"Hörst du nicht die Bäume rauschen?" (Can’t you hear the trees rustling?) This line from the "Six Garden Songs" from Fanny Hensel provides the motto for the MonteverdiChor München’s concert programme of a-cappella works from different eras. Composers of the late Renaissance such as Maddalena Casulana, an acclaimed northern Italian lutist and singer, and Claudio Monteverdi took inspirations from poetic descriptions of nature, similarly to Romanticists such as Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar and Amy Beach. Whilst their means to express portrayals of nature as a mirror of human emotions is very familiar to the audience, Hugo Distler challenges these traditional practices in his Mörike Song Book from 1939. In his "Five Flower Songs" in 1950 Benjamin Britten finds a place for the plainest and most non-descript plants in his music when he takes up poems from the baroque and romanticist eras. The intimate musical Rilke version by Lucian Beschiu from 2015 draws the arch to the present.
This event is part of the series "MonteverdiChor in Concert".
Venue
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Gastronomic offer:
No
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Tickets
This event is free of charge.
Reservation note:
Donations to the benefit of the MonteverdiChor requested
Further information
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Event duration:
20:00 – 21:30
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Maximum number of participants:
300
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What language:
Without words
MonteverdiChor München, 2011 © Mila Pavan
MonteverdiChor München, 2011 © Mila Pavan
The MonteverdiChoir in Biertan, Transylvania, concert tour Romania 2022 © Irene Baertle
Organiser
MonteverdiChor München e.V.
The MonteverdiChor München was founded in 1991 by Konrad von Abel and quickly gained outstanding reputation for the interpretation of a-capella music across all eras. As well as in local concerts the choir performs its current programme cycles on concert tours in Germany and neighbouring countries such as Romania in 2022. In 2023 the choir has been invited to the German Choir Festival in Lübeck.
