前半の第一部はアクロアマ・アニマータ室内合奏団の演奏で、ブランデンブルク協奏曲第3番、管弦楽組曲第2番、チェンバロ協奏曲第3番が演奏されました。いずれもよく知られたバッハの合奏曲です。
休憩後の後半はソリストと我々合唱が参加して、カンタータを2曲歌いましたが、観客が入った会場はオケ合わせの時と違って歌いやすく感じました。特に第4番の「キリストは死の縄目に縛られ」は今の力量ではこれ以上ないくらいの出来で歌い切ることができて、指揮者の重見先生からも「パーフェクト！」と握手をもらいました。第80番「神は我らが砦」の第1曲はさらに声楽的な技量が求められる曲で、課題は残ったというのが率直な気持です。アンコールには東北の被災者の方々を思い、会場全員で「ふるさと」を歌いちょっとした感動が会場を包んでいたと思います。
ドイツの合奏団からは記念のおみやげに彼らのCDをいただきました。合奏団を率いるアキ・シュミット氏のお母さんは日本人で、念願の日本デビューが叶ってとても喜ばれていたようです。彼らの今後の日程を見ると23日に京都、24日に鳴門で演奏会を行うようです。
Yesterday’s concert was successfully over. I was really surprised to see that the premise, Yodobashi Church, was almost full with the audience. I had tried to arrange a few additional tickets for visiting friends the day before, and I was told to hold on because the on-site tickets were getting scarce.
The concert began with well-known Bach’s chamber music by Acroama Animata namely Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Suite No. 2 and Harpsichord Concerto No. 3.
In the second part after the intermission, the soloist singers and our choir joined them to sing two cantatas. I think we managed to sing “Christ lag in Todesbanden” BWV4 in the fullest of our current ability, and the conductor Shigemi actually shook my hands later telling me “perfect!” On the other hand, “Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott” BWV80 truly required us a higher skill of singing in its first piece, and I felt frankly that our target to shoot still remained. We sang “Furusato” together with the audience in the encore with the thought for those who suffered in 3.11 disaster in northeast Japan, and there was a moment where a heart-moving sense filled the entire church.
One of the leaders of the orchestra, Aki Schmitt has a Japanese mother who seemed very much pleased to have realized their debut in Japan, and according to their schedule, they plan to have concert in Kyoto on the 23rd and in Naruto on the 24th.
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