Ravenna Festival
Lux Perpetua
in memoria delle vittime del terremoto
Missa pro defunctis a 4 voci miste
di Orlando di Lasso
Coro Polifonico e Schola Gregoriana Paer
direttore Ugo Rolli
If our title, Ex tenebris ad lucem, is loaded with references to the liturgy and the ideas of light as a symbol for Christ and darkness as a symbol for Evil or the world without Christ, our path intends to retrace the terms of this conflict within the double frame of history and contemporaneity. In the dark ages of Popes and Antipopes, the light of faith has never ceased to shine in the beautiful Mass of the code of Sainte-Anne d’Apt. The great creative turmoil of Palestrina and Counter-Reformation polyphonists is the expression of a recovered light. Two events will celebrate Light coming to the world through its intermediary, Mary. And finally, Orlando di Lasso’s Missa pro defunctis will bring relief to the victims of recent earthquakes: l’Aquila, Haiti and Chile.