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Schnittke en Rachmaninov

Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance
Fri 28 Apr 20:15
Fri 28 Apr '23
20:15
  • Fri 28 Apr '23
    20:15
    Nieuwe Kerk, Den Haag

Schnittke was inspired to write his Twelve Psalms of Repentance to mark the thousand-year Christianisation of Russia in 1988. Schnittke discovered the lyrics in a collection of apocryphal and anonymous poetry by sixteenth-century monks, published in Moscow in 1986.

Programme

Sergei Rachmaninov - Zes koren en 'Bogoroditse Devo, Slava v vïshnikh Bogu' en 'Blagosloven esi, Gospodi' (delen uit Vespers op. 37)
Alfred Schnittke - 12 Stichi Pokajanije

Performers

Cappella Amsterdam
Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss, dirigent
Kimball Huigens, piano