Ensemble Resonanz / RIAS Kammerchor Berlin / Justin Doyle

In his »Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis«, Vaughan Williams draws on the depths of 16th century English choral music and transforms a song from a distant time into a floating, spherical web of sound that fills the room with an almost meditative expanse. Hubert Parry’s »Songs of Farewell« are characterised by a different kind of reverberation – they carry the melancholy of a leave-taking. The haunting choral songs interweave psalms with English poetry and condense into a poignant dialogue about transience, grief and consolation. In contrast, Edward Elgar’s »Introduction and Allegro« bursts forth with wild energy, a »veritable devil’s fugue with all kinds of jokes and counterpoints«. Joanna Marsh’s new work »Threadlands« tells of the fine threads that connect people across distances and breaks – inextricably linked.