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Ars Nova & Phillip Faber

Date
28.09.2024
Time
20:00 - 21:30
Location
The Library Hall
Price
150 DKK

Ars Nova & Phillip Faber

Experience the vocal ensemble Ars Nova Copenhagen and composer/conductor Phillip Faber in the Round Tower as they sing of both light and darkness in the Library Hall of the Round Tower.

For us in the Nordic region, light holds great significance. There is nothing as magical as the bright Nordic summers, when it feels like we live more than at other times of the year. The contrast to these bright summers — the dark winters — is also a crucial part of what defines us as Northerners. And even here in the southern part of the Nordic region, light and darkness in winter sometimes converge into a higher unity in the wondrous phenomenon we call the Northern Lights.

The evening’s program features music by Nordic composers such as Karin Rehnqvist, Hugo Alfvén, C.E.F. Weyse, and Bent Sørensen, but we also make a visit to a couple of our neighboring countries to the east and west with works by Scottish composer James McMillan and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The program also includes Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere, which, though not Nordic, was written for performance in Catholic Tenebrae services (shadow or darkness services).

Program

  • Karin Rehnqvist – Natt över jorden
  • Hugo Alfvén – Aftonen
  • Uti vår hage
  • Traditional arr. H. Parkman – Till Österland
  • Gregorio Allegri – Miserere
  • C.E.F. Weyse – Wanderers Nachtlied
  • Kari Bæk – Videmus nunc per speculum/Laudate Dominum
  • Bent Sørensen – In Paradisum
  • Arvo Pärt – Morning Star
  • Philip Faber – Hvis nu lyset (women only)
  • Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes (men only)
  • James MacMillan – Miserere
  • James MacMillan – O Radiant Dawn

Duration: Approximately 70 minutes.

Ars Nova Copenhagen was founded in 1979 and has long established itself as one of the world’s finest vocal ensembles. The ensemble specializes in interpreting the polyphonic choral music of the Renaissance and contemporary vocal music, performed with precision, intensity, and a sound that garners attention worldwide. Over the years, Ars Nova has toured in more than 35 countries.

Phillip Faber is one of Denmark’s leading conductors, composers, and musical personalities. Many in Denmark know Phillip Faber from TV sing-along broadcasts during the COVID-19 lockdown or as the host of programs like The Classical Music Quiz on DR2. But above all, he is a conductor and composer, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. As a conductor, he moves between orchestral and vocal music; as a composer, between the Nordic simplicity and the complex; and as a communicator, between warmth and education.

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