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The Monteverdi Choir - 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 20-10-2024 18:00 20-10-2024 20:00 36 The Monteverdi Choir - 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. “The Monteverdi Choir, led by Jonathan Sells...proves its extraordinary class.”- Leipziger Volkszeitung Pre-concert talk:Before the concert at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, esteemed music broadcaster, curator, and writer Sara Mohr-Pietsch will engage in conversation with the concert’s conductor, Jonathan Sells. Together, they will delve into Bruckner & Gesualdo – two unlikely bedfellows, musical mavericks 250 years apart. The Chapel - Old Royal Naval College, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
The Chapel - Old Royal Naval College
2 Cutty Sark Gardens
Greenwich
London
SE10 9NN
England
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
Carlo Gesualdo – O Crux benedicta
Performers
Jonathan Sells – Conductor
James Johnstone – 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.
“The Monteverdi Choir, led by Jonathan Sells...proves its extraordinary class.”- Leipziger Volkszeitung
Pre-concert talk:
Before the concert at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, esteemed music broadcaster, curator, and writer Sara Mohr-Pietsch will engage in conversation with the concert’s conductor, Jonathan Sells. Together, they will delve into Bruckner & Gesualdo – two unlikely bedfellows, musical mavericks 250 years apart.
