Festival concert to open the 85th Warnemünder Woche
The 85th anniversary was celebrated with the traditional Niege Ümgang parade and the subsequent stage program in the Kurhausgarten. Warnemünder Woche officially opened yesterday morning. In the evening, the festival concert attracted numerous visitors to the Warnemünde Evangelical Church. Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Fanny Hensel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were musically on the program.
The Warnemünder Kantorei organized the festive concert together with Mecklenburg chamber soloists as well as the soprano Antje Rux from Berlin, Ruth Geigle-Bucksch (alto) as well as tenor Shino Choi from Rostock and Maik Gruchenberg (bass) from Halle. The cantor Sven Werner took over the musical direction. Thematically appropriate Warnemünder Woche He selected pieces related to water for the festive concert - such as “Vineta” by Johannes Brahms, which is about the legend of the sunken city. In the “Vineta” poem by Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827), set to music by Brahms, the wave-shaped choral movement symbolizes the sea that stands between the inaccessible, sunken city and those viewing it. In Brahms's work, water was seen as an insurmountable obstacle, and subsequently in the piece “Le Banquet Céleste” by the French composer and organist Olivier Messiaen as a life-giving drop. The choir and soloists, supported by the orchestra, presented Fanny Hensel's song of praise “My soul is silence” with powerful voices, before the concert concluded with the Coronation Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, celebrated the birth of her son Sebastian with the cantata Lobgesang.
On behalf of the Rostock & Warnemünde Tourism Office, Ulrike Döring, head of the office, welcomed the guests Warnemünder Woche, the public. “In the coming days, Rostock and the seaside resort of Warnemünde will be presenting to the public a sporting and cultural event that impressively symbolizes the spirit of the Hanseatic, port and sports city of Rostock: diverse, international and cosmopolitan. There is a lot to celebrate this year: It all started with a regatta in 1926 in which 47 boats took part. Find it today Warnemünder Woche is taking place for the 85th time. 47 boats became several hundred boats, and over time it developed into a colorful and diverse summer festival on land. We are also celebrating an anniversary here. Today the “Niege Ümgang” is colorful and loud for the 20th time Warnemünder Woche opened.” She praised the voluntary commitment of the many helpers Warnemünder Woche. “This is how the 85th edition of the Warnemünder Woche "It can only be successful because it has been a joint effort of many hard-working and committed people for many decades and I very much hope that it will stay that way for a long time," she said.
