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Darkness / George Herbert / Nigel Short

Name: Darkness / George Herbert / Nigel Short
Start: 2025-10-23T20:00:00
Location: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

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The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt acts as a pivot within music history. On the one hand, he is one of the most successful composers of so-called New Music, even though he quickly distanced himself aesthetically from the experiments of the post-war avant-garde. On the other hand, medieval Gregorian chant – "music with soul, without harmony or meter," as he once said – served as his greatest source of inspiration. In this respect, it seems only logic...

Program

Orlando Gibbons - The Hymnes and Songs of the Church

Arvo Pärt - The Woman with the Alabaster Box

Sir John Tavener - Song for Athene

William Byrd - Hail, true body

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Participants

Nigel Short

Conductor

George Herbert

Organ

Darkness