Program

Alexander Lüken and the Hungarian Radio Choir

Magyar Rádió Művészeti Együttesei, Matthias Church
Szentháromság tér 2., 1014 Budapest

GRAND. MAGICAL. IMPRESSIVE.

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01 Mar 2027 Monday, 8:00PM

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Alexander Lüken is Assistant to the Cologne Radio Choir, Artistic Director of Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke and founder of the award-winning Junger Kammerchor Köln. His repertoire is very diverse, but he feels particularly close to those large-scale and complex works that are rarely performed. He is currently working on the world premiere recording of Mendelssohn’s contemporary Friedrich Schneider’s ‘Christus Trilogy’. This piece was rediscovered after 150 years. At this concert, Alexander Lüken, working with theChoir of the Hungarian National Radio, also conducts a rarely performed work. The piece ‘Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom’ was written during Rachmaninoff’s most productive period in the early 1910s. Partly because of the language and partly because of unfamiliarity with the liturgical tradition, Western choirs shied away from performing this large-scale choral cycle for a long time.

Program
S. Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Conductor
Alexander Lüken

Artists
Hungarian Radio Choir (chief conductor: Máté Szabó Sipos)