SOUND OUT LEEDS 24/25:
Kantos Choir: Rest Soft
 

Ellie Slorach – director

Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah
Cassandra Miller The City, Full of People
David Lang The Little Match Girl Passion

“They both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth”

Kantos Chamber Choir perform the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning piece The Little Match Girl Passion by American composer David Lang.

The piece sets Hans Christian Andersen’s story The Little Match Girl in the format of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, interspersing Andersen’s narrative with Lang’s versions of the crowd and character responses from Bach’s Passion.

Of his work, David Lang said: “One could convincingly tell it as a story about faith or as an allegory about poverty. Andersen tells this story as a kind of parable, drawing a religious and moral equivalency between the suffering of the poor girl and the suffering of Jesus.”

This performance promises to transcend the human realm and truly lift us out of this world, with performances of Tallis’ Lamentations and Miller’s companion piece, The City, Full of People.