To ensure a good balance of voices, we will no longer be accepting Alto, Mezzo or Soprano registrations for these ateliers. Registrations made up to and including April 30 will be validated.
Written by Schubert in the year of his death, the cantata “Mirjams Siegesgesang” features Moses’ sister Miriam, who is hunted down with her people by Pharaoh’s troops, only to be swallowed up in the waters of the Red Sea, opened by the prophet. This intensely dramatic work oscillates between distress, fear, hope and exaltation, inviting the choir to bring out the deepest springs of its own expressivity.
Following in his illustrious predecessor’s footsteps, Schumann too became fascinated by the unrivalled power of the combination of piano and voice. In “Belsatzar”, he in turn evokes the story of a godless monarch who, having committed blasphemy, perished the very evening a warning appeared in letters of fire on the walls of his palace…
