Podcast: Pietà
episode 13: Bart & Pietà
The Flemish Radio Choir presents the concert series Pietà: music around the iconic depiction of the Virgin Mary with her dead son Jesus on her lap. A raw and intense image. It recalls grief and loss, but also the primal love of a mother for her child, and the strength and redemption hidden in it.
Many composers wrote music to this heartbreaking emotion, from Giaches de Wert to Arvo Pärt, from Vivaldi to James MacMillan. In music we find comfort, security and musical mastery. Bart Van Reyn and Sander De Keere dig into it in this podcast episode.
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>> experience Pietà live in the concert hall on 19, 20, 22 & 23 March 2024
Is there anything more beautiful than the human voice? The consonance, the harmony, the magic - the emotions.
In the podcast series Vocal Fabric, music director Bart Van Reyn takes Klara presenter Sander De Keere into that wonderful world of the voice, and more specifically the voices of the Flemish Radio Choir...