Hymns to the Night
Special programs
Hymns to the Night
The New Franz Liszt Chamber Chorus's Hymns for the Night promises a dynamic concert with many surprises for the audience. The innovative choral voicing, the combination of instruments with the human voice (tuned glass pipes, piano, string quartet) and the progressive effects used in the works are unusual, but also extremely exciting. The programme for the concert is based around the theme of the night. The subtitle of the programme – A Psychedelic Choral Concert – uses a common enough adjective in the world of pop and rock, implying a kind of trance state that can be associated with the night, silence, dreams or even the subconscious. The music will be accompanied by a projection to help the listener take in the works themselves, and the choral pieces will be preceded or interrupted by a string quartet and piano playing "pieces of the night" to help deepen the mood. The final piece of the performance, a work by Ola Gjeilo to a text by St. John of the Cross, will bring together the choir, string quartet and piano. In the context of Gjeilo's work, the night represents a cleansing of the soul.
