Last tickets for tenebrae
Dear listeners, dear listeners, thank you for your overwhelming interest in this year’s Dark Watch at the Yellow Hill Water Tower. Although we have gradually added more and more dates and will be presenting them eight times in three days, there are only one date left, Thursday 17 April at 9.30pm. We’re down to our […]
Introduction of the 32nd year
Reconciliation This year, the movable feasts of Easter fall in the latter half of April, some weeks after the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March). According to tradition, this was when the words “let it be done” (fiat) were first heard, in this case said by Mary. On Maundy Thursday, we remember similar words spoken […]
The 32nd edition of the festival with the subtitle Reconciliation will take place from 13 to 27 April
EASTER FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC Sun 13 April – Sun 27 April 2025 Reconciliation The Easter Festival of Sacred Music accompanies its listeners during Holy and Holy Week. Once again, it includes repertoire from medieval chant to contemporary, once again touring the churches of Brno, but not only. For the first time in Brno, Arvo […]
The next year of the festival with the subtitle Terroir will take place from SUN 24 March – SUN 7 April 2024
EASTER FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC SUN 24th of March – SUN 7th of April 2024 Terroir In the context of wine, the semi-mysterious word terroir, a French word, from the Latin term for land, soil, is popularly used. However, the charm of this word lies precisely in its difficulty to grasp, in the impossibility of translating […]
Photos from the opening concert of the festival
We started this year’s festival yesterday with the renewed premiere of the Stabat Mater by the Brno cathedral organist František Musil. Soloists, five choirs and Filharmonie Brno conducted by Tomáš Krejčí . Photo by Jan Prokopius
Tickets on sale
Exactly in one month, we will start the festival with the concert Grant that my heart may burn. In the renewed premiere, Musil’s forgotten Stabat Mater will be performed by a quartet of soloists and leading Brno mixed choirs. Tickets are already on sale.
Transformations
The 30th anniversary of the festival in 2023 provides an opportunity to step out and seek new horizons. Beyond the unfathomable riches of liturgical and sacred music of past centuries and today, the festival takes its crucial inspiration from the Easter holidays and their message of death and resurrection. The blending of splendid musical and […]
