Herne (epd). Under the motto “Reduce – Reuse – Recycle”, the Early Music Days in Herne from November 14th to 17th are dedicated to musical reuse. The program includes nine concerts with around 160 international musicians on the Ruhr, as Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) announced on Sunday as co-organizer of the classical music festival. Popular materials and ideas from the Middle Ages to early classical times, which were recycled, further processed and embellished by well-known masters such as Monteverdi and Bach, would be performed.
One of the festival highlights is the Mozart opera “Idomeneo” in the rarely performed original Munich version from 1781 with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Zurich Sing-Akademie. The B Rock Orchestra from Belgium also presents Bach’s appropriation of Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” in the form of the cantata “Tilge, Höchster, meine Sinen”. The Italian orchestra “Arsenale Sonoro” plays a medley of two passion oratorios that were written at the same time around 1700 by the two rival composers Giacomo Antonio Perti and Giacomo Cesare Predieri and later mixed together to form a best-of, it is said.
