Night Watch: Romantic Choral Music from Vienna

Chamber Choir Ireland explores the tranquil beauty of the nocturnal world in a concert of Romantic choral music from Vienna.

In Brahms' Fünf Gesänge (Op. 104) night watchmen blow their horns in the distance lamps are extinguished confidently and a wakeful soul asks the night to carry his love sighing back to him.

In Schubert's Sehnsucht a lover searches the sky and longs for their distant beloved and in his Gesang der Geister über den Wassern the stars admire themselves in a glassy lake.

In Hugo Wolf's six Geistliche Lieder (Holy Songs) a soul rests like a harboured ship while the world sleeps darkness climbs softly from the hills and a lone sailor sings across the still night.

At the centre of the programme Ligeti's iconic Lux Aeterna illuminates the night with eternal light in an avant-garde work made famous by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Join Ireland's national chamber choir and Grammy-winning conductor Paul Hillier this September for 'Night Watch: Romantic Choral Music from Vienna'.

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