‘Il Gardellino & Vlaams Radiokoor’

Thread after thread, colour after colour, layer after layer. This concert weaves a compelling musical fabric that offers contemplation and reflection in 14 parts, as many as the stations of Christ’s cross, but from a female perspective. As a contemporary response to Buxtehude’s cycle of cantatas Membra Jesu Nostri, Caroline Shaw has written To the Hands in which she questions our role in the wounds of today’s society. Maybe there is blood on other hands than those of the crucified Jesus. In Ad Genua, the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir calls for greater tolerance, and Patricia Van Ness brings hope and trust in Cor meum est Templum Sacrum. Il Gardellino and the Vlaams Radiokoor led by Bart Van Reyn extend the Passion into a resilient story of suffering and empowerment.