New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir Presented by Liszt Academy

Night has been a preferred topic for Romanticism – either in painting, in poetry or in music. Its museful symbolism inspired choral literature too – Schumann’s extraordinary-sounding cycle for double chorus, for instance, reveals dreamily the mysteries of the night lit by the stars. As ’there’s always light, even in the night’, this twofold symbol characterizes both the melodies and the lyrics of well-woven reneissance motets as well as their 20th century echoes – like compositions by Japanese Ko Matsushita –  given that all of these are involving the ancient topos.

Beside the Debussy-contemporary Delius, works by Kodály and Poulenc as well as the recently-deceased Finnish Rautavaara and generation X members born in the seventies – Latvian Ešenvalds, American Whitacre and three Hungarian contemporary composers – are included in this uplifting program.