programme
Robert Heppener (1925-2009) To Make a Prairie (from Dear March, come in)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Bogoroditse Devo
Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) Vox in Rama
Luca Marenzio (1553-1599) Crudele, acerba, inexorabil morte
Frank Martin (1890-1974) Full fathom five (from Songs of Ariel)
David Lang (*1957) when it is time for me to go (from: the little match girl passion)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (from Elias)
Rudolf Escher (1912-1980) Heart, we will forget him! (from Songs of love and eternity)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Bois Meurtri (from Un soir de neige)
Wolfgang Rihm (*1952) Tenebrae factae sunt and Aestimatus sum (from Sieben Passions-Texte)
performers
Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss conductor
Roeland Fernhout lectures
Nina Spijkers director
background
Cappella Amsterdam presents the story “The Grand Inquisitor,” which is part of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s world-famous novel The Brothers Karamazov. The story will be narrated by actor Roeland Fernhout and performed with appropriate choral music from various periods, conducted by our chief conductor Daniel Reuss.
What is the story of the Grand Inquisitor about?
In Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the story of the Grand Inquisitor tells of Jesus returning to Earth in the 16th century. The Grand Inquisitor argues that Jesus’s original message is too complex. Therefore, the Church has processed and adapted that message into bite-sized pieces. Jesus’s sudden return only disrupts the established order…