Hear my prayer / Rejoice in the Lamb / Pilgrim Jésus / A Midsummer Night's Dream

by Félix Mendelssohn / Benjamin Britten / Stephen Paulus / Félix Mendelssohn

  • Music
  • Cycle of sacred music
The 2017 archive

Ensemble vocal Campana

Hear my prayer / Rejoice in the Lamb / Pilgrim Jésus / A Midsummer Night's Dream © DR

Presentation

Hear my prayer by Félix Mendelssohn, Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten, Pilgrim Jésus by Stephen Paulus for mixed choir and organ, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Félix Mendelssohn for four hands organ.

Musique sacrée et Orgue en Avignon, in partnership with the Festival d'Avignon, offer a cycle of concerts/readings to showcase the historic organs in Avignon and its area. For the 71st edition of the Festival, the spotlight will be on poems by Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi, alternating with improvisations for organ and accordion and works for organ and flute by Claude Debussy, Jehan Alain, and André Jolivet, and a creation for organ by Nigerian composer Charles Uzor.

Distribution

Vocal group Campana
Direction Jean-Paul Joly
Organ Jean-Michel Robbe
Organ four hands Olivier Vernet et Cédric Meckler

Production

Co-production Musique Sacrée et Orgue en Avignon, Festival d'Avignon
In partnership with Mairie de Roquemaure, association des Amis de l'Orgue de Roquemaure, Mairie de Malaucène, association des Amis de l'Orgue de Malaucène, Festival des Choeurs Lauréats de Vaison-la-Romaine

Practical infos

Pictures

Collégiale St Agricol © F. Barrot

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