Janáček: Glagolitische Messe | Chor & Orchester St. Michaelis | Jörg Endebrock | ProArte Hamburg

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Program

Leoš Janáček: Glagolitic Mass
Johannes Brahms: Alto Rhapsody op. 53
Anton Bruckner: Te Deum in C major WAB 45

Instrumentation

Choir & Orchestra St. Michaelis
Jörg Endebrock, conductor
Susanne Bernhard, soprano
Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano
Sung Min Song, tenor
Jan Martiník, bass
Antonio Di Dedda, organ

Facets of spirituality

Archaic splendor of sound, painfully tender soul-searching, radiant praise of God: at the opening of the Bach Weeks, the choir and orchestra of St. Michaelis musically illuminate three facets of human spirituality. While Leoš Janáček's Glagolitic Mass uses dramatic sounds and Old Slavonic language to shed an impressive new light on the familiar mass texts, Anton Bruckner's Te Deum expresses the composer's deep certainty of faith. Johannes Brahms' Alto Rhapsody forms a stark contrast to these essentially optimistic works: the then 36-year-old Brahms used harrowing sounds to come to terms with his unhappy love for Clara and Robert Schumann's daughter Julie - before a glimmer of hope (at least in music) shines through at the end.

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