RIAS KAMMERCHOR

The RIAS Kammerchor is one of the most important vocal ensembles on the scene today. ‎With 60 years of history, it has been the winner of several awards at the prestigious ECHO ‎KLASSIK awards, including for best ensemble in 2017. The RIAS Kammerchor comes to ‎L’Auditori with its new lead conductor, Justin Doyle, to perform a highly evocative ‎programme that combines past and present through the Requiems of Tomás ‎Luis de Victoria and Bernat Vivancos. Victoria, one of the most celebrated composers of the ‎Spanish Renaissance, composed his second Requiem in 1603 for the Office of ‎the Dead for the Holy Roman Empress Maria. The work has an austere and refined ‎polyphonic style that shines with extraordinary fervour within an atmosphere of spiritual ‎serenity. Vivancos, a composer with a special sensitivity for vocal music, leads us to a ‎luminous, plural meditation on the theme of transcendence in his Requiem of ‎‎2015. The music of Vivancos demonstrates an extraordinary material and conceptual richness ‎and exudes extreme beauty. The result is an enduring combination of contradictions that ‎speaks to us, from the most profound of places, of the complexity of the world.‎