Klangkultur at the Hofburgkapelle

Wiener Kammersymphonie, Les Orpheistes and Chorus ALEA

Date

26 November, 15 and 22 December 2026, 7:30 pm each

Venue

Hofburgkapelle, Hofburg-Schweizerhof, 1010 Vienna

Running time

60 to 70 minutes, no interval

The Hofburgkapelle is one of the oldest music rooms in Vienna, first documented in 1296 and rebuilt by the Habsburgs across the centuries: Romanesque under Albert I, Gothic under Frederick III, late Baroque under Maria Theresa. What remains is an acoustic that carries small forces without inflating them.

Klangkultur Wien gives three evenings here, each placed deliberately beside the expected. Chamber music in its original scoring, a soloist who brings his instrument to a repertoire never written for it, and a Christmas programme reaching from a composing emperor to Bruckner.

Programme

Thursday, 26 November 2026, 7:30 pm

J. Sibelius: Valse triste, Op. 44/1, arranged for saxophone and string quintet
A. Dvořák: Scherzo, Allegro vivace, from the String Quintet in G major, Op. 77
W. A. Mozart: Larghetto and Allegretto con Variazioni from the Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, arranged for saxophone and string quintet
C. M. von Weber: Romanza and Alla Polacca from the Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 74, arranged for saxophone and string quintet

Tuesday, 15 December 2026, 7:30 pm. Haydn and Bach: Violin Concertos

L. van Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, Op. 84
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
J. Haydn: Overture to Armida, Hob. XXVIII:12
J. Haydn: Violin Concerto in G major, Hob. VIIa:4
L. van Beethoven: Allegretto scherzando, Tempo di Menuetto and Allegro vivace from Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93

Tuesday, 22 December 2026, 7:30 pm. Christmas Concert

L. van Beethoven: Die Himmel rühmen, Op. 48/4, for choir and ensemble
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
Emperor Leopold I: work for ensemble
Two Christmas carols, for choir and ensemble
W. A. Mozart: Divertimento in B flat major, K. 137
G. Mahler: Piano Quartet movement in A minor
F. Schubert: Credo from the Mass in G major, D. 167, for choir and strings
A. Bruckner: two motets

Programme subject to change.

Performers

26 November

Wiener Kammersymphonie, string quintet
Ola Asdahl Rokkones, saxophone. The Norwegian soloist returns to Vienna after last season's success, having appeared with the Arctic Philharmonic, the Bergen Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra, among others.

15 December

Wiener Kammersymphonie, string quintet
Cornelia Gradwohl, violin. The Salzburg-born violinist specialises in early music, plays baroque violin regularly and has taught at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt since 2007.