
Mozart W A Die ihr des unermesslichenWeltalls Schopfer ehrtpfer ehrt
Mozart W A Sub tuum praesidium
CH.FOLKSSONGS Yüt Gwong Gwong
VERDI,G. Che faceste Dite su
Johann Strauss Radetzky March

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Vienna Choir Boys is a choir of trebles and altos based in Vienna. It is one of the best known boys' choirs in the world. The boys are selected mainly from Austria, but also from many other countries.

The choir is a private, not-for-profit organization. There are approximately 100 choristers between the ages of ten and fourteen. The boys are divided into four touring choirs, named after Austrian composers Bruckner, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, which combined perform about 300 concerts each year before almost 500,000 people. Each group tours for about nine to eleven weeks.

The choir is the modern-day descendant of the boys' choirs of the Viennese Court, dating back to the late Middle Ages. The choir was, for practical purposes, established by a letter from Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg on 7 July 1498, instructing court officials to employ a singing master, two basses and six boys. Jurij Slatkonja became the director of the ensemble.

The role of the choir (numbering between 14 and 20) was to provide musical accompaniment for the church mass Additionally, the Haydn brothers were members of the St. Stephen's Cathedral choir, directed at the time by Georg Reutter II who used this choir in his duties for the imperial court which at the time had no boy choristers of its own.

Over the centuries, the choir has worked with many composers, including Heinrich Isaac, Hofhaimer, Biber, Fux, Caldara, Gluck, Salieri, Mozart, Franz Schubert and Bruckner.