Gabriel Faure - Requiem | Memorial concert to commemorate February 13, 1945 - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Gabriel Faure - Requiem | Memorial concert to commemorate February 13, 1945
Contributors:
Alina Wunderlin, soprano
Andreas Scheibner, bass
Dresden Kreuzchor
Members of the Staatskapelle Dresden
Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann, direction
Every year, the people of Dresden commemorate the devastating night of the bombing on February 13, 1945 with a long human chain. The concert with the Dresdner Kreuzchor also has its place among the commemorative events.
The funeral motet “How is the city so deserted”, which the former Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger composed in response to the destruction of Dresden, traditionally opens the concert. The texts for the polyphonic vocal work come from the biblical Lamentations of Jeremiah, in which the prophet laments the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. On August 4, 1945, the Mauersberger motet was premiered in the first Vespers of the Dresden Kreuzchor after the war in the burnt-out Kreuzkirche.
The main work of the concert this year is Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, which is unlike any other. No dramatic Last Judgment, but consolation and hope. Dark minor sounds often glide into atmospheric major chords and give a comforting glimpse of heaven. With his setting of the Latin mass for the dead, Fauré created a work full of elegiac gentleness.
Subject to change.
Alina Wunderlin, soprano
Andreas Scheibner, bass
Dresden Kreuzchor
Members of the Staatskapelle Dresden
Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann, direction
Every year, the people of Dresden commemorate the devastating night of the bombing on February 13, 1945 with a long human chain. The concert with the Dresdner Kreuzchor also has its place among the commemorative events.
The funeral motet “How is the city so deserted”, which the former Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger composed in response to the destruction of Dresden, traditionally opens the concert. The texts for the polyphonic vocal work come from the biblical Lamentations of Jeremiah, in which the prophet laments the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. On August 4, 1945, the Mauersberger motet was premiered in the first Vespers of the Dresden Kreuzchor after the war in the burnt-out Kreuzkirche.
The main work of the concert this year is Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, which is unlike any other. No dramatic Last Judgment, but consolation and hope. Dark minor sounds often glide into atmospheric major chords and give a comforting glimpse of heaven. With his setting of the Latin mass for the dead, Fauré created a work full of elegiac gentleness.
Subject to change.
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