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Myths and fantasies
Vocal ensemble Sjaella
7 to 8.15 p.m., no break
The other half speaks like the moss, the lichen and hums the forgotten songs of the birds. A concert program in which more has its say than the intellectual human being. The birds, the ice and the water speak; the seasons communicate among themselves. And Circe — the Greek sorceress with a human voice — is asked for advice: through which language can the essentials find their way back into our silenced hearts? Sjaella creates a space in which ancient and contemporary music is expressed equally through voices and bodies.
Contributors
Sjaella
Viola Blache
Marie Fenske
Soprano
Marie Charlotte Seidel
Mezzo-soprano
Felicitas Erben
Helene Erben
Luise Klose
Old
Program
Henry Purcell
A bird’s Prelude
(from The Fairy Queen, arr. Sjaella)
Clément Janequin
Le Rossignol (arr. Susanne Blache)
Caroline Shaw (*1981)
Dolce cantavi
Henry Purcell
Thus the ever grateful spring
Here’s the summer, sprightly, gay
See my many colored fields
Now winter comes slowly
(from The Fairy Queen, Act 4, Arr. Gregor Meyer)
Meredi (*1992)
Crystallized
Wally Gunn (*1971)
What would Circe do?
Half My Voice Is Human — Half of my voice is human