Name: Bach, Schütz & Schein: Music of Consolation
Start: 2022-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Philharmonie

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Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

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English Baroque Soloists

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Monteverdi Choir

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Bach, Schütz & Schein: Music of Consolation

London

United Kingdom

St Martin-in-the-Fields

Athens

Greece

Odeon of Herodes Atticus

Dortmund

Germany

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Braunschweig

St Martini

Leipzig

Nikolaikirche

Barcelona

Spain

Palau de la Música Catalana

Luxembourg

Philharmonie

Bach, Schütz & Schein: Music of Consolation: Concert

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Concert

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In June 2022, John Eliot Gardiner led the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists on a tour of Europe, performing the music of Bach and two of his German forebears: Schütz and Schein in a programme of music of consolation. The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists travelled to Luxembourg Philharmonie, Palau de la Música - Barcelona, Nikolaikirche, Bachfest - Leipzig, St Martini - Braunschweig, Konzerthaus - Dortmund, and Odeon of Herodes Atticus - Athens before returning for a fantastic concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

Programme:

Schütz Freue dich des Weibes deiner Jugend, SWV 453
Schütz Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn, SWV 40
Schein Da Jakob vollendet hatte
Schütz Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehöret, SWV 396
Schütz Musikalische Exequien, SWV 279-281
Bach Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus), BWV 106
Bach O Jesu Christ meins Lebens Licht, BWV 118

The works in this programme explored these great composers’ attempts to comfort the bereaved through their music. Written when he was only 22 years old, Bach’s Actus tragicus, BWV 106 can be interpreted as a cathartic musical outpouring of his own unresolved grief, after he was orphaned 12 years before.

The Monteverdi Choir was accompanied by the rich sound of early brass instruments in rarely heard short works by Schütz and Schein, and two other consolatory pieces: Bach’s ‘O Jesu Christ mein’s Lebens Licht’, BWV 118; and Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, an exquisitely poetic meditation written for Prince Heinrich of Reuss.

English

Bach, Schütz & Schein: Music of Consolation by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor John Eliot Gardiner, Philharmonie, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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