November 24, 2024 (Sunday) | 7:00 PM
Festival Final Concert Music of the Soul - chant and sounds of world music
The Aula Magna of the Branicki Palace
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Performers:
- Dāvis Jurka - saxophone
- Schola Cantorum Riga (Łotwa)
Guntars Prānis — artistic director
Ansis Klucis
Kaspars Milasevics
Janis Moors
Martins Moors
Janis Kursevs
Rudolfs Bertins
Egils Jakobsons
Event description:
The concept of the program is based on a musical-visual performance, in which both Gregorian chant and early medieval polyphonic repertoire will be heard. All this sounded in monasteries and cathedrals in the Middle Ages. Medieval moods with improvisations will be joined by the saxophone, which will form a bridge to the present day with fresh, contemporary sounds. The entire program as a whole will form a unique conversation and musical synthesis of two eras.
The songs included in the concert highlight the ever-present theme - pilgrimage. The whole life of a person with its long, spiritual search is like a pilgrimage that takes place both in external searches and in the person himself. The concert program will allow you to experience something from this path, where everyone is invited to go...
PROGRAMME:
• In tympano et choro processionale
• Miserere mei Deus psalmus 51
• Kyrie eleison Cum iubilo IX
• Victimae paschali laudes & Kristus ir uzcēlies sequentia
• Veni Sancte Spiritus sequentia
• Corde natus ex parentis hymnus
• Angelus Domini offertorium
• Interludio Brillante
• Rosa rorans bonitatem hymnus St.Birgittae
• Fundata est antiphona
• Salve mater gracie cantio (Codex Specialnik, XV.c.)
• Ave gloriosa sequentia
• Fontes et omnia Antiphona & Magnificat
• Ubi caritas cantus
• Benedicamus Domino cantio
SCHOLA CANTORUM RIGA:
For already more than two decades, Schola Cantorum Riga has regularly performed Gregorian chant and other early music repertoires, basing its interpretation on studies of the oldest neume manuscripts. Over the years, it has developed into a group with a very broad and diverse repertoire.
Its main goal is to perform music at a high artistic and professional level, which is reflected in the group’s many concerts in Latvia and abroad as well as its regular recording projects. Although Schola Cantorum Riga mainly performs Medieval music, it also occasionally performs compositions by contemporary composers (Rihards Dubra, Henning Sommerro, Nic Gotham, Renāte Stivriņa, etc.), which have often been created specially for the group.
One of Schola Cantorum Riga’s most important venues is Riga Cathedral, where it has realised countless concert projects encompassing early music as well as premieres of compositions by contemporary composers.
The group regularly takes part in concerts and early music festivals in Latvia and abroad, where it has enjoyed the undivided attention of audiences in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Poland, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and elsewhere. In 2017 Schola Cantorum Riga was nominated for the Latvian Grand Music Award for outstanding performance.
DĀVIS JURKA:
Dāvis is finishing up his master’s at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and he also studied a year in Hamburg, Germany. Has performed in various festivals, including „Elbjazz” in Germany, „Rīgas Ritmi” and „Saulkrasti Jazz” in Latvia, as well as has collaborated with Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Diana Torto („HfMT Big band”, Hamburg, Germany), Jojo Mayer, „New York Voices”, Kurt Elling, Roberta Gambarini. Since 2012, Davis plays alto saxophone in the Latvian Radio Big Band.
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