Kryštof Harant: Journey to the Holy Land
The congenial interconnection of Kryštof Harant’s Renaissance polyphony with the musical world of the Middle East can be heard live in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum on 31 March 2025.
Harant’s travelogue runs through the programme like a unifying thread and his compositions are interwoven with the music he might have heard on his journey to the Holy Land. The result is a unique musical language – in many of the pieces you will hear microtones originating from Middle Eastern modal traditions enriched by European vocal polyphony, and vice versa. This inspiring encounter of seemingly distant musical worlds highlights, among other things, the very timely theme of the intermingling of different cultures and the search for a common language in today’s globalised world.
Tickets are already available online.
The concert is organised by the Czech Chamber Music Society.
CAPPELLA MARIANA
Hana BLAŽÍKOVÁ, Barbora KABÁTKOVÁ | soprano
Tomáš LAJTKEP, Ondrej HOLUB | tenor
Jaromír NOSEK | bass
Vojtěch SEMERÁD | tenor, artistic director
Saša RAŠILOV | narrator
CONSTANTINOPLE
Didem BAŞAR | kanun
Patrick GRAHAM | percussion
Neva ÖZGEN | kemençe
Kiya TABASSIAN | voice, setar, artistic director
There are spiritual and secular programs, but there are also fusions of both that have the potential to reach everyone. Sometimes these fusions are artificial and there is not the same intensity of intermingling. However, the fusion of Cappella Mariana and Constantinople was exceptional, yielded rich fruit and experience, and was truly worldly.
Tomáš Cidlina, Klasikaplus.cz, 22. 9. 2024