Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall
»War and Peace« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Ein klingendes Geschichtspanorama
No other musician combines works from bygone eras with a topical message to such powerful effect: Jordi Savall – viola da gamba player, conductor, musicologist and star of the early music scene. His new programme »War and Peace« is a diverse musical fresco that evokes an age of battles and ceasefires, starting with the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War in 1618 and ending with the Peace Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle in 1748. »The emotion of the music linked here to the historic events allows us, perhaps, to see everything in a new light,« says the Catalan conductor, who was named UNESCO »Artist of Peace« in 2009.
Savall is travelling to Hamburg not only with a wealth of great music, but also with his early music instrumental ensembles Hespèrion XXI and Le Concert des Nations, and his ten-strong vocal ensemble La Capella Reial de Catalunya. On their search for the authentic sound of the age, they play music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The orchestras are complemented by four musicians from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, who enrich the music with oriental sounds. However, the concert comes to a close with Arvo Pärt’s prayer for peace »Da pacem Domine«, which he composed in 2004 in memory of the victims of the Madrid bombings.
Performers
Hespèrion XXI
Le Concert des Nations
La Capella Reial de Catalunya vocal ensemble
Nedyalko Nedyalkov Kaval
Yurdal Tokcan oud
Hakan Güngör kanun
Dimitri Psonis santur
Jordi Savall viola da gamba and director
Programme
»War and Peace«
from the Thirty Years’ War to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1618-1748)
Mss. Kantemiroglu
Der Makām-ı Uzzäl Sakîl »Turna«
Kristof Harant z Polzic
Qui confidunt in Domino / Moette für sechs Stimmen
Heinrich Schütz
Da pacem, Domine SWV 465
Johannes Rosenmüller
Siehe an die Werke Gottes
Mss. Kantemiroglu
Muhayyer »Küme« usüles Düyek / Türkischer Marsch
Joan Cererols
¡Ay! ¡Qué dolor! für fünf Stimmen und Generalbass
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Die Schlacht / aus: Battalia à 10
Johann Kaspar Kerll
Battaglia à 4 in D / Bearbeitung für Instrumentalensemble
Mss. Kantemiroglu
Makām-ı Hüseynī Sakīl-i Ağa Rıżā
Vasily Titov
Bezñevéstnaya Dévo (O Virgo)
Georg Friedrich Händel
O be joyfull in the Lord /
Anonymus
Catalunya en altre temps, ella sola’s governava
Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival