Lufthansa Festival for Baroque Music: Gives Peace a Chance
TobiasOther highlights of the Lufthansa Festival for Baroque Music: A concert by Argentine-born soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr in conjunction with Concerto Soave under its director Jean-Marc Aymes , entitled „Et in terra pax“, which will predominantly be based on motets and instrumental music by Monteverdi, Mazzocchi, Frescobaldi and Legrenzi. A performance of battle music by Heinrich Biber, Johannes Schmelzer and others at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster.And finally, of course, the culmination of the one-week event at Westminster Abbey. On the last night, the Abbey’s choir will team up with St James’s Baroque under the direction of Organist James O’Donnell and dive headlong into John Blow’s anthems I was glad, Praise the Lord, O my soul and God spake sometime in visions. On top of that, there will be music from Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, written, like Rameau’s Nais, to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749, as well as his Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate, a joyous celebration of the Peace of Utrecht which ended the War of Spanish Succession and hostilities between England and France in 1713.
The Lufthansa Festival for Baroque Music has established itself as one of the foremost classical festivities of its kind in Europe over past , with a mix which Lindsay Kemp describes as „continuing our tradition of recognising the best in Baroque talent from home and abroad.“
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