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Ora Pro Nobis II: Space, Place and the Practice of Saints’ Cults across the Reformations MARCH 12‐13 2015 in Copenhagen Concert 12 March at 19.00: Saints and Holiness in Music across the Reformations Trinitatis Church, Copenhagen (FREE ADMISSION) Camilla Toldi Bugge, soprano, Christian Damsgaard, tenor, Rasmus Kure Thomsen, bass, Merete Steffensen, violin, Søren Christian Vestergaard, organ Programme: Antiphona super Magnificat: Ave martyr dux Danorum (First Vespers) from The Offices and Masses of St. Knud Lavard (ed. by John Bergsagel, 2010), 12th century. Skiønt at quede om sancte Knud, (How beautiful to sing about Saint Knud) A ballad from the 16th‐century Rentzel manuscript (Royal Library, Copenhagen, printed in Danske Viser fra Adelsvisebøger og Flyveblade, ed. H. Grüner‐Nielsen, 1978). At the concert, 6 out of 10 stanzas are sung. Der risler en Kilde i Haraldsted Skov (A spring runs in Haraldsted Forest) From Fem fædrelandshistoriske sange (Five National Historical Songs), Composed by Niels W. Gade (1817‐90) in 1840. Text, Hans Peter Holst (1811‐93): Hr. Magnus han rider, Text adapted from a poem of Carsten Hauch (1790‐1872), musical setting Henrik Rung (1807‐71) The poem was part of Carsten Hauch’s tragedy Svend Grathe eller Kongemødet i Roskilde (1841; Svend Grathe or the Meeting of the Kings in Roskilde) Elisabeth’s Prayer from Richard Wagner’s (1813–1883) Tannhäuser (1845, revised 1860/61), Act 3: Hr. Magnus han stirrer i Vinternatten ud, A setting of Carsten Hauch’s poem (see the text above!) by Niels W. Gade (1849) 2
Aase’s Prayer from Peter Heise’s (1830–79) Drot og Marsk (1879), Act 4, libretto by Christian Richardt (1831–92): Rued Langgaard (1893–1952): Fantasi over ‘Dronning Dagmar ligger i Ribe syg’ Phantasy on the folktune ‘Queen Dagmar lies ill in Ribe’ (1942) Miracle, composed 2015 by Nils Holger Petersen (b. 1946) to a poem by Seamus Heaney (1939–2013). Composed for this occasion, first performance. Text, “Miracle” from Human Chain (London: Faber and Faber, 2010). Short introductions to the music will be given by Nils Holger Petersen This concert has been sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF) within the framework of the EUROCORES Programme entitled 'European Comparisons in Regional Cohesion, Dynamics and Expressions' as part of the conference Ora pro nobis II in collaboration with the National Museum of Denmark and Trinitatis Church. The conference – including the concert – is connected to two recent projects at the University of Copenhagen (Faculty of Theology resp. Faculty of the Humanities) in collaboration with international partners: the ESF collaborative project Symbols that Bind and Break Communities: Saints' Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities and Danish Historical Writing before 1225 and its Intellectual Context in Medieval Europe funded by the Danish Research Council of the Humanities.