BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov

All the radioactive excitability and wicked irreverence of German composer Detlev Glanert in his latest major work, a spectacle for solo singers, choir and orchestra.

In 2016, Detlev Glanert chose to mark five centuries since the death of the painter Hieronymous Bosch, with a grand and extraordinary new work. Glanert’s Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch, unveiled that year in Amsterdam, combines the Latin texts of the Requiem Mass with selections from the medieval manuscript collection Carmina Burana. The result, for four soloists, two choirs, organ and orchestra, is an ‘inward spectacle’ equivalent in intensity to one of Bach’s passions but full of Glanert’s radioactive excitability and irreverence.

Semyon Bychkov leads the Orchestra, soloists and BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus in the UK premiere of this major new work.

Programme

Crecquillon
Toutes les nuictz
Qu’est il besoing
Tel est le tamps

Willaert O crux splendidior

Ockeghem Alma redemptoris mater

Glanert Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch (UK premiere)

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
Semyon Bychkov conductor
BBC Singers
Andrew Griffiths BBC Singers conductor
Aga Mikolaj soprano
Christa Mayer mezzo-soprano
Norbert Ernst tenor
Albert Pesendorfer bass-baritone