Latvian Radio Choir Concert (Ticket Required)

At Duke Chapel, the Latvijas Radio Koris, as they are known at home, sing a largely sacred program of music from the sixteenth century to the present day. Their program is bookended by two Venetian renaissance motets from Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sacrae Symphoniae, and includes early sacred works by Gesualdo and Purcell; modern sacred works by Stravinsky, Messiaen, and Pärt; and arrangements of haunting Mahler lieder — Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen and Die zwei blauen Augen — that work beautifully in a sacred context. The concert would not be complete without a Latvian composition: Pēteris Vasks’ Our Mothers’ Names, which mixes ancient sonorities with stunning modern counterpoint.

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