Bruckner & Gesualdo: Echoing across the centuries: In the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth, the Monteverdi Choir, in its 60th year, explores the 19th-century vision of the past. at Ely Cathedral, Ely on Wednesday 16th October 2024

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Bruckner & Gesualdo: Echoing across the centuries

In the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth, the Monteverdi Choir, in its 60th year, explores the 19th-century vision of the past.

Part of the Bruckner & Gesualdo: Echoing across the centuries - 2024 Series

Add to my Calendar 16-10-2024 19:30 16-10-2024 21:30 36 Bruckner & Gesualdo: Echoing across the centuries Anton Bruckner was born 200 years ago this year. To hear his choral music with fresh ears, we have placed his celebrated a cappella motets together with unlikely bedfellows, above all the sacred motets of Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613). Richard Wagner was one of Bruckner’s musical heroes, and in his motets Bruckner manages to distil a hyper-romantic and highly expressive idiom into a compact form which otherwise eluded both of them. 250 years earlier, Gesualdo was experimenting with ear- and mind-bending chromatic expressionism and enharmonic shifts in a remarkably similar way. Both Bruckner and Gesualdo were outsiders, were strongly led by their Catholic faith, and showed signs of mental instability. The tormented passion of their music seems to reach out across the centuries. Ely Cathedral, Ely DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Ely Cathedral
The College
Ely
Cambridgeshire
CB7 4DL
England

Wednesday 16th October 2024
7:30 PM

Programme

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Stabat Mater (arr. Richard Wagner)
Anton Bruckner – Postlude / Nachspiel in D minor, WAB 126
Carlo Gesualdo – Illumina faciem tuam
Anton Bruckner – Christus factus est, WAB 11
Carlo Gesualdo – Ave, dulcissima Maria
Anton Bruckner – Ave Maria, WAB 6
~ Interval ~
Anton Bruckner – Prelude and Fugue in C minor, WAB 131
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus a 8 voci
Carlo Gesualdo – Tribulationem et dolorem
Anton Bruckner – Os justi, WAB 30
Carlo Gesualdo – O vos omnes
Anton Bruckner – Salvum fac populum tuum, WAB 40
Carlo Gesualdo – Peccantem me quotidie
Anton Bruckner – Vexilla Regis, WAB 51
Carlo Gesualdo – Laboravi in gemitu meo
Anton Bruckner – Locus iste, WAB 23

Performers

Jonathan Sells – Conductor
James Johnston – organ

Monteverdi Choir

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Programme Note

Anton Bruckner was born 200 years ago this year. To hear his choral music with fresh ears, we have placed his celebrated a cappella motets together with unlikely bedfellows, above all the sacred motets of Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613).

Richard Wagner was one of Bruckner’s musical heroes, and in his motets Bruckner manages to distil a hyper-romantic and highly expressive idiom into a compact form which otherwise eluded both of them.

250 years earlier, Gesualdo was experimenting with ear- and mind-bending chromatic expressionism and enharmonic shifts in a remarkably similar way. Both Bruckner and Gesualdo were outsiders, were strongly led by their Catholic faith, and showed signs of mental instability. The tormented passion of their music seems to reach out across the centuries.

Members of the Monteverdi Choir singing at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

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