Concert: Apparitions

This concert featured two immense works: Messiaen’s soul-shaking, earth-shattering vision of the Eternal Church, and Vasks’ celebration of the liberation of his homeland, Latvia, from Soviet oppression. Around them, JS Bach’s impossibly fine tapestry of sound, just as dazzling when the music is turned inside out and upside down; and Lydia Kavina turned the unearthly sounds of the theremin into a vision of the dangerous, seductive Siren, Fata Morgana.

Programme

JS Bach Mirror Fugue
Priya Mitchell violin, Hugo Ticciati violin, Nathan Braude viola, Claude Frochaux cello

Pēteris Vasks Te Deum
Thomas Fetherstonhaugh organ

Kavina Fata Morgana
Lydia Kavina theremin and loop station

Messiaen Apparition de l’église éternelle
Thomas Fetherstonhaugh organ

• Part of the Oxford Chamber Music Festival