"With the wonderful Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra we are presently
exploring Schubert's quatuor ‘Death and the maiden’. Of course we have
to include Schubert’s earlier song with the same title on the poem of
Matthias Claudius. This song belongs to the medieval tradition of the
dance of death. Therefore we also play "Toden Tanz" (with poor me
dancing), an ancient death dance written up by the German organ player
August Nörmiger (1560-1613). Schubert’s song and the slow movement of
his quatuor use the solemn rhythm of a Pavan, so we also play one of
Dowland’s Pavans from "Seaven Teares". Add to this "Moro lasso" a
madrigal about death by the famous Renaissance composer (and murderer!)
Gesualdo. In between we also refresh our ears with other unsettling
works by modern composers like György Kurtag and Heinz Holliger." (Patricia Kopatchinskaja)"With the wonderful Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra we are presently
exploring Schubert's quatuor ‘Death and the maiden’. Of course we have
to include Schubert’s earlier song with the same title on the poem of
Matthias Claudius. This song belongs to the medieval tradition of the
dance of death. Therefore we also play "Toden Tanz" (with poor me
dancing), an ancient death dance written up by the German organ player
August Nörmiger (1560-1613). Schubert’s song and the slow movement of
his quatuor use the solemn rhythm of a Pavan, so we also play one of
Dowland’s Pavans from "Seaven Teares". Add to this "Moro lasso" a
madrigal about death by the famous Renaissance composer (and murderer!)
Gesualdo. In between we also refresh our ears with other unsettling
works by modern composers like György Kurtag and Heinz Holliger." (Patricia Kopatchinskaja)
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