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Sendesaal Bremen

Sendesaal Bremen

Chamber Music Concert

Dark With Excessive Bright – Sendesaal Bremen, Bremen

Date
Thursday, 26 November 2026
Time
19:30
Venue
Sendesaal Bremen
Address
Bürgermeister-Spitta-Allee 45, 28329 Bremen-Vahr, Germany
City
Bremen
Price range
29 €

About this event

Presented as the 4th Chamber Music Subscription Concert at Sendesaal Bremen, this chamber program sets Renaissance and Baroque pieces alongside Schubert songs in string-quartet arrangements, Missy Mazzoli’s contemporary double bass concerto, and Thomas Adès’s Arcadiana. There is no staging or theatrical team; it is an instrumental concert. The title work, Dark with excessive bright, is linked to John Milton’s description of God in Paradise Lost and to the double bass’s distinctive color. The event text notes that Mazzoli drew on Baroque and Renaissance idioms, which also shape the concerto’s structure. Historic repertoire by Mazzocchi, Palestrina, Lasso, and Selma y Salaverde surrounds the concerto, while Adès’s quartet provides a modern echo that also nods toward Schubert’s Auf dem Wasser zu singen in Xandi van Dijk’s arrangement. The program frames an old bass (dated 1580) as a vessel carrying music across centuries.

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