Lamentatio Cantando Admont
Ltg: Cordula Bürgi
KRENEK, OCKEGHEM
The Austrian vocal ensemble Cantando Admont will perform two works referencing the existential experience of grief and hope across the centuries. Johannes Ockeghem’s Requiem, composed around 1460 and considered the first complete requiem mass in the history of music, unfolds a timeless musical language. Ernst Krenek composed his Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae in 1941/42 while in exile in the USA. It reflects personal and historical upheavals of the 20th century in poignant vocal polyphony: a musical lament on loss, exile and longing.
For Krenek, Ockeghem was a radical, independent composer. Krenek compared Ockeghem’s isolation with his own status as a non-conformist and felt they shared a common spiritual path. In the Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae, Krenek blends Ockeghem’s Renaissance techniques with twelve-tone music. Together, the works establish a musical space with a direct dialogue between lament and consolation, despair and confidence.
Cantando Admont
Dir: Cordula Bürgi
Programme:
Johannes OCKEGHEM Requiem
Ernst KRENEK Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae, op. 93
