La Rose - Betrachtungen zwischen Liebe und Schmerz

LA ROSE

Reflections between love and pain

Choral concert with works by Morten Lauridsen, Nils Lindberg, Bob Dylan and others

Capella Vocale Munich and Cantus Sempachersee

Piano: André Ducommun

Rehearsals Cantus Sempachersee: Katharina Benz-Wicki

Conductor: Jakob Steiner

It is a Valentine's Day souvenir, a pop song motif and a stage gift. But the rose is more than just a cliché - especially in Munich, where its name stands for attitude and courage: the "White Rose". Rainer Maria Rilke dedicated an entire collection of French-language poems to it with "Les roses", oscillating between perfection and transience.

The summer program of Capella Vocale München focuses on the setting of some of these poems by the American composer Morten Lauridsen. The program is complemented by choral works ranging from Renaissance madrigals to modern music, which illuminate the phenomenon in very different ways.

Following Capella Vocale's visit to Switzerland in May, the concert in the Sendlinger Himmelfahrtskirche is now the occasion for a return visit: Cantus Sempachersee from the canton of Lucerne is bringing pianist André Ducommun and a colorful bouquet of love and Swiss songs.