Da Pacem

“Grant peace, Lord, grant peace.” While Europe was being torn apart by the Thirty Years’ War, Heinrich Schütz set his urgent plea to equally poignant music. We let his polyphonic psalms, laments, and songs resound. Music that speaks of daily life in times of conflict mirrors the absurdity of reality: that four centuries later, no breach has yet been made in the vicious circle called the violence of war.