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Collegium Vocale Luzern - Farewell and Welcome
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Open in the appFarewell and Welcome Choral works by Hubert Parry and Johann Sebastian Bach, excerpts from Bach's «Art of Fugue» for organ Having to say goodbye to a loved one is surely one of the hardest things. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his famous motets for choir as funeral music for… Farewell and Welcome Choral works by Hubert Parry and Johann Sebastian Bach, excerpts from Bach's «Art of Fugue» for organ Having to say goodbye to a loved one is surely one of the hardest things. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his famous motets for choir as funeral music for deceased family members and musicians close to him – works of farewell, but also of hope for a welcome in another world. Hubert Parry (1848–1918), one of England's most influential music educators and Bach biographer, said multiple farewells with what is probably his most important work, the late choral cycle «Songs of Farewell»: Seriously ill himself, World War I robbed him of some of his most talented students and also seriously disrupted musical connections between England and Germany. The Collegium Vocale and Freddie James juxtapose Bach's and Parry's legacy works – music of farewell and welcome, passing and renewal. Performers Collegium Vocale at Franziskanern Luzern Freddie James | Organ Ulrike Grosch | Conductor Tickets CHF 35.– CHF 20.– for students / pupils (box office)