Night Watch: Romantic Choral Music from Vienna

Chamber Choir Ireland explores the tranquil beauty of the nocturnal world, in this programme of Romantic choral music from Vienna.

In Brahms’ Fünf Gesänge (Op. 104), night watchmen blow their horns in the distance, lamps are extinguished confidently, and a wakeful soul asks the night to carry his love sighing back to him.

In Schubert’s Sehnsucht, a lover searches the sky and longs for their distant beloved, and in his Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, the stars admire themselves in a glassy lake.

In Hugo Wolf’s six Geistliche Lieder (Holy Songs), a soul rests like a harboured ship while the world sleeps, darkness climbs softly from the hills, and a lone sailor sings across the still night.

At the centre of the programme, Ligeti’s iconic Lux Aeterna illuminates the night with eternal light in an avant-garde work made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Join Ireland’s national chamber choir and Grammy-winning conductor, Paul Hillier, this September for ‘Night Watch: Romantic Choral Music from Vienna’.