Spring concert: Vocal ensemble Candius Firmus and woodwind ensemble Con Brio: Chania 9th /10th April

The vocal ensemble Candius Firmus (Chania Municipality teenage choir) collaborates for the first time with the woodwind ensemble Con Brio in a spring concert.

WHEN &WHERE:
9th April at 20.00 at the Catholic Church, Chalidon 46 in Chania and
10th April at 21.00 at the Centre for Mediterranean Architecture – Grand Arsenal (Venetian Harbour), 31, Akti Tombazi, Katechaki Square, Chania.

Entrance: free

Two performances with religious music, with a special emphasis on revival.
Works by Orlando di Lasso, Felix Mendelssohn and Heinrich Schuetz will be heard.

The Con Brio woodwind ensemble conducted by Anna Malekakis.
Church organ: Aphrodite Mitsotakis.
‘Candius Firmus’:
In music ‘cantus firmus’ is the terminology for a melody on which a polyphonic composition was based during the Renaissance.
The name Candius Firmus refers to the words Candia (old name of Chania) and cantus.

Source: KAM