REGARDE ICI BAS concert

REGARDE ICI BAS

Spirito Choir – Unisoni Ensemble – direction Nicole Corti

Jean-Sebastian Bach and Zad Moultaka have music in common, but also spiritual care and the art of joy. A serious and deep joy, anchored in a form of pessimism towards the human community. For the Lebanese composer and visual artist … Avec Regarde Ici-bas,
some of which are particularly spectacular, it evokes the current conflict in the Middle East or Bush’s politics. In contrast, he summons Johann Sebastian Bach, a political musician too, in his own way and in his time, , to compose electoral cantatas. From this alternation between the baroque music of the Leipzig cantor and today’s Zad Moultaka, a dialogue of timeless beauty is created. on stage, magnificent performers capable of passing from a Motet or the Magnificat of Bach, to a more radical score for mixed choir and bass drum.
Zad Moultaka (1967-)
NON for percussion and electronic band(2006)
I had a Dream for mixed choir and bass drum(2007)
Regarde Ici-bas
for sixteen mixed voices a cappella (2016)

Jean-Sébastien Bach (1685-1750)
Motet BWV 225 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Motet BWV 230 Lobet dem Herrn

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