Name: Tenebrae Responsories
Start: 2017-04-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Aarhus Cathedral

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ArsNova

Conductor

Paul Hillier

Orchestra

Ars Nova

Singer

Hanna Kappelin

Soprano

Ann-Christin Wesser-Ingels

Kate Macoboy

Elenor Wiman

Alto

Laura Lamph

Hanne Marie le Fevre

Jakob Skjoldborg

Tenor

Paul Bentley-Angell

Adam Riis

Thomas Kiørbye

Bass

Asger Lynge Petersen

Ben McKee

Tenebrae Responsories

Copenhagen

Denmark

Aarhus Cathedral

Public

Larissa Andrea Pereira

Approved

Tomás Luis de Victoria's renaissance masterpiece the Tenebrae Responsories from 1585. One of the main pieces in music history and vocal music performed by Ars Nova Copenhagen led by Paul Hillier, a constellation that belong to the world elite when it comes to the performance of polyphonic vocal music form the Renaissance.Victoria's Responsories sometimes gives reminiscence of Italian madrigals in the way he processes the text. With discrete means he highlights individual words and passages. The eighteen responsories are all for four voices, but with widely varying constellation of singers, which adds to the work a wide palette of vocal colors. Victoria supplements the text musically without drowning it while at the same time creating a coherent and introspective tale.

The Tenebrae responsories are written to the Catholic Church's traditional evening matins of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Saturday. Tenebrae means shadows or darkness, which comes from the ritual associated with the service. Fifteen candles placed on a triangular candleholder called a hearse are extinguished one by one to symbolize Jesus' path into darkness. The candles represent Jesus himself, the supreme light, his disciples, where Judas is left out for obvious reasons, and the three women who went to the tomb after his death. The last candle isn't put out, but instead covered followed by the Strepitus (the big noise). The noise of the congregation slamming books on the stools and stamping on the floor symbolize the great earthquake after Jesus died. The noise continues until the candle is again placed in the hearse as a symbol of resurrection.

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Tenebrae Responsories by De Victoria, From (2017/2017), Conductor Paul Hillier, Aarhus Cathedral, Copenhagen, Denmark

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