The second concert of the festival “Les Lumières” was held in the Helsinki Old Church. Helsinki Old Church suited really well this year’s theme, since it is situated in the middle of so called “Plague Park” (not the official name of the park, but that is how everybody calls it), which is next to the area where victims of the 1710 plague epidemic were buried. In this second concert called Requiem – for the solace of all, Concerto Soave performed “Messe des morts” by Jean Gilles, which is one of the best-known masses of the 18th century and was composed to celebrate the end of the plague epidemic.
I really liked this concert. The music was easily recognizable
for French baroque music, but it was pleasant to listen to and the soloists
were rather good. The work consisted of seven parts: Requiem aeternam (Introït),
Kyrie, Requiem aeternam (Graduel), Domine Jesu Christe, Sanctus, Agnus Dei and
Lux aeterna. I cannot say which part was my favourite, since they all had something
special.
Out of the soloists I perhaps liked best tenor Robert
Getschell, but it may be that it was because he began the singing part and sang
actually quite a lot. But I do have to say that the French pronunciation of Latin
is a bit funny, when e.g. the word lux is pronounced “lyks”. So, if you were
not entertained enough by the music, you could count this kind of interesting
pronunciation details.
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