NDR Vokalensemble / Martina Bati

• Concerts

Martina Bati has already conducted the world’s best choirs such as the Swedish Radio Choir and the Bavarian Radio Choir. Now the Slovenian is visiting the NDR Vokalensemble as a guest conductor. For her debut, Martina Bati has chosen contemporary vocal works from Northern Europe and the Baltic States. Sven-David Sandström’s elegiac choral music »Sonnets of Darkness and Love« opens the programme. Dedicated to his compatriot, the Swedish jazz musician Nils Landgren, wistful blues vocals and the warm sounds of a trombone rise above the muted vocal texture. Other composers on the programme are the Brit James MacMillan, the Latvian Maija Einfelde and the Finn Einojuhani Rautavaara.

PERFORMERS

NDR Vokalensemble choir

Kris Garfitt trombone

Martina Batic director

PROGRAM

»Nordische Klänge« (Nordic Sounds)

James MacMillan
O bone Jesu

Maija Einfelde
Three Poems by Fricis Barda

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Lorca Suite

- Interval -

Sven David Sandström
Sonnets of Darkness and Love