Baroque concert set in space: «REQUIEM 16.90»

Name: Baroque concert set in space: «REQUIEM 16.90»
Start: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Jean

In the remarkable setting of the Romanesque church of Saint-Jean, highlighted for the occasion, the singers of Saint-Himaire Sauternes perform the show “REQUIEM 16.90”: from darkness to lum…

Sunday 17 September 2023, 17:00Passed

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20 € adult. 15 € job seekers, school and students. Free -13 years. On registration.

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In the remarkable setting of the Romanesque church of Saint-Jean, highlighted for the occasion, the cantors of Saint-Himaire Sauternes interpret the show «REQUIEM 16.90»: from darkness to light around baroque music of the French seventeenth century. Astrid Vehstedt is responsible for the layout. 15 musicians occupy the architectural and acoustic space of the church. From darkness to light... It is a musical time between earth and sky, between baroque and timeless, from night to light; mode of escape in a hectic world. Around Louis Chein’s harmonised plainsong mass of 1690, there is a comparison of the gallican plainsong of the cathedral of Versailles of 1686, an astonishing and mobile setting. The plainchant which seems motionless then meets the movement to give rise to a particular emotion. The 6 singers are accompanied by sound and organic instruments: horns, sacqueboute, snake and continuo.
Director: François-Xavier Lacroux.

About the location

Église Saint-Jean

33420 Saint-Jean-de-Blaignac

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

'St. John’s Church is a Romanesque building built on a site dating back to antiquity (later occupied by a Merovingian necropolis). The narrow windows and nave walls date back to this Romanesque period. The façade dates from the Gothic period, the gable wall, the portal and the nave (the same nave is now more than ten metres wide). During the Wars of Religion, the building was fortified: The first town hall of the town was installed in the sacristy (itself dated from the middle of the seventeenth century). The two bells of the church are dated from the early nineteenth century.