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Gesualdo Passione (Barbican Hall, London)
CARLO GESUALDO (1566-1613) was not a happy man. His 27 settings of the Tenebrae responsories — verses sung as a response to readings at the service of Tenebrae on the last three days of Holy Week — were his own reaction to…
Requiem A by Sven Helbig (Methodist Central Hall, Westminster)
THE self-taught German composer Sven Helbig wrote his Requiem A in response to his own feelings of powerlessness and horror that conversations about possible and ongoing wars have again become part of everyday life. Given its…
The Great Audition of Leipzig (Les Arts Florissants, Wigmore Hall)
WHEN the post of Town Cantor at Leipzig fell vacant in 1723 with the death of Johann Kuhnau, the city council held a series of auditions for the job. For their concert “The Great Audition of Leipzig”, in the Wigmore Hall,…
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