On Easter Sunday, 5 April 2026, Fux will once again be featured in the programme of the Psalm 2026 festival in Graz: several arias from the oratorio La Regina Saba, which was recently published in the edition ‘Johann Joseph Fux – Werke’ published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, will be performed.

5 April 2026, 7 p.m.
Graz, Helmut List Halle

Maria Ladurner (soprano)
Meili Li (countertenor)
Valerio Contaldo (tenor)
Recreation - Das Orchester
Alfredo Bernardini (direction, oboe)

The Mass K 26 (Missa primitiva) can be heard on 15 November 2025 at Heiligenkreuz Abbey, as part of the liturgy at 9:30 a.m. This is likely to be the first modern performance of the work. The mass for soloists, four-part choir, trumpets with timpani, violins and continuo was composed before 1720. It was relatively widespread, including in Dresden, as evidenced by a copy of the score with annotations by Jan Dismas Zelenka, who was known to have been a pupil of Fux in Vienna. The performance material was prepared at the Fux Research Centre of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Under the direction of Johannes Weiss, students from the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts, Institute for Early Music, will perform this mass. We are very grateful for this cooperation with the mdw.

On Good Friday, 18 April 2025, excerpts from the Sepolcro oratorio ‘Il Testamento di nostro Signor Gesù Cristo sul Calvario’ (1726) were performed in Graz. The performance material was created by the Fux edition of the ÖAW.

Helmut-List-Halle Graz, 7 pm

Recreation Orchestra under the direction of Michael Hofstetter
Soloist:innen: Miriam Kutrowatz (soprano) and Constantin Zimmermann (countertenor)

Programme:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Johann Joseph Fux: Sinfonia and arias from ‘Il Testamento di nostro Signor Gesù Cristo sul Calvario’

Our next Fux concert will take place on 30 May 2024 at 7 pm in the Festsaal of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The programme includes the oratorio "La Regina Saba", the first completely preserved dramatic work by J. J. Fux. Composed in 1705, while Leopold I was still alive, it shows the composer from an unusual angle, which contrasts somewhat with his later oratorios. There is much to discover in this modern premiere. Students from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna will perform under the direction of Stefan Gottfried. A second performance took place at the Pfarrkirche Mariahilf in Graz on 2 June 2024.

For the following performance, the music material was prepared by the Fux-Arbeitsstelle of the ÖAW:

J.J. Fux, Missa Corporis Christi (K 10)

J.J. Fux, Alleluia from the motet "Paries quidem Filium" (L 43)

Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 in St. Urban, Freiburg im Breisgau, Festive Service at 11:00 a.m.

Soloists:

Jardena Flückiger, Soprano

Sybille Kamphues, Contralto

Hans-Jörg Mammel, Tenor

Kevin Gagnon, Bariton

Choir of St. Urban , Chamber orchestra St. Urban

Direction: Christian Wunsch