Concerts 2026

CANTICUM

Music from the Old Hanseatic Cities

European Hanseatic Ensemble
Manfred Cordes, conductor

Concert programme

Who is not familiar with the love poems from the Song of Solomon? Disdained by the clergy but loved by composers for their vivid language, these passages from the Bible were often used as the basis for wedding compositions. These were particularly popular in the wealthy trading cities on the Baltic Sea around 1600 and provided the local composers with a welcome source of additional income. With vocal soloists and historical instruments, the European Hanseatic Ensemble presents works from old Hanseatic cities.

Programme (German only)

The programme will be broadcast live from Gdańsk by Polskie Radio Program 2. NDR Kultur will record the concert in Lüneburg and will broadcast it on 1 November 2026 at 9.30 p.m. The programme will then be available online for 30 days.

Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 8 p.m.: Festival ORGANy PLUS+2026

Gdańsk (Poland), Franciscan St. Trinity Church

Under the auspices of consul general Karl-Matthias Klause, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
In celebration of 50 years of the Bremen–Gdańsk town twinning and 35 years of the Treaty of Good Neighbourship between Poland and Germany

Tickets: PLN 30 – 150

Tickets available online at Bilety24 and at the evening box office from 7 p.m.

Promoter: Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Kościoła Św. Trójcy „Dziedziniec” w Gdańsku
Kindly supported by Senatskanzlei der Freien Hansestadt Bremen and the Sanddorf-Stiftung

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 4 p.m.: Greifswalder Bachwoche

Greifswald, St. Marien

Tickets: € 15 / red. € 10 (children, students, holders of the KUS-Pass Greifswald as well as people with disabilities of 70 GdB or more)

Tickets online under MV Ticket and via the office of the Greifswalder Bachwoche

Promoter: Evang.-Lutherische Kirche in Norddeutschland
concert partner: Unternehmensgruppe Pommersche Diakonie

Friday, 5 June 2026, 8 p.m.

Wolfenbüttel, St.-Petrus-Kirche

Tickets: € 30 / € 25 (members) / € 15 (university students, unemployed persons) / € 5 (pupils)

Tickets online under www.kulturhaus-prinzenpalais.de and at the evening box office

Promoter: Michael Praetorius Collegium e.V. Wolfenbüttel
Kindly supported by the Sanddorf-Stiftung

Saturday, 6 June 2026, 6 p.m.: World Heritage Days Bremen 2026

Bremen, Kulturkirche St. Stephani

Tickets: € 20 / red. € 12 (students and people with disabilities of 50 GdB or more) / with Bremen-Pass: € 6

Tickets available at all Nordwest Ticket advance booking offices and online under www.nordwest-ticket.de, as well as at the Information Centre ‘Kapitel 8’, the Humboldt and Georg Büchner bookshops, the Kulturkirche offices and at the evening box office. To pre-book tickets for collection at the box office, please call +49 421 – 30 22 42.

Promoter: Kulturkirche St. Stephani Bremen
Kindly supported by Senatskanzlei der Freien Hansestadt Bremen – Bremer Welterbetage 2026, the Verein zur Förderung des Welterbes Rathaus und Roland in Bremen e.V. and the Sanddorf-Stiftung

Sunday, 7 June 2026, 5 p.m.: titans rising. ALTE MUSIK AM LIETZENSEE

Berlin, Ev. Kirche Am Lietzensee

Admission free, donations welcome

Promoter: Titans Rising Verein für Alte Musik Berlin e.V.

Saturday, 4 July 2026, 7 p.m.: All’improvviso Festival Gliwice

Gliwice (Poland), GZUT

Tickets: PLN 63,60 / red. PLN 37,10

Tickets available online at www.ticketmaster.pl

Promoter: All’improvviso Festival Gliwice
Kindly supported by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation

Sunday, 5 July 2026, 7.30 p.m.: Starosądecki Festiwal Muzyki Dawnej – Festiwal Omnia Beneficia

Stary Sącz (Poland), Church of St. Elisabeth

Information on ticket sales will follow

Promoter: Festiwal Omnia Beneficia
Kindly supported by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation

Tuesday, 7 July 2026, 7.30 p.m.

Rostock, Universitätskirche

Tickets: advance sale from 11 May 2026: € 15 / red. € 10, at the evening box office: € 17 / red. € 12, free admission for holders of the “Kulturticket”
(red.: students and people with disabilities of 50 GdB or more)

Tickets at Pressezentrum Rostock, online under www.mvticket.de and at the evening box office from 6.30 p.m.

Promoter: Orlando e.V.
Kindly supported by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and in cooperation with the Rostock University of Music and Drama