Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri
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Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri
25 March 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Date and time
Friday 25th March 2022, 7pm
KorMalta – Malta National Choir will perform Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri patientis sanctissima (‘’The Most Holy Limbs of Our Suffering Jesus’’) accompanied by the Valletta International Baroque Ensemble.
Composed in 1680, the piece is an early Baroque Oratorio. It describes the contemplation of seven parts of Christ’s crucified body – his pierced feet, bent knees, bleeding hands, wounded side, revered breast, loving heart, and thorn-crowned face. Combining vivid texts with intensely expressive music, they were, according to the title page, a personal act of piety where pain is felt through sounds, moments of total peace and abandonment. The tone gap between one cantata and another is always a fifth interval, which interval expresses deep mystical meanings such as enlightenment, spiritual elevation to God, as the gaze ascends from Jesus’ feet to his head.
During the concert, audience members will be joined by students from the Malta School of Art who will be sketching, painting and sculpting during the performance to create their own Easter-oriented interpretations
Collaborators
Malta School of Art
Ticket Information
Adult
€12
Concessions
€10
Children
n/a
Cinema Club Members
n/a
Concession tickets include students, senior citizens and Special ID Holders (SID).
Venue Information
Studio B
