"Makellos"

Singer Pur, Opus Klassik Prize winners in 2022, bring the 36th edition of the Musica Viva 2026 festival to a close with this final concert. The vocal sextet has stood for refined sound, precision and stylistic range for decades.

The programme, titled "Among Whirlwinds", puts women composers centre stage: from Hildegard von Bingen and the masters of the Renaissance, through Ilse Weber, to contemporary voices such as Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Joanne Metcalf and Jessica Horsley - spanning nearly a thousand years of music history.

Moving between sacred music, folk song, pop and contemporary soundscapes, the programme maps the stylistic breadth of female composition and shows how naturally this music belongs in the concert hall.