A superb (if sparsely attended) concert in the Duomo this evening from the choir from Lubecca, Germany who included Barga on their two week Italian tour which takes in Montecarlo, Lucca and Assisi. Their conductor Andreas Krohn spent a holiday in this area in the past and after visiting the Duomo decided on the spot that he has to return with his choir to sing inside the cathedral. This evening they did precisely that – a concert that included music from the 16th century right through to modern day composers such as Schoenberg and Petr Eben.
MEDIA VITA CONCERTO di MUSICA SACRA – Concerto di musica sacra in Duomo di Barga con il coro da camera di Lubecca (direttore Andreas Krohn)
Composizioni per coro misto
Petr Eben – CANTICO DELLE CREATURE
Cantico delle creature for mixed choir on lyrics by St. Francis of Assisi, 1987 by Petr Eben, the Czech musician and composer who died only recently.
John Sheppard – MEDIA VITA
John Sheppard’s reputation as a composer is still not fully established. Little is known about Sheppard’s career, except that he was employed at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK between 1543 and 1548 and also at the Chapel Royal from 1552 or before to 1559 or 1560 when his name disappeared from the list of Gentlemen.
Johannes Brahms – FEST- und GEDENKSPRÜCHE
Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897) was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms’ popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the Three Bs.
Arnold Schönberg – FRIEDE AUF ERDEN
Arnold Schoenberg 1874 – 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.
Schoenberg’s approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th-century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking or, in some cases, passionately reacted against it. During the rise of the Nazi Party in Austria, his music was labelled, alongside jazz, as degenerate art.
CORO DA CAMERA DI LUBECCA (Germania) – direttore: Andreas Krohn