Auditorio nacional de musica, Madrid - Spain - 5 Jun 2008
Duruflé's Requiem with choral works by Messiaen, Bruckner and Poulenc
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Abbaye de St Denis, Paris - France - 6 Jun 2008
Duruflé's Requiem with motets by Messiaen and Poulenc
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SPANISH CATHEDRALS
John Eliot Gardiner conductor
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
Programme
Gallus Ecce quomodo moritur justus
Eccard Übers Gebirg Maria geht
Lassus Aus meiner Sünden Tiefe
Rovetta Salve Regina
Brahms Geistliches Lied, op 30
Mendelssohn Mitten wir im Leben sind
Brahms Fest- und Gedenksprüche op 109
Schütz Musikalische Exequien
In many ways, this five-cathedral tour is an appendix to ‘Brahms and his antecedents’, our Brahms project which began in 2007 and will continue in Autumn 2008. It places Heinrich Schütz’s great Musikalische Exequien as a springboard to the choral works which Brahms wrote at various times throughout his life. Schütz, rightly held to be the most important German composer before Bach, was a huge influence on later generations. Brahms not only studied Schütz’s music avidly but often performed choral works by Schütz with the various choirs he conducted in Hamburg, Detmold and Vienna. The Musikalische Exequien (which Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir recorded to acclaim nearly 20 years ago) is an extraordinary piece commissioned by one of those enlightened rulers, Prince Heinrich Posthumus of Reuss-Gera, who wanted a funeral piece of his exact design. In many ways, it bears some similarities with Brahms’s German Requiem in that it draws on the Requiem Mass but then adapts it in favour of something more ‘human’. The settings of five of Spain’s most imposing Catholic cathedrals will provide an impressive backdrop to these German composers’ mastery of their mediums.
Salamanca Cathedral - 26 Jun 2008
Schütz Musikalische Exquien and a selection of unaccompanied motets
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Segovia Cathedral - 27 Jun 2008
Schütz Musikalishce Exequien and a selection of unaccompanied motets
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Ávila Cathedral - 29 Jun 2008
Schütz Musikalische Exequien and a selection of unaccompanied motets
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Toledo Cathedral - 30 Jun 2008
Schütz Musikalische Exequien and a selection of unaccompanied motets
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Seville Cathedral - 2 Jul 2008
Schütz Musikalische Exequien and a selection of unaccompanied motets
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Abbaye de San Martin Pinario, Santiago de Compostela - Spain - 4 Jul 2008
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ST JAMES SPANISH PLACE
John Eliot Gardiner conductor
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
Programme
Gallus/HandL Ecce quomodo moritur justus
Lassus Aus meiner Sünden Tiefe
G. Gabrieli Benedictus à 12
Schütz Musikalische Exequien
Bruckner Os Justi
Duruflé Requiem
Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien (which Gardiner
and the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra recorded to acclaim nearly 20 years
ago) is an extraordinary work commissioned by one of those enlightened rulers,
Prince Heinrich Posthumus of Reuss-Gera, who wanted a funeral piece of his
exact design. It anticipates Brahms’ German Requiem in that it assembles
specially chosen vernacular texts which emphasise the human aspects of grief
and consolation. Here Gardiner places it next to Duruflé’s touching and
delicate take on the Requiem Mass in its version for choir and organ, alongside
a selection of unaccompanied motets and psalms.
St James's Church, Spanish Place, London - 7 Jul 2008
Schütz Musikalische Exequien and Duruflé Requiem with a selection of unaccompanied motets
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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Programme
Brahms Begräbnisgesang
Schütz Musikalische Exequien
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
John Eliot Gardiner takes his ensembles to the Edinburgh International Festival after an absence of almost 10 years.
Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem formed a centre-piece of the first installment of the Monteverdi's 'Brahms and his antecedents' project which began last autumn and will be completed this autumn with tours of his 2nd and 3rd Symphonies. And Schütz's Musikalische Exequien, too, is being revived from an earlier tour. Although neither work actually uses the text from the Requiem Mass, they are both, essentially Requiems - assembling specially chosen, vernacular texts which emphasise the human aspect of grief and consolation.
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland - 19 Aug 2008
Brahms and Schütz
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BACH ST JOHN PASSION AND BRANDENBURG CONCERTI
John Eliot Gardiner conductor
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
Programme
JS Bach St John Passion
Soloists
Mark Padmore Evangelist (28 August)
James Gilchrist Evangelist (3 September)
Peter Harvey Christus
JS Bach Brandenburg Concerti nos 1-6
JS Bach Cantata 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelnlust' BWV170
JC Bach Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hatte
Soloist
Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano
After a moving Holy Week tour of the St John Passion,, at the centre of which was a performance on Bach's birthday (appropriately coinciding with Good Friday this year), the Monteverdis are reviving it alongside Bach's great Brandenburg set and two smaller works by JS and JC Bach.
BBC Proms 2008, Royal Albert Hall, London - 24 Aug 2008
JS Bach St John Passion
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Auditorium, Grafenneg, Germany - 28 Aug 2008
JS Bach St John Passion
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Köthener Bachfesttage, St Jakob, Köthen, Germany - 3 Sep 2008
JS Bach St John Passion
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Köthener Bachfesttage, Spiegelsaal, Köthen, Germany - 5 Sep 2008
JS Bach Brandebburg Concertos nos III, V and VI
JS Bach Vergnügte Ruh beliebte Seelenlust
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Köthener Bachfesttage, Schloss - JS Bach Saal, Köthen, Germany - 5 Sep 2008
JS Bach Brandenburg Concertos nos I, II and IV
JC Bach Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte
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