Vespers, Rachmaninov

Our journey will end with an inner journey to Sergei Rachmaninov's profound and spiritual Russia. With Vespers op. 37, the Chamber Choir of the Province of Luxembourg “Appassionato”, composed of sixteen singers and directed by Marie-Béatrice Nickers, invites you on a journey to the heart of the Orthodox tradition. This a cappella work deploys a soundscape made of darkness and light, evoking the vast Russian expanses, the slowness of time and the ancestral fervour of religious services. The low voices, the signature of this liturgy, anchor the music in an almost telluric depth, while the high voices rise like a breath of incense under the golden domes. Through this dense and meditative polyphony, Rachmaninov composes a prayer in which mysticism, silence and contemplation are mixed. This concert will end the festival with a sound pilgrimage, where our journey will end in the fervent intimacy of the sacred.