Concert of St. Florian Boys' Choir September 13, 2008

Time: 2008/9/13-2008/9/14
Venue: Beijing Concert Hall
Price: 180/280/380/480/580/880
Tel: 86-10-64177845
Web: www.piao.com.cn

TheSt. Florianer Sangerknaben (St. Florian Boys' Choir) (= SFSK) can lookback on a thousand-year-old tradition. In the olden days the Boys'Choir were responsible for providing church music at the Convent of St.Florian; today, however, they are also an internationally acclaimedconcert choir sponsored by the "Society of the Friends of St. FlorianBoys' Choir".

Thehistory of the Convent of St. Florian can be traced back to the earlyChristian burial site of Saint Florian the Martyr (304 AD). Theconvent's baroque church built by Carlo Carlone and Jakob Prandtauer isone of the most beautiful examples of Austrian architecture. Theinstitution of St. Florian Convent Boys' Choir goes back as far as 1071, at the time when monks of the Augustiner Chorherren took over the monastery.

Manymusicians have come from the ranks of the SFSK, the most famous ofthese being the composer Anton Bruckner, whose name is inseparablyconnected with St. Florian. About fifty years ago the convent closeddown its private school. Since then, the Boys' Choir still reside atthe convent but attend public schools in St. Florian where they formspecial classes suited to their needs. Until only a few decades ago,the SFSK's duties consisted solely of providing church music for theconvent. Under the musical direction of Professor Hans Bachl andConvent Director Josef Leitner they went on their first concert toursabroad and successfully took part in competitions.

Todaythe choir has many different responsibilities. Church music is still ofcentral importance. On High Holidays the SFSK join with the ConventChoir and the Convent Orchestra under the direction of ProfessorAugustinus Franz Kropfreiter in singing mass. But they are also aninternationally acclaimed choir, travelling all over the world as wellas recording CDs or frequently appearing on television. The boys havesung in world-famous music festivals as well as in famous opera houses.Since 1983, Professor Franz Farnberger has been the choir director. TheSociety of Friends of the St. Florian Boys' Choir was founded in 1996.One year later it assumed responsibility for the institution of theBoys' Choir. Large-scale rebuilding as well as modernization of theConvent's boarding school was undertaken as a result of the Society'sfinancial support as well as generous support from the ProvincialGovernment of Upper Austria.

Program
Part Ⅰ：Sound from Heaven
Hallelujah from the "Messiah" Georg Friedrich Handel
Panis angelicus Cesar Franck
Tota pulchra es Maurice Durufle
Ave Maria Franz Schubert
Jesus bleibet meine Freude Johann Sebastian Bach

Part Ⅱ："Sound of Music" by the Riverside of Danube
Chit Chat Polka Johann Strauss
Radetzky March Johann Strauss
Edelweiss Richard Rodgers
Austrian Yodeller and Schuhplattlers Traditional Austrian Songs and Dances
You Are My Heart’s Delingt form opera The Land of Smiles Franz Lehar
The Blue Danube Johann Strauss

Part Ⅲ：Musical highlights of
Das klinget so herrlich(Choir)
Der Vogelfanger bin ja (Papageno,The birdcatcher am I)
O zittre nich(Oh,tremble not) or Der Holle Rache (The vengeance of Hell)
(Queen of the Night)
O Isis und Osiris (Sarastro and choir)

“So muss allein ich bleiben”(Rosalinde, Adele,Eisenstein)
“Ich lade gern mir Gaste ein”(Orlofsky and choir)

“Im Feuerstrom der Reben” (Orlofsky,Rosalinde and choir)

Csardas (Rosalinde)
“Bruderlein und Schwesterlein”(Falke and choir)

Part Ⅳ：Global Travel of Classic Music
The Crescent Moon Rising Chinese Folk
Beautiful Homeland—Rising Chinese Folk
Sakura Japanese Folk
Santa Lucia Italian Folk
Memory From “Cats” Andrew Lloyd Webber
Briar-Rose Franz Schubert
Auld Lang Syne Scotland Folk

Encore
Jasmine Flower Chinese Folk
Chit Chat Polka Johann Strauss

RMB1000 (580*2)
RMB1000 (380*3)

Official Website: http://www.piao.com.cn