Stimmen der Stadt • Hannoversche Chöre

In the organizer's words:

Hanover choirs: Bach Choir, Collegium Vocale, Johannes Brahms Choir, Junges Vokalensemble, Boys' Choir, Girls' Choir, North German Figural Choir, Vivid Voices

The voices of the city resound in Hanover on this evening: in museums, art associations and churches, multi-colored worlds of sound unfold, presented by the great choirs of Hanover and the light artist Franz Betz.

Voices of the City is a joint project of the KunstFestSpiele, the Hanover Cultural Office and the Night of the Museums and invites the public to drift through the city from concert to concert. Individually or on two guided routes. The routes between the venues allow you to consciously catch your breath, to make a transition, to pause between the different sound spaces. The evening concludes with a joint finale in the Marktkirche, in which the choirs join forces and transform the space into a floating, polyphonic sound experience with Thomas Tallis' Spem in alium and Johannes Ockeghem's Deo gratia à 36, among others.

The program of this musical journey spans more than eight centuries of music history - from the sonorous beginnings of polyphony with Pérotin and Ockeghem through the Renaissance and Baroque to Romantic soundscapes and the expressive forms of modern and contemporary music. Spiritual, romantic, experimental: all these tonal languages are on an equal footing here. The result is a mosaic of styles, aesthetics and cultural perspectives that celebrates the timeless power of the human voice.

Included are works by David Lang, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pérotin, Antoine Brumel, Paul Gerhardt, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Duruflé, Oliver Messiaen, John Cage, Benjamin Britten, Jacob Collier, Peter Cornelius, Thomas Tallis, Johannes Ockeghem and many more.

All concerts can be experienced in their entirety or individually.

Further information at: https://kunstfestspiele.de/stimmen-der-stadt/

Price information:

available from mid-March via Night of the Museums