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A concert that reconnects us with the collective singing of childhood – but that is not all! Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Britten brought something new to choral forms through a combination of religious inspiration, simplicity, joy and purity of language.
With his Symphony of Psalms, Stravinsky uses the chorus to evoke the timeless and ancestral voices of the Old Testament: with the texts of three psalms, the composer interlaces solemnity and simplicity in a rereading of tradition, creating a surprisingly poetic dialogue with the instrumental accompaniment, here transcribed for piano.
Mendelssohn offers an intimate and moving interpretation of another psalm and a hymn from the Gospel of Luke, in a piece for a cappella chorus composed with great clarity, while Britten’s Friday Afternoons celebrates the moments when children and adults gather to sing together. Four traditional Christmas carols conclude this inventive program, a tribute to shared choral emotion.
