AVE MARIA!

Marian choir and organ music by
Bruckner, Grieg, Duruflé, Kverno, Rheinberger a. o.

Program

Josquin Desprez (ca. 1450/55-1521)
Ave Maria

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Ave Maria, WAB 6

Vytautas Miškinis (*1954)
Ave Maria Nr. 3

Dominik Giesen (*1994)
Organ improvisation
about the Gregorian Ave Maria

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Ave Maria

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Tota pulchra es

Dominik Giesen
Organ verses
about the Gregorian Ave maris stella

Trond Kverno (*1945)
Ave maris stella

Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa (1566-1613)
Ave, dulcissima Maria

Dominik Giesen
Choral variations on "Ave maris stella"
dedicated to the Emsland Chamber Choir
PREMIERE

Dominik Giesen
Organ improvisation
about the Gregorian Salve Regina

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Salve Regina

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Salve Regina, Op. 107/4

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Ave maris stella

Choir direction: Frauke Schwind, Ralf Stiewe

organ: Dominik Giesen, Choir director of Kevelaer St. Mary's Basilica

Friday, September 13, 2024

8:00 and 9:00 p.m. (Long Night of the Churches)

St. Antonius, Kirchstraße 12, D-26871 Papenburg

Saturday, September 14, 2024

7:30 p.m.

St. Bonifatius, Burgstraße 21, D-49808 Lingen (Ems)

Sunday, September 15, 2024

5:00 p.m.

St. Marien, Bavinkstraße 38, D-26789 Leer

You can find the program booklet here.

Our previous concert projects

The concert projects from the founding in 2014 to today:

• 2014 "Blessed are the dead" - choir concert for Lent

• 2014 Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas 1-3

• 2015 "Moments of doubt - sounds of confidence"

• 2015 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem

• 2015 Double choir choral music
  (together with the St. Johann Osnabrück Chamber Choir)

• 2016 English choral music

• 2016 Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas 4-6

• 2017 Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthew Passion
  (together with the Münster cantatas choir Münster)

• 2018 "O magnum mysterium"

• 2019 Maurice Duruflé - Requiem

• 2022 Choral Evensong

• 2023 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Max Reger

In September 2023, the Emsland Chamber Choir created
an oratorio concert with soloists, choir and orchestra
in Sögel and Papenburg.

The program included:

Max Reger (1873-1916)
Four motets from "Eight Spiritual Songs" Op. 138

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Offertorium "Misericordias" KV 222
Solo motet "Exsultate jubilate" KV 165
"Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento" KV 243