GREETINGS FROM THE BAROCK FESTIVAL MELK ABBEY
Michael Schade & Friends: Love can do it all

FROM THE MELK COLLEGIATE CHURCH AND PIELACH CASTLE

Although, due to the current situation, the production of the International Baroque Festival Melk 2020 will not be presented in its traditional format, the special circumstances can allow for the perception of nature and culture under a new light. Austria, spring 2020: The experiences of involuntary hermitage and social and cultural abstinence, due to the lockdown, have left a deep impression.

Therefore, at the beginning of the film there are images of the empty streets and squares; from these impressions the reawakening from the bizarre "spring sleep" emerges: a new experience, a new attention for what surrounds us. Wachau 2020: It is the 20th anniversary of the "World Cultural Heritage Wachau". To mark this occasion, Kammersänger Michael Schade and his four musical friends will travel to selected places on the World Heritage Trail through the Wachau, and then come together to make music in the collegiate church of the Benedictine Abbey of Melk.
In the heart of the overwhelming cultural landscape of the Wachau, the artists, who have been musically "silent" for weeks, will awake their world of sounds and tones again: trough their instruments and nature around them, they will rediscover their musical language.

The program: English Renaissance and Baroque music performed by a chamber music consort: tenor, lute, harpsichord / organ, flute, viola da gamba. This takes into account the current restrictions, while it also offers the opportunity for a more spiritual experience, which is also what the production intents to reflect.

WORKS

• Henry Purcell - Music for a while
• anonym (17 Jhdt.) - Witches Dance
• John Dowland - Fine Knacks for Ladies
• John Dowland - Now, o now
• John Dowland - Can She excuse my wrongs?
• Agnes Palmisano & Trio - Es tuad ma lad
• John Dowland - Lachrimae Pavan
• John Dowland - Come, heavy sleep
• Agnes Palmisano & Trio - Kumm tiafa Schlaf
• anonym (17. Jhdt.) - Adsonn’s Masque
• anonym (17. Jhdt.) - Cupararee or Graysin
• John Dowland - Prelude
• John Dowland - I must complain
• John Dowland - Say Love if ever thou did‘st find
• Tobias Hume - Love’s Farewell
• Tobias Hume - Pollish Ayre
• Thomas Robinson/John Danyel - Passamezzo Gaylard
• John Dowland - What poor astronomers they are
• Matthew Locke - Suite e-Moll
• Robert Johnson - Have you seen but a white lily grow
• Georg Buxhofer & Lena Kuchling - Come again
• John Dowland - Come again
• Richard Smarte - Mounsiers Allman
• Henry Purcell - Now that the sun has veiled its light

WITH

Tenor: KS Michael Schade
Lute: David Bergmüller
Recorder: Rahel Stoellger
Viola da gamba: Pierre Pitzl
Harpsichord, organo & musical direction: Stefan Gottfried

Agnes Palmisano & Trio
Singer: Agnes Palmisano
Contra-guitar: Daniel Fuchsberger
Schrammelharmonika: Andreas Teufel
Violin: Aliosha Biz

Lena Kuchling & Georg Buxhofer
Singer: Lena Kuchling
E-Bass: George Buxhofer

SPECS

Running Time: 79:00
Directed by: Volker Werner
Format: Full HD, 16:9 | Color
Sound: Stereo + Dolby 5.1
Co-production: ORF III, 3sat & SCARLATTI Arts international s.l.
Year: 2020
Distributed by: UNITEL