Abendmusik: Over the Alps
Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 5:00 pm
10.00 – 25.00
St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church
[Please note the change of date from that advertised in our season brochure]
Music for Galway & Galway 2020 present this concert
In association with the Galway Early Music Festival
Resurgam | English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble | Mark Duley director
| JOHANN ROSENMÜLLER | Vespers |
| SEAN DOHERTY | Hail! Gladdening Light (world premiere) |
In his lifetime, Rosenmüller was considered one of Europe’s greatest and most well-travelled musicians, and a key figure in bringing Italian musical ideas to Germany. Thus his music looks both ways across the Alps: grandiloquent Venetian splendour meeting Teutonic contrapuntal discipline.
Resurgam brings the colourful and virtuosic beauty of his concerted vocal music to Ireland for the first time, with a collation of Latin psalm-concerti, each a mini-cantata. The splendidly sonorous C minor Magnificat in eight parts caps a Vespers setting in the grand Venetian style.
Sean Doherty’s new work, setting an ancient Vesper hymn, forms a contrast in the centre of the programme.
Please note that tickets are non-refundable.
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