A Meeting of Two Masters

Wednesday, Oct 7th 2015 - 7:30pm
Arranged by: Tikøb kirke

Ockeghem, the fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish guru of spiritual counterpoint,
and Arvo Pärt, eighty this year, the Estonian magus of mystic minimalism.

Although they generally use very different methods to create their sound-worlds, 
yet they usually seem to arrive at the same place.
Ockeghem's Missa Mi-Mi is named for its opening melodic motif, 
but beyond that, Ockeghem always seems to do the unexpected, 
and no-one has yet really explained how or why this music achieves such inevitable beauty. 
Pärt's music is almost easy to explain, at one level, but no-one has yet really explained why, 
by doing the expected, he always creates the unexpected. 

Our program interweaves motets by Pärt among the movements of Ockeghem's great Mass.

PROGRAMME:

 

Arvo Pärt Alleluia-Tropus
Johannes Ockeghem Missa Mi-Mi: Kyrie, Gloria
Arvo Pärt The woman with the alabaster box 
Johannes Ockeghem Missa Mi-Mi: Credo
Arvo Pärt I am the true vine   
Johannes Ockeghem Missa Mi-Mi: Sanctus & Benedictus  
Arvo Pärt Tribute to Caesar
Johannes Ockeghem Missa Mi-Mi: Agnus Dei

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