Together Wiener Sängerknaben

• 1 Day-dah Light (Banana Boat Song) 02:14
• 2 La Paloma 03:29
• 3 Dona Dona 05:59
• 4 The Choir 03:51
• 5 Music for a While (Arr. Gerald Wirth for Choir, Cello and Organ) 02:50
• 6 Music Down In My Soul 04:50
• 7 Vem Kan Segla Förutan Vind 01:41
• 8 Dorogoi Dlinnoyu 05:07
• 9 O La, O Che Bon Eccho 01:31
• 10 La speranza 04:39
• 11 Niška Banja 02:32
• 12 Sesivuma Sigiya 01:53
• 13 Dreaming of Home and Mother - Ryoshu - Song Bie - Li Ge 04:43
• 14 Kojo no tsuki 03:10
• 15 Raghupati Raghav Raj Ram 03:21
• 16 Man kunto maula 03:46
• 17 Üsküdar'a Gider Iken 04:09
• 18 On The Road Again 03:16
• 19 Wellerman 02:23
• Total Runtime 01:05:24

Info for Together

The Corona pandemic has turned life upside down. The enemy is tiny, elusive. It can only be fought together. The Vienna Boys' Choir have chosen songs that deal with cohesion, give hope and courage, and show what music can do. They include hits like La Paloma and Dona dona. These are songs that have migrated; music with a migration background. People know and love them all over the world, and they are always sung with the same message - Together.

The programme begins with a piece about a choir rehearsal. The singers have to get together before they can really sing together. The journey starts with a work song at dawn, the Banana Boat Song. From the Caribbean it goes eastwards, towards the sun, via Europe and Asia to New Zealand. The programme ends with the "Wellerman", the shanty that stands for the mood in the Corona pandemic, which tells of the longing wait for the supply ship. The Boys' Choir dismiss their audience with Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again".

Wiener Sängerknaben
Manolo Cagnin, Kapellmeister
Oliver Stech, Kapellmeister
Gerald Wirth, Künstlerische Leitung
Gäste:
Janoska Ensemble
Gerhard Reiter, Percussion
Andreas Huber, Percussion
Hartmut Pfannmüller, Percussion
Jörg Ulrich Krah, Cello
Jeremy Joseph, Truhenorgel
Dieter Strehly, Shakuhachi
Ming Wang, Guzheng

Vienna Boys Choir
Boys have been singing at Vienna's Imperial Chapel since 1296. In 1498, Maximilian I (HRR) moved his court to Vienna, lock, stock, and choir, thus founding the “Hofmusikkapelle” (Chapel Imperial), and the Vienna Boys Choir. Over the centuries, the Viennese Court attracted great musicians like Isaac, de Monte, Fux, Caldara, Gluck, Salieri, Mozart, and Bruckner; Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn, and Franz Schubert were themselves choir boys. Until 1918, the boys sang exclusively for the court. In the 1920s, the choir was reestablished as a private organisation. Since 1926, 2482 Vienna Boys Choir has sung 1000 tours in 97 different countries. Gerald Wirth is the its Artistic Director, and its president.

Today, there are 100 choristers between the ages of nine and fourteen, divided into four touring choirs. Each choir spends nine to eleven weeks of the academic year on tour. Together, the choirs give around 300 concerts each year, attended by almost half a million spectators around the world. The choir regularly tours Europe, Asia and Australia, and the Americas. The choir’s first journey to Chile to place in 1936.

On Sundays, the boys perform with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Vienna State Opera Chorus in Vienna’s Imperial Chapel, as they have done since 1498. In 2012, the choir opened its own concert hall, MuTh; the state-of-the art facility seats 400 and has proven highly popular with both artists and audience.

The choir’s repertoire includes everything from medieval to contemporary music. Motets and lieder form the core of the touring repertoire, as do the choir’s own arrangements of Viennese music. The choir also performs children’s operas and world music. The first ever sound recording of the choir was made on a wax cylinder in 1907; since then, the boys have recorded 43 shellacks, 55 singles, 128 LPs and 150 CDs on every major label. In 2015, the choir signed a longterm deal with Deutsche Grammophon. The first CD was released in 2015. 26 films and 17 TV documentaries attest to the choir’s international appeal. In 2008, the choir began a collaboration with New York-based filmmaker Curt Faudon; since then, three major music films have been released; a fourth, “Good Shepherds”, is in production.


The Vienna Boys Choir performs with major orchestras, such as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti (honorary member of the Chapel Imperial), Andrés Orozco Estrada, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young. A particular highlight are the appearances at the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's New Year’s Concert. In 2012 and 2016, the boys performed under the baton of Mariss Jansons.

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