Night Watch: Romantic Choral Music from Vienna

Saturday, 28 September 2024

Event times:

18:30 - 19:30

Event location:

Pepper Canister Church

Event price:

€20.00

About this event

Chamber Choir Ireland explores the tranquil beauty of the nocturnal world in a programme of romantic choral music from Vienna.

In Brahms' Fünf Gesänge, night watchmen blow their horns, lamps are extinguished, and a wakeful soul asks the night to carry his love back to him.

In Schubert's Sehnsucht, a lover searches the sky and longs for their distant beloved, and in Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, the stars admire themselves in a glassy lake.

In Wolf's Geistliche Lieder, darkness climbs softly from the hills, and a lone sailor sings across the still night.

At the centre of the programme, Ligeti's iconic Lux Aeterna illuminates the night in the avant-garde work made famous by Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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