As part of our programme “Brother Sun, Sister Moon”, we’ll be performing two works by the early 20th Century French composer Lili Boulanger: Renouvaeu and Hymne au Soleil. Though she composed little, dogged by ill health that cut her life short at the age of only 24, her output remains Read more…
Plenty has been written about the complex musical language of the Musikalische Exequien, and its synthesis of disparate contemporary styles into a unified musical whole. But what makes the piece uniquely fascinating is its intensely personal aspect, and this goes above and beyond merely Prince Heinrich’s textual influence. Schütz Read more…
In a few weeks’ time, we’re going to be performing one of the most important sacred works of the early German Baroque: Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien (“Funeral Music”), widely considered to be the first “German Requiem”. Over three tightly constructed movements with about half an hour’s music between them, it Read more…