Wonderful opening concert
Church of St. Janů filled to the last place, it was yesterday’s opening concert performed by the ensemble Musica Figuralis. Thank you. Accept the invitation to more concerts and dark watches. Photo: Petr Francán
Meditation for Clarinet
A composition by Atli Heimir Sveinsson, which places extreme demands on the performer, both in detail and as a whole. Although the musical language of this meditation tends to be plain, it also uses the contemporary – sometimes called “extended” – techniques of clarinet playing, and does so functionally and without ostenta – tiousness This […]
Spot for the 29th year of the festival with the subtitle Body / Incarnation / Celebration
Ticket sales have started
After three years finally with you and for you. Concerts in the festive atmosphere of Brno churches. Tickets can be purchased online on the festival’s website or in advance at the Filharmonie Brno Ticket office in Besední Street.
Dramaturg Vladimír Maňas about upcoming year
The Easter festival of Sacred Music has been a space of resonance for many years: the songs (again) come to life in the sacred spaces and in the sacred time assigned to them. In addition to the musical experience itself, the festival gave the audience the opportunity to stop in those two weeks and in […]
GATES OF HELL TORN DOWN / About the concert
We have only fragmentary information about motets by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). Most were apparently performed at funeral services and six have been preserved, though he probably wrote more than that. At the time of Bach’s Leipzig engagement, this musical form was already considered somewhat outdated. But it was precisely his motets – unlike his […]
JOY AND CLARITY / About the concert
The opening Baroque work quotes the Easter hymn O filii et filiae (Ye sons and daughters). In the French Baroque tradition, the offertory was given a prominent position musically, affording considerable scope to the organist’s artistry. Jean-François Dandrieu (1682–1738) transforms the hymn’s stanzas using the form of variation partita and so employs the contrast between […]
SPANISH EASTER IN A RENAISSANCE ROME / About the concert
The Piazza Navona lay at the heart of the city of Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Built over the ruins of the Stadium of the Emperor Domitian, it retained the form of the Roman stadium and, lined with buildings, formed an ideal space for show – especially for religious processions. This […]
LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW, SOURCE OF CALM / TENEBRAE / About the concert
As the son of a German mother from Russia’s Volga region and a Jewish father hailing from Frankfurt am Main, Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (1934–1998) was predestined to ask himself often, “Where do I belong?” This question was made more pressing by his confrontation with life in Russia – its culture and other aspects – into […]
THY WILL BE DONE / TENEBRAE / About the concert
Josef Schreier was one of the many Czech teachers who, over the years, have brought musical culture to deprived rural areas. Our knowledge of him is very sketchy. We are certain that he was born on 8 January 1718 in Dřevohostice, near Přerov. There is evidence that in the years 1741–1760 he lived in Bílovice, […]
