June 22, Tuesday, 9.30 pm
Sýðacýk Kaleiçi, Seferihisar
PRAYER TO GOD
amarcord
Wolfram Lattke
tenor
Martin Lattke tenor
Frank Ozimek baritone
Daniel Knauft bass
Holger Krause bass
Programme
From Leipzig to Germany... Schumann, Mendelsohn, Grieg, Saint Saens and
from others Romantic Vocal Music...
Trubadour
Neverending love
Lotus Flower
Spring Chimes
From Schumann’s 6 Songs Op 33 choir for four male voices
Carl Steinacker
To the moon
Yearning
From the composer’s Op 11, 7 song cycle for 4 male voices
August Mühling
To the little lover
From Op. 36 12 song cycle for 4 male voices
Adolf Eduard Marschner
Serenade
Felix Mendelsohn B.
Summer Song
Love and Wine
From Op 50 6 songs cycle for cour male voices
Gypsy Song
From 4 song cycle for four male voices
Carl Friedrich Zöllner
A joke for a male voice
Camile Saint seans
Summer Serenade
Edvard Grieg
Kvålins Halling
Torö liti
Han Ole
Halling
From Mandsand Album Op 30
L. Janacek
With Max Brod’s interpretation
Threat
Oh Love
Ah war, war....
Your beautiful eyes.
Choir for four male voices
Founded in 1992 by erstwhile members of St Thomas’s Boys Choir in Leipzig, Amarcord has since become one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles. Amarcord’s hallmarks include a unique tone, breathtaking homogeneity, musical authenticity, and a good dose of charm and humour. Amarcord performs a vast and highly diverse repertoire of music, from medieval plainsong to madrigals and Renaissance masses, to compositions and cycles of works of the European Romantic period and the 20th century, a cappella folksong arrangements collected from all over the world, all the way to rock, pop, soul and jazz charts.
Open to new currents in vocal music, the singers attach great importance to New Music. Works dedicated to the ensemble include those by Bernd Franke, Steffen Schleiermacher, Ivan Moody, James MacMillan, Sidney M. Boquiren, Siegfried Thiele and Dimitri Terzakis. Even though their concert programming is strongly focused on a cappella works, Amarcord also regularly performs in concert with ensembles and artists such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Lautten Compagney, Cappella Sagittariana, the Leipzig String Quartet, the KlazzBrothers, concert pianist Ragna Schirmer, the bandoneon virtuoso Per Arne Glorvigen and the brilliant violinist Daniel Hope.
Amarcord has won prizes at many international competitions, such as Tolosa in Spain, Tampere in Finland and Pohlheim in Germany, as well as the 1st Choir Olympiad in the Austrian city of Linz. In 2002, the ensemble won the German Music Competition, having joined the ranks of the BA KJK (the cream of young musicians singled out by the German Music Council for special support) two years beforehand. In 2004, Amarcord became the first group of singers to be awarded the Ensemble Prize at the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Festival. Attending master classes with the King’s Singers and the Hilliard Ensemble has given Amarcord valuable stimulus over the years.
Alongside the Gewandhaus Orchestra and St Thomas’s Boys Choir, Amarcord is now one of the leading representatives of Leipzig’s music scene in Germany and abroad. Amarcord regularly appears at important music festivals, and its frequent concert tours have taken the group not only all over Europe but also to North America - where it was enthusiastically received in cities like San Francisco, Washington, New York, Atlanta, Houston or Salt Lake City -, Central America, Australia, Japan, Israel, The Near East and Southeast Asia.
Founded by Amarcord in 1997 under the musical direction of the group, the international vocal music festival “a cappella” (www.a-cappella-festival.de) has established itself as one of the most important festivals of its kind. Held in Leipzig in spring each year, premier vocal formations such as The Real Group, The King’s Singers, Take 6 and the Hilliard Ensemble can be heard at the festival.
Amarcord’s CDs have been very successful. “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” (“Now come, saviour of the gentiles“), “Incessament” and “Hear the voice” won the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA - called "a-cappella-Oscar"). The group’s recent a cappella CD “Rastlose Liebe“ (“Restless Love”), released in 2009, was awarded with the Luxembourgian Supersonic Award and was nominated for the MIDEM Classical Award, the most important prize of the European CD market. In February 2010 Amarcord released its first CD production with an orchestral work: the reconstructed version of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Markus Passion, performed together with Dominique Horwitz and the Kölner Akademie.
www.amarcord.de
Sigacik Fortress
Background of the fortress which history, nature and technology have failed to wear out goes back to the Seljuk period. When it was destroyed by severe earthquakes, it was repaired first by Aydinogullari and then the Ottomans. Suleiman the Magnificent caused Palak Mustafa Pasha to build it by the use of the Stones brought from the ruins of Teos when its strategic position on the Aegean Sea was noticed by the Admiral Piri Reis. It dates back to 1521-1522 in its present state. Known as “Sigla” in early times, the fortress was evaluated as a naval base rather than for defensive purposes. The fortress has three gates called Kusadasi, Ayasuluk and Seferihisar. In this naval base are an outer fortress and an inner fortress which was called a ward where the soldiers lived their every day life and were trained as well as two bastions and two gates on the side facing the sea. While the second stories of some houses rise on the walls of the fortress, between the walls one may observe some house walls and windows as well as those stones brought from Teos. In the walls facing the courtyard of the bastions are embrasures measuring 1.20m x 50cm at 3m intervals, but some of them are now filled in.
The houses within the fortress are built adjacent to each other and some of them have two stories while some have only one. Most of the houses are made of mud bricks and a great majority has inner courtyards. Two-storied houses have bay windows and wooden shutters. Stairs and doors within the houses are completely wooden. In the northern part of the fortress, the upper part of the arch of Barbaros Halil Pasha is collapsed.