Heavenly Bodies

“Heavenly Bodies” entwines Renaissance and contemporary music together to create a cosmic aural sphere, inviting the audience to enter a state of focus and meditation to experience the effects of music on the body. The ethereal music has been woven together under the inspiration of the Renaissance theory of the “music of the spheres:” the planets' proportions to each other and their movements create harmonies in the heavens. These harmonies can be recreated on earth through music, creating a physical connection to the universe. Exploring historical microtonality through increasingly sonically provocative Renaissance music, and culminating with a new spiralic work written especially for the ensemble Hourglass, this unique, celestial performance illuminates the blend of what you hear and what you physically experience when encountering polyphony.

Music by Josquin Desprez, Orlando di Lasso, Madalena Casulana, Raffaela Aleotti, Vicenzo Galilei, Carlo Gesualdo, Nicola Vicentino und Mara Winter.

Hourglass:
Johanna Bartz, Tommaso Simonetta Sandri, Charlotte Schneider // Renaissancetraverso
Mara Winter // Composition and renaissance traverso
Liane Sadler // Conductor and renaissance traverso

The concert lasts 60 minutes.

Sunday, 20. October
Kuppelhalle
Doors 5 pm / Start 6 pm
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