Huelgas Ensemble & Minguet Quartet: Musikfest Berlin

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Berlin's concert season will begin with a big bang: the "musikfest berlin 2011" will take place from the 2nd to the 20th of September.

In Wolfgang Rihm’s "Et Lux", composed in 2009, the vocal and instrumental components meet on equal terms, a four‐part vocal ensemble and a string quartet. The music of "Et Lux" at times recalls the tranquil flow that we know from the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance, but with contours sharpened, structures roughened and breaks in the flow: a 21st‐century piece with an awareness of long tradition, the accord reached between a pair of monochrome ensembles, purified, concentrated and powerfully illuminated.

Huelgas Ensemble:
Axelle Bernage, Sabine Lutzenberger cantus
Terry Wey, Achim Schulz altus
Stefan Berghammer, Matthew Vine tenor
Tim Whiteley, Martin Backhaus bassus

Minguet Quartett:
Ulrich Isfort 1st violin
Annette Reisinger 2nd violin
Aroa Sorin viola
Matthias Diener cello

Conducted by Paul Van Nevel