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Programme:

Dvořák's Requiem

Conductor: Torsten Mariegaard

Concerts:

15th of March at 16:00 in Grundtvigs Kirke

22nd of March at 16:00 in Helligaandskirken

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Notes about the programme

Dvorák's best-known church music is the Stabat Mater, but after its great success he wrote another large-scale church music work - a Latin requiem that contains all the great and dramatic emotions of Romanticism and shows his heartfelt faith and spiritual commitment.

It is not played that often in Denmark, but it definitely deserves to be heard and experienced by a large audience.

It is strange that Dvorák's incredibly beautiful, dramatic, monumental and honest musical exposition of the Requiem Mass has not been given its rightful place in today's musical life.

Death was no stranger to Dvorák. He and his wife lost their first three children within a few years in the late 1870s. Moreover, few, if any, aspects of life are as inspiring to religious faith as the fear of death and death itself. And nothing matches the spectrum of emotions that people express in the face of death, from rage and denial to resignation and hope. - but music offers us a unique path to comfort.

Dvořák began work on the Requiem in late 1889 and completed it in October 1890. The world premiere of the work took place on 9 October 1891 in Birmingham, with Dvořák himself conducting.

The reception exceeded all expectations. The leading contemporary conductor Hans Richter, who did much to promote Dvořák's work on the international stage, described the Requiem as a masterpiece in which "there are places that make us want to cry out in pain and joy."

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Poulenc's Organ Concerto

Laukvik's Organ Concerto

Lauri's Organ Concerto

Conductor: Carl-Oscar Østerlind

Concerts:

12th of April at 16:00 in Helligaandskirken

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Notes about the programme

For the grand reopening concert, something as rare as three organ concertos by Poulenc, Laukvik and Lauri will be performed, where the organ plays together with the Copenhagen Youth Symphony Orchestra KUSO under the direction of Carl-Oscar Østerlind.

Many are familiar with piano concertos and violin concertos, but the organ can also be used for interplay, and provide exciting dynamics and tonal nuances. Take this opportunity to hear the organ unfold in the church's new acoustics!

We present works by French Francis Poulenc, Canadian Rachel Laurin and German/Norwegian Jon Laukvik. Soloists are Rainer Oster and the church's organists Ruben Munk and Ørjan Horn Johansen.

Free admission