The early music choir and orchestra ensemble Pygmalion and its charismatic founder and director Raphaël Pichon have long since become cherished regular guests at the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle. Following their Johannes Brahms programme last season, praised by the Hamburger Abendblatt as a »special experience« and »quite unlike anything one would normally expect«, they now travel much further back in music history with their programme »Vertigo«.
At its centre stands the German composer Michael Praetorius, who worked at the cusp of the Renaissance and Baroque periods and is regarded as one of the key figures of the age. Today, he is best known for his four-part setting of the Christmas carol »Es ist ein Ros entsprungen«, yet his importance in music history rests above all on his extensive body of festive polychoral sacred music and his influential theoretical writings. In these works, he experimented with new forms while incorporating influences from Italy and France. Pichon now combines a selection from Praetorius’s vast oeuvre with choral works by other major contemporaries, including Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz and Giovanni Gabrieli.
PERFORMERS
Pygmalion choir and orchestra
Raphaël Pichon conductor
PROGRAM
»Vertigo«
Michael Praetorius
Veni sancte Spiritus
Michael Praetorius
Intrada à 6
Michael Praetorius
Hallelujah! Christ ist erstanden No. 174
Giovanni Gabrieli
Sanctus à 12
Claudio Monteverdi
Dixit Dominus II a 8
Heinrich Schütz
O Jesu, nomen dulce, SWV 308
Heinrich Schütz
Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?, SWV 415
Ignazio Donati
Dulcis amor Jesu à 5
Heinrich Schütz
Danket dem Herrn, denn er ist freundlich, SWV 45
Claudio Monteverdi
Adoramus te
Samuel Scheidt
Paduana dolorosa à 5, SSWV 47
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Giovanni Battista Bovicelli
Ave verum corpus
Claudio Monteverdi
Salve Regina II à 2
Claudio Monteverdi
Stabat Virgo Maria à 5
Heinrich Schütz
Alleluja, Lobet den Herren, SWV 38
as well as further works by Michael Praetorius, Giovanni Gabrieli, Heinrich Schütz and others
