Opening concert: Between the Middle Ages and Modernity

Ulrike Döring emphasized in her welcome that the Warnemünder Woche has always stood for togetherness, sport and culture - this year too, despite the reduced number of cultural events and fewer sailors. Never before have you been so happy Warnemünder Woche to be able to take place and to start again after a year without the event. “I would particularly like to thank the many colleagues who do most of their work on a voluntary basis. Several hundred of them use their free time over these nine days to make the event possible on water and on land. And some work on preparations all year round. They are doing great work and have never lost their optimism and confidence in the past few months. “That deserves the greatest recognition,” said Ulrike Döring.

The two jazz musicians Schmiedt and Klemm, together with the organist Karl Scharnweber, presented monophonic songs from the Middle Ages as well as chorales, which were revised and interpreted in a contemporary way by the musicians in 2019. The title of the program, which included ten pieces, was the cycle “The Song of Songs” – a universal and biblical theme.

From the gallery, the trio's almost meditative music filled the church interior. Thomas Klemm played with two piccolo flutes at the same time, the sound of which was reminiscent of birdsong, switching back and forth between the tenor saxophone and various flutes in the pieces. Wolfgang Schmiedt elicited spherical, sophisticated, shimmering tones from his guitar. Karl Scharnweber, a trained church musician from Rostock, joined in with the powerful sound of the organ.