Nacht.Licht.Himmel.
From 27 June to 27 June Sweden / Skara (SE)
Sacred music a cappella
With Nacht.Licht.Himmel., Ensemble Polyharmonique turns to sacred vocal music a cappella, moving between night, consolation and promise. The programme connects six-part works from the Renaissance and early Baroque with the present. Music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz enters into dialogue with Erik Van Nevel’s motet Infelix ego. The evening leads from the lament of the Lamentations through the plea for peace and forgiveness to the praise of heavenly glory. Palestrina’s Missa Assumpta est Maria forms the conceptual frame. With Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, Schütz opens the heavenly perspective and, with Selig sind die Toten, brings the path to a close in consoled confidence. Praetorius and Victoria mark further stations between supplication, grief and hope. In this way, Night.Light.Heaven. becomes a musical reflection on human states of the soul.
Ensemble Polyharmonique
Magdalene Harer/Joowon Chung - Sopran
Alexander Schneider - Alt
Christian Volkmann/Christopher Renz - Tenor
Matthias Lutze - Bass
program:
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes SWV 386 - motet a6 - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Kyrie/Gloria - Missa a6 „Assumpta est Maria” - G.P. Palestrina (1525-1594)
Da pacem - motet a6 - Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)
Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist - motet a6 - Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Lamentationes Jeremiae - Sabbato Sancto Lectio III a6 - G.P. Palestrina (1525-1594)
Versa est in luctum - Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611)
Infelix ego - motet a6 - Erik Van Nevel (*1956) - dedicated to Ensemble Polyharmonique
Canticum Simeonis - SWV 433 - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Sanctus/Agnus Dei - Missa a6 „Assumpta est Maria” - G.P. Palestrina (1525-1594)
Selig sind die Toten SWV 391 - motet a6 - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
With Nacht.Licht.Himmel., Ensemble Polyharmonique turns to sacred vocal music a cappella, moving between night, consolation and promise. The programme connects six-part works from the Renaissance and early Baroque with the present. Music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz enters into dialogue with Erik Van Nevel’s motet Infelix ego. The evening leads from the lament of the Lamentations through the plea for peace and forgiveness to the praise of heavenly glory. Palestrina’s Missa Assumpta est Maria forms the conceptual frame. With Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, Schütz opens the heavenly perspective and, with Selig sind die Toten, brings the path to a close in consoled confidence. Praetorius and Victoria mark further stations between supplication, grief and hope. In this way, Night.Light.Heaven. becomes a musical reflection on human states of the soul.
Ensemble Polyharmonique
Magdalene Harer/Joowon Chung - Sopran
Alexander Schneider - Alt
Christian Volkmann/Christopher Renz - Tenor
Matthias Lutze - Bass
program:
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes SWV 386 - motet a6 - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Kyrie/Gloria - Missa a6 „Assumpta est Maria” - G.P. Palestrina (1525-1594)
Da pacem - motet a6 - Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)
Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist - motet a6 - Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Lamentationes Jeremiae - Sabbato Sancto Lectio III a6 - G.P. Palestrina (1525-1594)
Versa est in luctum - Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611)
Infelix ego - motet a6 - Erik Van Nevel (*1956) - dedicated to Ensemble Polyharmonique
Canticum Simeonis - SWV 433 - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Sanctus/Agnus Dei - Missa a6 „Assumpta est Maria” - G.P. Palestrina (1525-1594)
Selig sind die Toten SWV 391 - motet a6 - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
