crescendo26: GegenTöne - Counter-Tones
Lift up your voices! – crescendo
The Chamber Choir of the Arts and instrumentalists from the Institute of Early Music raise their voices to proclaim that they will not allow the power of music to be taken away from them, following Cecilia's example: Lift up your voices!
Johann Georg Pisendel: Imitation des caractères de la danse
Henry Purcell: Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day ‘Welcome to all the pleasures’ Z.339
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia, Op. 27 | Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria RV 589
Chamber Choir of the Arts / Baroque Ensemble of the Institute for Early Music / Soloists / Maike Bühle, Mayumi Hirasaki, Xenia Löffler, conductor
Early music and the Chamber Choir of the Arts are becoming regular features at crescendo. As last year, they are putting together a programme at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. At a time when the cultural sector and arts education are under such severe threat, as is currently the case in Berlin, Saint Cecilia, patron saint of all musicians and a strong female figure in ancient Rome, could not remain inactive. She inspired the evening's programme, which traces the English tradition of musical veneration of Cecilia from the 17th to the 20th century – from Henry Purcell to Benjamin Britten. The patron saint is celebrated in very different historical contexts – as a Baroque festival figure and as a pacifist inspiration in the 20th century. The programme is complemented by Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, which, with its diverse forms, is one of the composer's best-known works.
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