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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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June 28, 16:30
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France
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Abbaye, Saint-Michel en Thiérache 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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June 19, 20:30
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The Netherlands
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Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam Spem in alium – Dance production +
In this unique and exclusive project, forty Vox Luminis singers enter into a dialogue with the refined dance language of Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara. Teshigawara is a master at translating classical music into dance. Together they perform the haunting Spem in alium, complementing this with other gems of English music from the 16th to the 20th century. An experience that promises to be both impressive and stunningly beautiful.
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June 18, 20:30
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The Netherlands
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Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam Spem in alium – Dance production +
In this unique and exclusive project, forty Vox Luminis singers enter into a dialogue with the refined dance language of Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara. Teshigawara is a master at translating classical music into dance. Together they perform the haunting Spem in alium, complementing this with other gems of English music from the 16th to the 20th century. An experience that promises to be both impressive and stunningly beautiful.
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June 15, 16:00
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Thomaskirche, Leipzig TOP 50 Bach Cantatas VII +
Bachfest Leipzig presents for the second time the Cantata Ring. For six months, people around the world were able to vote to determine the top 50 Bach cantatas. More than 7,000 votes were cast, and the results – kept secret until the festival – will be presented from 12 to 17 June 2026 in the style of a radio programme: starting with No. 50 and working down to No. 1!
Vox Luminis is one of six privileged ensembles to perform this project and will present cantatas ranked 24th to 21st. |
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June 13, 13:00
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Germany
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Nikolaikirche, Leipzig TOP 50 Bach Cantatas III +
Bachfest Leipzig presents for the second time the Cantata Ring. For six months, people around the world were able to vote to determine the top 50 Bach cantatas. More than 7,000 votes were cast, and the results – kept secret until the festival – will be presented from 12 to 17 June 2026 in the style of a radio programme: starting with No. 50 and working down to No. 1!
Vox Luminis is one of six privileged ensembles to perform this project and will present cantatas ranked 42nd to 38th. |
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June 7, 17:00
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Germany
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St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne Ein deutsches Barockrequiem +
For his deutsches Requiem, Brahms was able to compose his own liturgy, as the Lutherans were not familiar with the Mass for the Dead. Vox Luminis follows its own path, exploring well-known and lesser-known pages of its repertoire, working with the same texts that Brahms used.
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