“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. B’Rock Orchestra & Vocal Consort perform the noble polyphony of the psalms by Schütz and his contemporaries, songs of lament and jubilation, but also songs that describe everyday life in the midst of battle. Music that speaks of 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.

The early Baroque music will find its place in between compositions with field recordings created by Inne Eysermans (musician) and Katherina Lindekens (dramaturge and field recordist). They take a step back: What traces of war can be heard in the environments we inhabit every day? And how does nature carry on after periods of human conflict?

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This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government through Flanders Tax Shelter.

The work of Katherina Lindekens and Inne Eysermans is supported by funding from EFFEA, an initiative of the European Festivals Association.