Walkenried cloister concerts

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Walkenried Monastery - double-nave cloister today a concert hall in the UNESCO World Heritage (2010)

The Walkenried cloister concerts have been the annual music festival of the Walkenried monastery in the Lower Saxony district of Göttingen since 1983 .

The location of the Walkenried Monastery has been part of the Upper Harz Water Management UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010 .

Preliminary work

From 1980 onwards, extensive renovation and restoration measures began in the Walkenried monastery , whereby the cloister , which had been open until then, got its leaded glass windows . By installing warm air underfloor heating in the double cloister, this area of ​​the monastery could be used culturally for the first time all year round .

These building measures under the direction of the then senior district director Friedrich-Karl Böttcher, who accompanied the reconstruction until his retirement in 1999, laid the foundation stone for the cloister concerts.

history

The Walkenried cloister concerts were brought into being in 1983. The three classical concerts in the first season became a music festival with regularly up to 20 events. In recent years, in addition to the variety of concerts, there have also been literary readings with and without musical accompaniment . The genre now includes classical , salon music , gospel , folk , swing , jazz , a cappella and pop music .

Walkenried Monastery - Kreuzgarten

The demanding season starts in May and ends in December. Over the course of a year, two to four events are offered monthly in the double cloister of the Walkenried monastery and in summer also in the Kreuzgarten . Every season, up to 5,000 people attend the Walkenried cloister concerts.

From 1999 to 2014, Friedrich-Karl Böttcher was the artistic director . As of 2015, the Osterode am Harz district, as the sponsor, and the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation, as the owner of the monastery, have given an advisory board the management of the concerts. For artistic director of Walkenrieder Cloister Concerts Thomas Krause was appointed.

Walkenried Monastery - Chapter House

The 32nd cloister concerts brought some innovations to the events. In 2015, for the first time, a concert meditation , an afternoon concert at 3 p.m. with coffee and cake, a concert in the chapter house of the monastery and a walking concert with a buffet were offered .

For the first time in 2015, the Walkenried cloister concerts together with the Cistercian Museum and the Central-Lichtspiele Herzberg am Harz organized the KINO IM KLOSTER - OpenAir in the Kreuzgarten. The cult film The Name of the Rose was shown combined with a themed tour of the places that also play a role in the film.

The location of the Walkenried Monastery has been part of the Upper Harz Water Management UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010 .

Walkenried monastery offers gastronomy (monastery café).

Artist (selection)

The Walkenried cloister concerts have been designed by top-class artists and personalities since it was founded, such as:

Abegg Trio , Hermann Prey , Margaret Price , Thomas Quasthoff , Ludwig Güttler , Alban Berg Quartet , Pepe Romero , Norbert Blüm , Göttingen Symphony Orchestra , Gerhard Schöne , Thekla Carola Wied , Götz Alsmann , Dieter Bellmann , Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt, Elke Heidenreich , Captain Cook and his singing saxophones , Henryk Böhm ( baritone ) and Gerrit Zitterbart , Bach Orchestra of the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig , Jochen Kowalski and Young Baroque Orchestra Berlin, Philharmonic Brass Dresden, Giora Feidman and Gitanes Blondes , Qntal , Ulrike Kriener and Gudrun Haag ( harp ), Wind soloists of the Staatskapelle Berlin , vocal ensemble VocaMe, Ralf Bauer and Emil Rovner ( violoncello ), Central German Chamber Philharmonic , Ensemble Frauenkirche with Matthias Grünert ,

Ensemble Amarcord , Denis Wittberg ( singer ) and his shellac soloists, Braunschweig State Orchestra with baroque cast, Dresden Kapellolisten , Father Anselm Grün with Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen and Oskar Göpfert, Felix Klieser and Michael Schäfer, Andreas Hartmann with the Thuringian Salon Quintet, David Orlowsky Trio , Jörg Faßmann with Lenka Matějáková and Cornelia Osterwald "Baroque Trio Dresden-Leipzig", Chursächsische Capelle Leipzig , Braunschweig State Orchestra in large cast, Viva Voce , New York Polyphony ( vocal music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance ), Los Romeros , Anne Schoenen and band "Die SCHOENEN ", Günther Maria Halmer and Jörg Fuhrländer ( accordion ), Bolero Berlin - Berliner Philharmoniker with a difference, Wilhelm Bruns with the Parforcehorn ensemble" Les Amazones ",

Central German Chamber Orchestra , Ulrich Pleitgen , Gingganz Puppet Theater, Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester , Schola Gregoriana Pragensis ( Prague ) and Buddhist monks from the Tendai school "Gjosan-rjù" ( Japan ), Gregor Gysi and Friedrich Schorlemmer , Loh-Orchester Sondershausen , Bernd Kaftan ( Actors ) and Michael Schäfer ( piano ), Giora Feidman and Rastrelli Cello Quartet , Basta (a cappella group) , Rapalje (Celtic Folk Music), Gunter Schoß (speaker) and Frank Fröhlich (guitar), Erzgebirgsensemble Aue , Salonorchester Cappuccino , Capellchor Hall of the Ev. University of Church Music with the Bach Consort, Gitanes Blondes , Sky du Mont , Frank Vitzhum ( countertenor ) and Julian Behr ( lute ), Till Brönner and Dieter Ilg , Thomanerchor Leipzig , MozART group, Stefan Gwildis ,

Gamain (Celtic Folk Music), Christian Funke ( violin ) and Stefan Altner ( organ ), Klenke-Quartet , Anne Schierack (vocals) and Frank Fröhlich (guitar), vocal ensemble Niniwe , brass band Federspiel , Peter Hahne , Avi Avital and Aydar Gaynullin, Braunschweig State Orchestra with Salomo Schweizer , Volker Heißmann and Pavel Sandorf Quartet , wind soloists of the Gewandhausorchester zu Leipzig, Giora Feidman with Enrique Ugarte and Torsten Münchow , GSO with Niklas Liepe , Paul Maar and Capella Antiqua Bambergensis , Tine Thing Helseth and ensemble "tenThingeth" , Moscow Cathedral Choir , Gismo Graf Trio, Ensemble International, Andrea Sawatzki , Canadian Brass , Christoph Grohmann . Andreas English ,

Many of the artists and personalities mentioned here have been coming to the Walkenried Monastery for a guest performance for years.

Cinema in the monastery

The KINO IM KLOSTER - OpenAir in Kreuzgarten has existed since summer 2015. The following films were shown in the Walkenried Monastery:

CD recordings

The excellent acoustics in the double-nave cloister have also been used for CD recordings.

Sponsorship

The Walkenried Cloister Concerts have been a series of events since 1983 in the Osterode am Harz district in cooperation with the Walkenried Monastery Support Group . All events are only supported by the entrance fees and sponsors . Public funds are not used for this.

In 2015, the owner of the Walkenried Monastery property , the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz (SBK) Foundation , took over responsibility for the cloister concerts from the Osterode district in the Harz region.

The Walkenried cloister concerts are sponsored by the Regional Association of Southern Lower Saxony .

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Upper Harz Water Management is a World Heritage Site German UNESCO Commission e. V. (August 2010)
  2. ↑ Walkenried in paintings: The double cloister
  3. ↑ For decades worked for the monastery - ceremony for the departing director Friedrich-Karl Böttcher. Advisory board will support the design of the cloister concerts in the future. ( Harz Kurier , December 3, 2014)
  4. ↑ KlosterCafé Walkenried
  5. ↑ Special concert in the chapter house
  6. ^ Image Concert GmbH / Herzberg am Harz
  7. ↑ Gewandhaus Wind Quintet
  8. ↑ Concert live recording from June 26, 1998 in the Walkenried monastery
  9. ↑ The district of Osterode am Harz merged on November 1, 2016 with the then district of Göttingen to form the new district of Göttingen with Göttingen as the district town.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 59 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 9 ″  E