Baltic Blues
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| Country and Region | Ireland — Dublin |
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| Type of Festival | Music |
| Location of Festival | Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
| Festival Address Information | The National Chamber Choir |
| Festival Description | Acclaimed conductor Paul Hillier will commence his tenure as the new director of Ireland’s National Chamber Choir (NCC) this summer with Baltic Blues, a three-month international programme of choral music from countries bordering the Baltic Sea.Along with Paul Hillier, Baltic Blues will welcome conductors Bo Holten (founding conductor of Denmark’s Ars Nova) and Kaspars Putnins, as well as James Wood who will conduct the NCC for the first time. This series will also welcome back special guests, The Rascher Saxophone Quartet. |
| Festival Dates | May 22 - July 24, 2008 |
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Festival Events:
Schedule 2008:
- Programme 1 - Bo Holten
- May 22, NGI, Dublin, 6:30pm, Tickets €14/12
16th Century music predominantly composed by Italians employed at churches and courts in the Baltic Area.
Paulus Bucenus Philorodus (Vilnius): Converte Domine
Johann Stobaeus (Riga): Lauda coeli
Bo Holten (Copenhagen): A Time for Everything
Vincenzo Bertolusi (Riga, Copenhagen): Ego flos campi
Leonhard Lechner (Nürnberg, Copenhagen): In laudem Regii fontis
Henryk Gorecki (Krakow): Totus Tuus
Luca Marenzio (Krakow, Vilnius): Deus venerunt gentes, Exsurgat Deus, Di nettare amoroso, and Donne, il celeste lume
- May 22, NGI, Dublin, 6:30pm, Tickets €14/12
- Programme 2 - Paul Hillier
- June 11, The Harty Room, Queen’s University, Belfast, 7:45pm, Tickets£12/10
- June 12, SSMJ, Dublin, 6:30pm, Tickets €14/12
Per Nørgard: The Year Dietrich Buxtehude: Missa alla brevis
Veljo Tormis: Bishop and Pagan Vaclovas Augustinas: Lux aeterna
Dmitry Bortniansky: Choral concerto
Galina Grigorjeva: Svyatki
- Programme 3 - Kaspars Putins
- June 25, The Harty Room, Queen’s University, 7:45pm, Tickets£12/10
- June 26, NGI, 6.30pm, Tickets €14/12
Peteris Vasks: Mother Sun Peteris Plakidis: Choral symphony ‘Destiny’ Veljo Tormis: Three parts from the Latvian Burdon Songs Veljo Tormis: Tower Bell of my Village
Juris Karlsons: The Unclosed Ring
- Programme 4 - James Wood with the Rascher Saxophone Quartet
- July 24, NGI, 6:30pm,Tickets €14/12
Johann Sebastian Bach: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden Motette BWV 230 Errki-Sven Tuur: Meditatio Erland von Koch: Miniatyrer för Saxophonquartett, Intermezzo lirico, Marcia piccolo, Fantasia svedese, and Rondo giocoso
Bernd Franke: On the Dignity of Man
- July 24, NGI, 6:30pm,Tickets €14/12
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