Zum Dank besteht Anlass! Nach einer Pandemie, nach Verwundung und Genesung und: dass wir in Freiheit feiern dürfen. Zum Beispiel ein Fest, ein Beethovenfest! Die neue – ehrwürdig alte und nun frisch renovierte – Spielstätte, das Bonner Münster bildet den Rahmen für ein Programm am Vorabend der Eröffnung des Beethovenfestes, das weit über individuelles religiöses Bekenntnis hinausgeht. Vokal- und Instrumentalmusik, Klage- und Dankgesänge vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zu Zeitgenössischem lädt uns zu gemeinsamem Empfinden ein, in dem sich »Alle Menschen« wiederfinden mögen. Eine besinnliche Voreröffnung als musikalischer Ausdruck von allem, was uns verbinden kann.
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August 13, 21:00
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France
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Eglise, Pontaumur Missa 1733 + Johann Sebastian Bach
Missa Brevis in b minor[1733] Prélude and fugue in C, BWV 547 Magnificat in D Major BWV 243 |
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August 15, 20:30
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Spain
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Palacio de Festivales, Santander Missa 1733 + Johann Sebastian Bach
Missa Brevis in b minor[1733] Magnificat in D Major BWV 243 |
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August 25, 19:30
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Germany
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Bonner Münster, Bonn Prolog: Heiliger Dankgesang + Caroline Shaw, To the Hands Osvaldo Golijov, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind Dietrich Buxtehude, Ad manus from Membra Jesu nostri Ludwig van Beethoven Heiliger Dankgesang≪ from string quartet op. 132
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August 27, 20:00
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Germany
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Dom, Verden Spem in alium + Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium Josquin Desprez: Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi John Sheppard: Media vita Robert Carver: O bone Jesu Alessandro Striggio: Ecce beatam lucem Artistic director Lionel Meunier selected the iconic motet Media Vita of Sheppard, extremely moving music here flanked by two pieces written for 40 a capella voices. Writing for 40 voices implies a series of logistical and technical challenges. Tallis and Striggio probably met in London in 1567. Tallis’s monumental 40-voice work, Spem in alium, was probably inspired by the example of Striggio. Whereas Striggio’s composition Ecce Beatam lucem was probably designed for semicircular performance, Tallis had designed his music to be heard ‘in the round’, with the listener seated within the circle of performers. The music seems as such to ‘rotate’ around a circle. |
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August 28, 18:00
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Germany
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Kreuzkirche, Bonn, Spem in alium + Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium Josquin Desprez: Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi John Sheppard: Media vita Robert Carver: O bone Jesu Alessandro Striggio: Ecce beatam lucem Artistic director Lionel Meunier selected the iconic motet Media Vita of Sheppard, extremely moving music here flanked by two pieces written for 40 a capella voices. Writing for 40 voices implies a series of logistical and technical challenges. Tallis and Striggio probably met in London in 1567. Tallis’s monumental 40-voice work, Spem in alium, was probably inspired by the example of Striggio. Whereas Striggio’s composition Ecce Beatam lucem was probably designed for semicircular performance, Tallis had designed his music to be heard ‘in the round’, with the listener seated within the circle of performers. The music seems as such to ‘rotate’ around a circle. |
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August 30, 20:00
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Germany
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Alte Kirche, Rhede Für die Ewigkeit + Heinrich Schütz: Musikalische Exequien SWV 279-281 Claudio Monteverdi: Adoramus te, Christe SV 289 Claudio Monteverdi: Christe adoramus te SV 294 Claudio Monteverdi: Cruxifixus SV 259 Claudio Monteverdi: Laetaniae della Beata Vergine Claudio Monteverdi: O bone Jesu o piissimi Jesu SV 313 After his second visit to Venice in 1628, Heinrich Schütz was greatly impressed by the (religious) music of Claudio Monteverdi. The latter showed how to reinforce the content of the text through music, thus bringing out the human affects in all their clarity. This technique is clearly reflected in Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien. The funeral music for Prince Heinrich II is among the most intense mourning music of the 17th century and a milestone in the Baroque era. Lionel Meunier and Vox Luminis are particularly attached to the work. Their 2012 recording was awarded “Recording of the Year” by Gramophone and ensured their international breakthrough.
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September 15, 19:30
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United Kingdom
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Wigmore Hall, London Ein Deutsches Barock-Requiem + Vox Luminis surrounds Schütz’s masterpiece with other works from the German Baroque period – many of them scarcely known – plus a hymn by Luther used in the Musikalische Exequien.
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September 23, 20:00
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Belgium
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Concertgebouw, Bruges H. Schütz, Psalms of David + The music of Giovanni Gabrieli, the master of multiple choirs, was legendary. On high days he would shower sound down on the distinguished congregation of Venice’s St Mark’s Basilica from every corner, an effect his student Heinrich Schütz was more than happy to take home with him to the splendid German courts. Schütz’s collection of sacred choral music Psalms of David soon became legendary too: everyone performed it. To mark the 350th anniversary of Schütz’s death, resident artist Vox Luminis pay a resounding tribute to this German Baroque composer.
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October 7, 20:00
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Germany
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Schlosskirche, Weissenfels H. Schütz, Musikalische Exequien + Residency – Opening concert: Lumen Germaniae
Sacred Music from Heinrich Schütz, Samuel Scheidt, Thomas Selle and Andreas Hammerschmidt |
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October 8, 20:00
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Germany
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St. Johanniskirche, Gera H. Schütz, Psalms of David + The music of Giovanni Gabrieli, the master of multiple choirs, was legendary. On high days he would shower sound down on the distinguished congregation of Venice’s St Mark’s Basilica from every corner, an effect his student Heinrich Schütz was more than happy to take home with him to the splendid German courts. Schütz’s collection of sacred choral music Psalms of David soon became legendary too: everyone performed it. To mark the 350th anniversary of Schütz’s death, resident artist Vox Luminis pay a resounding tribute to this German Baroque composer.
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October 9, 17:00
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Germany
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Dreikönigskirche, Dresden H. Schütz, Psalms of David + Maximum musical enjoyment is guaranteed when Vox Luminis, artist in residence of the Schütz Year 2022, interprets multi-choral and sumptuous works by Schütz alongside compositions by contemporaries such as Schein, Scheidt and Selle as well as works by important Italian models of the Sagittarius. In the festive concert, however, the ensemble stretches the musical arc even further: to Thuringia, where the members of the Bach family (before Johann Sebastian Bach) were among Schütz’s most important colleagues.
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October 14, 19:30
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Germany
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Dom St. Peter und Paul, Zeitz H. Schütz, Symphoniae Sacrae III (Selection) + Für das Konzert in Zeitz wiederum wenden sich die Musikerinnen und Musiker von Vox Luminis den Symphoniae Sacrae III von Schütz zu. Die klangschönen Kompositionen seiner Meisterschüler David Pohle (ab 1678 in Zeitz und ab 1682 in Merseburg tätig), Johann Theile (ab 1694 musikalischer Berater des Herzogs von Zeitz) und Christoph Bernhard (ab 1680 Hofkapellmeister in Dresden) berühren nicht weniger die Herzen der Menschen und tragen Botschaften voller Strahlkraft und Menschlichkeit in sich.
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October 16, 17:00
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Germany
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Schlosskirche auf Schloss Hartenfels, Torgau Da Pacem Domine +
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October 22, 20:00
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USA
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Church of St Mary the Virgin, New York City Sacro Monteverdi + The mission of the music according to the seconda prattica described by Claudio Monteverdi, is to express and amplify the emotional content. In the 16th and beginning of the 17th century the city of Venice was under the spell of Claudio Monteverdi; this program deals with his sacred music taken from Selva Morale e Spirituale, an anthology of important pieces that Monteverdi composed during his long career in the Patriarchal Basilica of St Mark in Venice. In 1603 Monteverdi is assigned Chapel Master at St Mark; having lost his spouse Claudia in 1608 and his son in 1632, he took holy orders and after more than ten years, he publishes his testament of religious music : Selva Morale e Spirituale. In the middle of this dense wood of sounds, one voice comes up and takes the lead
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October 25, 19:30
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USA
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Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Richmond VA Sacro Monteverdi + The mission of the music according to the seconda prattica described by Claudio Monteverdi, is to express and amplify the emotional content. In the 16th and beginning of the 17th century the city of Venice was under the spell of Claudio Monteverdi; this program deals with his sacred music taken from Selva Morale e Spirituale, an anthology of important pieces that Monteverdi composed during his long career in the Patriarchal Basilica of St Mark in Venice. In 1603 Monteverdi is assigned Chapel Master at St Mark; having lost his spouse Claudia in 1608 and his son in 1632, he took holy orders and after more than ten years, he publishes his testament of religious music : Selva Morale e Spirituale. In the middle of this dense wood of sounds, one voice comes up and takes the lead
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October 26, 19:30
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USA
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Duke University, Durham NC Sacro Monteverdi + The mission of the music according to the seconda prattica described by Claudio Monteverdi, is to express and amplify the emotional content. In the 16th and beginning of the 17th century the city of Venice was under the spell of Claudio Monteverdi; this program deals with his sacred music taken from Selva Morale e Spirituale, an anthology of important pieces that Monteverdi composed during his long career in the Patriarchal Basilica of St Mark in Venice. In 1603 Monteverdi is assigned Chapel Master at St Mark; having lost his spouse Claudia in 1608 and his son in 1632, he took holy orders and after more than ten years, he publishes his testament of religious music : Selva Morale e Spirituale. In the middle of this dense wood of sounds, one voice comes up and takes the lead
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October 29, 19:30
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USA
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Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kansas City MO Sacro Monteverdi + The mission of the music according to the seconda prattica described by Claudio Monteverdi, is to express and amplify the emotional content. In the 16th and beginning of the 17th century the city of Venice was under the spell of Claudio Monteverdi; this program deals with his sacred music taken from Selva Morale e Spirituale, an anthology of important pieces that Monteverdi composed during his long career in the Patriarchal Basilica of St Mark in Venice. In 1603 Monteverdi is assigned Chapel Master at St Mark; having lost his spouse Claudia in 1608 and his son in 1632, he took holy orders and after more than ten years, he publishes his testament of religious music : Selva Morale e Spirituale. In the middle of this dense wood of sounds, one voice comes up and takes the lead
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November 3, 19:30
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Canada
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Salle Bourgie, Montreal QC Sacro Monteverdi + The mission of the music according to the seconda prattica described by Claudio Monteverdi, is to express and amplify the emotional content. In the 16th and beginning of the 17th century the city of Venice was under the spell of Claudio Monteverdi; this program deals with his sacred music taken from Selva Morale e Spirituale, an anthology of important pieces that Monteverdi composed during his long career in the Patriarchal Basilica of St Mark in Venice. In 1603 Monteverdi is assigned Chapel Master at St Mark; having lost his spouse Claudia in 1608 and his son in 1632, he took holy orders and after more than ten years, he publishes his testament of religious music : Selva Morale e Spirituale. In the middle of this dense wood of sounds, one voice comes up and takes the lead
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November 4, 20:00
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USA
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Jordan Hall, Boston MA Sacro Monteverdi + The mission of the music according to the seconda prattica described by Claudio Monteverdi, is to express and amplify the emotional content. In the 16th and beginning of the 17th century the city of Venice was under the spell of Claudio Monteverdi; this program deals with his sacred music taken from Selva Morale e Spirituale, an anthology of important pieces that Monteverdi composed during his long career in the Patriarchal Basilica of St Mark in Venice. In 1603 Monteverdi is assigned Chapel Master at St Mark; having lost his spouse Claudia in 1608 and his son in 1632, he took holy orders and after more than ten years, he publishes his testament of religious music : Selva Morale e Spirituale. In the middle of this dense wood of sounds, one voice comes up and takes the lead
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