Aurore: Oh Sister, Haste with Me to the Sea!

Aurore – Helsinki Renaissance Music Festival will be held in February st St. Paul's Church

The program presents Aurore's four enchanting concerts including full of colourful renaissance music!

The concert takes its audience to the colourful and emotionally charged world of love poetry of the Middle Ages. The programme includes poems exploring women’s perspectives, their inner worlds, as well as medieval songs praising the Virgin Mary. In medieval texts and early motets, the heavenly and the worldly forms of love were not so far removed, and even the Virgin Mary could be described in surprisingly carnal terms. Early polyphonic music is often built on several overlapping texts, one being very chaste, the other sensual, even erotic in tone and the third somewhere in between.

Amor Céu is an ensemble specialising in medieval music, whose members are virtuoso singers and multi-instrumentalists. The name of the ensemble, literally translated as "love sky", refers to a beloved, friend or partner, a distant love (Amor seu) or ‘heavenly love’ in Portuguese.

Amor Céu:

Eira Karlson, song & fiddle
Anna-Maaria Oramo, song & clavisimbalum
Aino Peltomaa, song, harp & percussions

St. Paul's Church

8.2.2024

19.00-20.00
 

Free coffee with artists 45 min before the concert

Tickets 20-30€, festival pass 55/65€ online, from Lippupiste and at the entrance