Early Lutheran Vicinium Touring the Church Calendar 9

　Martin Luther, who questioned the state of the medieval Catholic Church, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church,
He was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and formed his own congregation.
　In this concert series, we will perform "Vicinium," a two-voice polyphonic piece used for music education and liturgy in early Lutheran monasteries in the 16th and 17th centuries, along with the church calendar.
This concert series features "Vicinium," a two-voice polyphonic piece used for music education and liturgy in early Lutheran monasteries in the 16th and 17th centuries, in accordance with the church calendar.

　The 2024 church calendar, beginning with the First Sunday of Advent on December 3, 2023, will also feature the bitinium with selections in accordance with the calendar.
　Each piece is a short piece of vitinium, a concentration of the techniques of Renaissance polyphony, and each concert will feature a dozen or so pieces of vitinium, with a talk on the church calendar and quotations from the Bible.

　The ninth concert (December 5), "The Season of Waiting," will feature a bitinium for the four weeks before Christmas, the period of preparation for the birth of the Savior foretold in the Old Testament.
　Please enjoy the two-voice polyphony "Vicinium" performed by Mai Nagai (recorder) and Takuya Sakamoto (baroque violin).