Tchaikovsky

BRUCKNER
Motets

TCHAÏKOVSKI
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

The human voice, bare and powerful. A mystical confrontation between the Russian soul and Austrian fervour, for an a cappella experience of absolute purity.

This concert creates a dialogue between two great spiritual traditions through two rarely performed jewels of the choral repertoire. With Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, the music unfolds without instruments, carried entirely by the human voice. Deeply rooted in the Russian Orthodox tradition, it transforms the chorus into a space of prayer and inner elevation.

In counterpoint, Bruckner’s motets inscribe this quest within the Catholic universe. Written for the liturgy, they concentrate an intense expressive power in just a few pages, woven from silences, tensions, and moments of peace. Two kinds of writing, two rites, but one and the same experience of the sacred: a music of listening, of slowness and of depth, where the voice becomes a place of contemplation and memory.

Entirely a cappella, without a single instrument, this rare programme entrusts everything to the human voice. Performed by accentus—one of the most admired choirs in Europe—it is an experience of absolute bareness.