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Cappella Amsterdam © Milagro Elstak
Cappella Amsterdam © Milagro Elstak

Schnittke and Kalinnikov

Cappella Amsterdam
Sun 14 Feb 2027 15:00 - 17:00
Sun 14 Feb 2027
15:00 - 17:00
  • Sun 14 Feb 2027
    15:00 - 17:00
    Grote Zaal
    From Tue 31 Mar 2026 12:00

Program

Victor Kalinnikov Parts of the Vespers: Vo Tsarstvii Tvoyem (In Thy Kingdom) / Svete tihii (Gentle Light) / Bogoroditse Devo (Rejoice, O Virgin) / Nyne otpushchayeshi (Lord, Now Lettest Thou) / Heruvimskaya pesn' No. 2 (Cherubic Hymn No. 2)  
Alfred Schnittke Psalms of Repentance (Stikhi Pokayanniye) 

Credits

Cappella Amsterdam 
Daniel Reuss conductor 

Penitential Psalms and Vespers

Two approaches to Russian Orthodox choral music converge here. The Vespers of Victor Kalinnikov (1866–1901) are steeped in the liturgical spirit of their time, marked by seamless melodies, bright harmonies, and a choir that breathes as one. In a completely different era, Alfred Schnittke delivered a bold re-envisioning of these ancient chants with his Penitential Psalms. 
 
In these psalms, Orthodox choral traditions are clearly recognizable, yet deliberately stretched and distorted by a late 20th-century musical idiom. Composed in 1988 to mark 1,000 years of Christianity in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, Schnittke’s Stikhi Pokayanniye draws its inspiration from anonymous 16th-century Russian verses on themes of sin and penance. 

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