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August 5, 21:00
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Spain
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Catedral-Basílica de la Asunción, Mondoñedo Motets – J.S. Bach +
Bach’s motets constitute one of the most daring and impressive chapters in his vocal oeuvre. In Leipzig, he found the space to realise his ideal of church music, resulting in six exceptional works for five to eight voices in which rich polyphony and incisive textual interpretation reinforce one another. Once regarded as a curiosity, they are now considered milestones within the Lutheran tradition. Vox Luminis brings this music to life in historically informed performances, with instrumental accompaniment as Bach himself would have known it.
Coproduction: Perpodium |
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August 3, 20:00
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Belgium
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Sint-Jakobskerk, Bruges Motets – J.S. Bach +
Bach’s motets constitute one of the most daring and impressive chapters in his vocal oeuvre. In Leipzig, he found the space to realise his ideal of church music, resulting in six exceptional works for five to eight voices in which rich polyphony and incisive textual interpretation reinforce one another. Once regarded as a curiosity, they are now considered milestones within the Lutheran tradition. Vox Luminis brings this music to life in historically informed performances, with instrumental accompaniment as Bach himself would have known it.
Coproduction: Perpodium |
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August 1, 18:00
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Belgium
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Eglise Saint-Sébastien, Stavelot Motets – J.S. Bach +
Bach’s motets constitute one of the most daring and impressive chapters in his vocal oeuvre. In Leipzig, he found the space to realise his ideal of church music, resulting in six exceptional works for five to eight voices in which rich polyphony and incisive textual interpretation reinforce one another. Once regarded as a curiosity, they are now considered milestones within the Lutheran tradition. Vox Luminis brings this music to life in historically informed performances, with instrumental accompaniment as Bach himself would have known it.
Coproduction: Perpodium |
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July 21, 22:30
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Austria
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Kollegienkirche, Salzburg Via Crucis, Die 14 Stationen des Kreuzwegs – F. Liszt Vox Luminis +
For the first time, Vox Luminis will perform Franz Liszt’s impressive Via Crucis. This work, dedicated to the fourteen stations of the cross (Die 14 Stationen des Kreuzwegs), is one of Liszt’s last compositions. The work occupies a special place in Liszt’s oeuvre: it is a work of great tranquillity and spiritual intensity, in which he explores the boundaries of the tonality that was common at the time. At the same time, Liszt makes explicit reference to the tradition of J.S. Bach’s chorales.
The Rosary Sonatas, also known as the Mystery Sonatas or Copper-Engraving Sonatas constitute a major work by composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, composed around 1678. Although conceived outside of any liturgical context, the work is nevertheless inspired by a religious programme: it is intended to encourage prayer and meditation on episodes from the lives of the two main characters in the Rosary, Mary and Jesus. Intimate in character, without any virtuoso effects, it is representative music imbued with a deep, mystical feeling. |
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July 20, 20:30
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Austria
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Kollegienkirche, Salzburg Mass in B minor (BWV 232) – J.S. Bach +
No one knows why, at the end of his life, a Protestant composer gathered up all his knowledge and expertise and expanded a previous arrangement of the Kyrie and the Gloria – a so-called Missa brevis from 1733 – into an entire Catholic Mass. It doesn’t matter anyway. The fact is that in this magnum opus, Bach succeeded in combining beauty and polyphonous complexity like never before. Bach at his best!
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July 19, 11:00
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Austria
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Kollegienkirche, Salzburg Mass in B minor (BWV 232) – J.S. Bach +
No one knows why, at the end of his life, a Protestant composer gathered up all his knowledge and expertise and expanded a previous arrangement of the Kyrie and the Gloria – a so-called Missa brevis from 1733 – into an entire Catholic Mass. It doesn’t matter anyway. The fact is that in this magnum opus, Bach succeeded in combining beauty and polyphonous complexity like never before. Bach at his best!
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July 16, 21:00
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France
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Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes Stabat Mater – D. Scarlatti +
Vox Luminis will be performing an anthology work, Domenico Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater.
The epicentre is the Virgin Mary’s feelings. The piece expresses her love for the Infant Jesus and her profound suffering at the crucifixion of her son. The moving text of the Stabat Mater finds in Scarlatti one of its most beautiful musical expressions, made up of extreme tensions, poetic and tender passages, mostly in slow movements. All ten voices have solo roles, and the score constantly calls for all sorts of combinations between them. This variety of combinations between forces of two to ten voices gives this score great originality and constantly offers contrasting sonorities. But the first part of the concert will also be memorable. It begins with a rhymed lamentation from the twelfth century in Old French. We will then hear Lotti’s Crucifixus, followed by emotional pieces by Monteverdi and Mazzocchi, and finally a lamentation by composer-amateur Alessandro Della Ciaia, in which Mary enters into a dialogue with the angels. |
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July 15, 12:15
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Belgium
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30CC Schouwburg, Leuven Stabat Mater – D. Scarlatti +
In Domenico Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, an anthology work, the epicentre is the Virgin Mary’s feelings. The piece expresses her love for the Infant Jesus and her profound suffering at the crucifixion of her son. The moving text of the Stabat Mater finds in Scarlatti one of its most beautiful musical expressions, made up of extreme tensions, poetic and tender passages, mostly in slow movements. All ten voices have solo roles, and the score constantly calls for all sorts of combinations between them. This variety of combinations between forces of two to ten voices gives this score great originality and constantly offers contrasting sonorities. The first part of the concert will focus on a rhymed lamentation by an anonymous composer from the twelfth century in Old French then Lotti’s Crucifixus.
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July 14, 12:15
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Belgium
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Cercle Royal Gaulois, Brussels Stabat Mater – D. Scarlatti +
In Domenico Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, an anthology work, the epicentre is the Virgin Mary’s feelings. The piece expresses her love for the Infant Jesus and her profound suffering at the crucifixion of her son. The moving text of the Stabat Mater finds in Scarlatti one of its most beautiful musical expressions, made up of extreme tensions, poetic and tender passages, mostly in slow movements. All ten voices have solo roles, and the score constantly calls for all sorts of combinations between them. This variety of combinations between forces of two to ten voices gives this score great originality and constantly offers contrasting sonorities. The first part of the concert will focus on a rhymed lamentation by an anonymous composer from the twelfth century in Old French then Lotti’s Crucifixus.
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July 5, 17:30
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France
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Basilique Notre-Dame, Beaune Mass in B minor (BWV 232) – J.S. Bach +
No one knows why, at the end of his life, a Protestant composer gathered up all his knowledge and expertise and expanded a previous arrangement of the Kyrie and the Gloria – a so-called Missa brevis from 1733 – into an entire Catholic Mass. It doesn’t matter anyway. The fact is that in this magnum opus, Bach succeeded in combining beauty and polyphonous complexity like never before. Bach at his best!
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