Matinée concert: All Saints' music
This afternoon you can experience HemiDemiSemi Consort and Spanish Renaissance music for deceased souls – a real Halloween concert.
Programme
Cristóbal de Morales (ca. 1500-1553): Requiem: Introitus & Kyrie
Alonso Lobo (1555-1617): Motet: Versa est in luctum
Cristóbal de Morales: Requiem: Graduale
Juan Vásqeuz (c. 1500-1560): Motet: Sicut Servus
Cristóbal de Morales: Requiem, Sequentia: Pie Jesu
Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650): Motet: Sitivit anima mea
Cristóbal de Morales: Requiem, Communio: Lux aeterna
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): Motet: Versa est in luctum
Cristóbal de Morales: Requiem: Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei
Cristóbal de Morales: Prayer: Parce mihi Domine
Hear the greatest masters of Spanish Renaissance music, which is rarely heard here. The music is related to the special Catholic Officium Defunctorum (the office of the dead), which includes both mass sections (Requiem) responsories, motets and prayers. The programme's central work is Cristóbal de Morales' requiem from 1544. Between the parts of the funeral mass, motets from other important composers of the period are heard.
The Renaissance was a golden age on the Iberian Peninsula. With Columbus' discovery of the “new world”, the foundation was laid for the worldwide Spanish empire, which led to more than a hundred years of economic and artistic flourishing. Well-known visual artists such as Velázquez and El Greco date from this period, but it was also a golden age for music. Singers, musicians and composers were sent to Venice and Rome to study the learned polyphony and, after returning to Madrid and Seville, developed a sumptuous world of sound.
The music is performed by five singers and accompanied by trombone, dulcian, zink and gamba.
Matinée concert & Dinner
Stay for a meal in Salon after the concert.
Reserve your seat when you buy your ticket.
Menu:
Baked pumpkin on a base of lentils with pumpkin puree, monks cress and browned butter.
Plus wine & water.
Participants
HemiDemiSemi Consort under the direction of Jakob Bloch Jespersen.
About the ensemble:
HemiDemiSemi Consort is an ensemble based in Copenhagen, led by Jakob Bloch Jespersen. The ensemble specialises in vocal music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The name HemiDemiSemi Consort is inspired by French and English musical terminology, where hemidemisemi is the term for the smallest note value in the notation system. In Danish, this is a sixty-fourth note.
Music right at the end of the day!
The concept for the Matinée concerts at the Black Diamond is simple: The concerts only last an hour and start at 5 pm, so you can both get a shot of musical energy for your soul and make it home for dinner!
Part of the series Matinée concerts
Photo: Lars Krabbe / Det Kgl. Bibliotek
Sit back in the soft seats of the Queen's Hall for a classical concert after the day's work is over and be recharged for the evening.
The event is part of the series Matinée concerts, which offers chamber music of the highest level.
