Raphaël Pichon & Pygmalion

Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion take you back in time. He’s built this concert as an imaginary church service – complete with hymns, psalms and prayers – stitching together works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Schütz, Praetorius and Scheidt to recreate something that could have happened in early 17th-century Europe, when Italian and German composers were frantically copying each other’s homework. The finale is a Magnificat Pichon pieced together from seven different composers. It shouldn’t work, but it really, really does.