Composers
Wim Henderickx (Three Interludes)
Karel Goeyvaerts (Improperia)
Giacinto Scelsi (Triphon, Antifona, Tre Canti Sacri, Pranam II)
Musical team
HERMESensemble
Capella di Voce
Composers
Wim Henderickx (Three Interludes)
Karel Goeyvaerts (Improperia)
Giacinto Scelsi (Triphon, Antifona, Tre Canti Sacri, Pranam II)
Musical team
HERMESensemble
Capella di Voce
HERMESensemble joins forces with Capella di Voce in a search of religion and mysticism.
The exploration starts with an early composition by Wim Henderickx: Three Interludes for Oboe, Horn and Piano. This three-part 1989 work is fairly experimental regarding the contrasts of its structure and musical notation.
This piece is followed by a work from another Fleming, namely Karel Goeyvaerts with his Good Friday Cantata Impropria, a composition dating from 1959 for contralto, mixed double choir, and six instruments.
This sacrally inspired programme concludes with a piece by the Italian Giacinto Scelsi. His pioneering oeuvre only started to receive the attention it deserved many years after being written. After a personal crisis at the end of the forties, Scelsi underwent a radical transformation. He abandoned Catholicism for Eastern spirituality: a break that influenced not only his outlook on life but also his musical oeuvre.