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| Friday 12-Jul-13 08:15pm |
 Geertekerk, UtrechtGrenzeloos Geluid |
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| Geertekerk, Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, Utrecht 3511 XC, Netherlands Friday 12-Jul-13 08:15pm Grenzeloos Geluid Kapok, Nieuw werk voor strijkorkest en jazz trio Price type: Low cost, half at £10 or less | ||
| Friday 23-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Festive Opening Night Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Friday 23-Aug-13 08:00pm Festive Opening Night Domkerk & city centre A € 35 / € 25 / € 10 B € 30 / € 20 / € 10 Festive Opening Night Ars Antiqua Austria, St. Florianer Sängerknaben / Gunar Letzbor and dozens of salon concerts Muffat’s only surviving mass In labore requies is a typical example of the large-scale vocal and instrumental multichoral composition popular in Salzburg at the time. Together with his ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria the violinist Gunar Letzbor is one of the main champions of Austrian Baroque repertoire, which has so far remained largely unexplored. Besides his orchestra of strings and winds he also brings the St Florian children’s choir – in which the young Bruckner used to sing – to Utrecht for the Festival’s opening concert. During the other half of the concert you will be treated to a concert of intimate chamber music, given by Festival musicians at a unique location you would be unlikely to visit otherwise. What’s on the programme? A surprise awaits you! Programme to include: | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 01:00pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht Froberger & Byrd on harpsichord Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Saturday 24-Aug-13 01:00pm Froberger & Byrd on harpsichord A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Jos van Immerseel Froberger & Byrd on harpsichord The harpsichordist Jos van Immerseel focuses on the Italian inspired composer Froberger with his capriccios, toccatas and canzonas. The source of this influence is unmistakeable: Froberger studied in Rome with the other great master of 17th-century keyboard music, Girolamo Frescobaldi. In this recital Van Immerseel places Froberger alongside his much older, but similarly Catholic colleague: William Byrd, juxtaposing the Italian polyphonic tradition with the expressive music of the English virginalists. | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht Karel de Grote: Koning en Keizer Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht, Utrecht 3512, Netherlands Saturday 24-Aug-13 03:00pm Karel de Grote: Koning en Keizer A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Sequentia / Benjamin Bagby Charlemagne: King and Emperor In the year 800 Charlemagne became emperor of a realm that encompassed almost the whole of Western Europe, thus earning the enduring honorary title Father of Europe. More than 350 years after his death he was elevated to sainthood. Political opportunism was perhaps the greatest motivating factor behind his canonisation: the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa exploited his historical predecessor in order to bolster his own stature and claim direct lineage from the Roman emperors. Sequentia creates a trait d’union linking both these aspects of Charlemagne, juxtaposing early Latin songs from Charlemagne’s court with 12th-century masses. | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht Musical solace for a king in exile Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht, Hamburgerstraat 9, Utrecht, Netherlands Saturday 24-Aug-13 03:00pm Musical solace for a king in exile A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Le Jardin Secret Musical solace for a king in exile Following the invasion by William of Orange the English king James II lost his throne, although it was said that he regained his soul in doing so. He no doubt suffered great humiliation living in exile as a guest of the French King Louis XIV; however, music may have brought him some solace. Le Jardin Secret plays the Italian music familiar to the Stuarts in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, as well as the newly composed French repertoire of the period. Campra, Visée, Charpentier and Carissimi thus join company in this concert. | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Geertekerk, Utrecht Muffat, Pez, Corelli and the concerto grosso Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Geertekerk, Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, Utrecht 3511 XC, Netherlands Saturday 24-Aug-13 05:00pm Muffat, Pez, Corelli and the concerto grosso A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Les Muffatti / Peter Van Heyghen Muffat, Pez, Corelli and the concerto grosso Les Muffatti’s star is on the ascendant: they made an ambitious recording of Pez, Bononcini and Leclair and last year they astounded the Utrecht Festival public with an unknown but extraordinarily dramatic St Matthew Passion by Bach’s contemporary Reinhard Keiser. The Baroque orchestra was a definite must for this year’s festival, since its namesake features so prominently in the programming. The concert is based on the concerto grosso, a genre that spread from Rome to the north. Corelli’s rarely heard Sinfonia in D minor will also be performed. | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Jacobikerk, Utrecht The grand motet: a journey through Europe Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
Programme to include: Works by Clerambault Works by Biffi Works by Telemann |
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| Jacobikerk, Utrecht, St Jacobsstraat 171, Utrecht 3511 BP Utrecht, Netherlands Saturday 24-Aug-13 08:00pm The grand motet: a journey through Europe A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Le Parnasse français / Louis Castelain The grand motet: a journey through Europe Under the fiery leadership of Louis Castelain, Le Parnasse français was the revelatory highlight of the 2010 Utrecht Early Music Festival. The ensemble specialises in the grand motet: sacred music on a monumental scale with choir, orchestra and soloists. In fact, not so typically French music. Le Parnasse français demonstrates how Lully’s model was disseminated: from Clérambault in Paris, via Purcell in London (My beloved spake) and Biffi in Venice, to Telemann in Hamburg. The ensemble takes us on a European journey, on the trail of a riveting musical genre characterised by pomp and splendour. Programme to include: Works by Biffi, Antonio Works by Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht L’homme armé: war and peace in the 15th century Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Saturday 24-Aug-13 08:00pm L’homme armé: war and peace in the 15th century A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Cantica Symphonia / Giuseppe Maletto L’homme armé: war and peace in the 15th century The Italian specialist ensemble Cantica Symphonia presents Dufay’s four-voice Missa L’homme armé, alternating with instrumental mass movements attributed to Antoine Busnois. Dufay may have composed his mass after returning to Cambrai, where he spent his final years, lauded as the most influential European composer of his day. In the mid-fifteenth century the theme of L’homme armé was strikingly common in mass settings: possibly a reference to the fall of Constantinople following the Turkish siege; a traumatic event for Western Europe. Works by Busnoys, Antoine (1430-1492) | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 10:30pm |
Geertekerk, Utrecht Ciconia: motets Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Geertekerk, Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, Utrecht 3511 XC, Netherlands Saturday 24-Aug-13 10:30pm Ciconia: motets Programme not known | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 01:00pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht Froberger: on the organ and harpsichord Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Sunday 25-Aug-13 01:00pm Froberger: on the organ and harpsichord A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Bob van Asperen Froberger: on the organ and harpsichord Clearly a substantial portion of Froberger’s keyboard oeuvre was intended to be performed on the organ. Bob van Asperen performs several Italian-inspired toccatas, a ricercare, a fantasia and capriccio on the organ, followed by the suite XV and the superb Lamentation on the death of Froberger’s employer Ferdinand III: music that was unmistakably composed for the harpsichord. He completes the programme with an allemande by Henri Dumont. | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 03:00pm |
R K Sint Willibrordkerk, Utrecht Hermannus Contractur: a genius from the musical centre of Europe Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| R K Sint Willibrordkerk, Utrecht, Minrebroederstraat 21, Utrecht 3512 GS, Netherlands Sunday 25-Aug-13 03:00pm Hermannus Contractur: a genius from the musical centre of Europe A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Ordo Virtutum / Stefan Morent Hermannus Contractur: a genius from the musical centre of Europe The monastery on the island of Reichenau in Lake Boden is called the cradle of European musical culture: Abbot Berno was the great reformer of Gregorian chant in the eleventh century, with its division into eight modes. His most important student was Hermannus, born exactly 1000 years ago this year: a medieval homo universalis. We will hear antiphonies, responsories and hymns by his hand, performed by the nine singers of the German ensemble Ordo Virtutum directed by Stefan Morent, an authority on medieval music. | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Sint-Augustinuskirk, Utrecht Tears of Melancholy: Muffat, Dowland, Britten, Hindemith Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Sint-Augustinuskirk, Utrecht, Oudegracht 69, Utrecht, Netherlands Sunday 25-Aug-13 05:00pm Tears of Melancholy: Muffat, Dowland, Britten, Hindemith A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B’Rock / David Van Bouwel Tears of Melancholy: Muffat, Dowland, Britten, Hindemith B’Rock and viola player Dmitry Sinkovsky demonstrate – on Baroque instruments – how 20th-century composers found their inspiration in the old masters. Thus, alongside the ‘real works’ by Muffat and Dowland we also hear Benjamin Britten’s cycle based on Dowland’s Lachrimae or Seven Tears composed in 1604. In the subsequent variations Britten used fragments of Dowland’s melodies, which only appear in their complete form at the end of the cycle. The dark tones of the viola dominate here, as is the case in the Trauermusik composed by Paul Hindemith in 1936 on the occasion of the death of the English King George V. | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Lassus: Bonjour mon coeur Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Sunday 25-Aug-13 05:00pm Lassus: Bonjour mon coeur A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Capilla Flamenca / Dirk Snellings Lassus: Bonjour mon coeur Lassus was exceptionally versatile within the secular chanson genre. His emotional and musical palette of colours is inexhaustible, whether expressing humour, melancholy or the joys and sorrows of love. This is evident in his translation of Bonjour mon coeur, a refined love poem by Ronsard, into an equally captivating musical equivalent. The four singers of Capilla Flamenca refer to this aspect of Lassus’s oeuvre as cabaret, but of the most alluring variety. Supported by lute, flute and gambas, they also present instrumental arrangements of the vocal originals. | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Geertekerk, Utrecht Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Geertekerk, Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, Utrecht 3511 XC, Netherlands Sunday 25-Aug-13 08:00pm Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 La Risonanza / Fabio Bonizzoni Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante Vivaldi’s serenata La Senna festeggiante (The Seine Rejoicing) is a tribute to the French King Louis XV. It contains many French elements – but perhaps it above all reveals how Vivaldi viewed the French style. The libretto is built around three characters and is somewhat static; however, this in no way spoils the pleasure: every page of the music displays the rich inventiveness so typical of Vivaldi. It is the ideal work for Fabio Bonizzoni’s energetic chamber orchestra, bolstered by festive winds for the occasion. | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 09:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Ossuaires: a cinema concert Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Sunday 25-Aug-13 09:00pm Ossuaires: a cinema concert A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Graindelavoix / Björn Schmelzer Ossuaires: a cinema concert The multitalented Björn Schmelzer transforms the Dom into a cinema, with live polyphony performed by his musicians resounding beneath its vaulted arches. The film, a contemporary road movie under his own direction featuring the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in a leading role, was inspired by the unique sketchbook created by the 13th-century architect Villard de Honnecourt while travelling throughout medieval Europe on a cathedral tour. The office for Saint Elizabeth of Hungary provides the soundtrack for Schmelzer’s ironic exploration of the film genre. | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 11:59pm |
Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht Froberger and the German lineage on harpsichord Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht, Hamburgerstraat 9, Utrecht, Netherlands Sunday 25-Aug-13 11:59pm Froberger and the German lineage on harpsichord € 12 / € 10 / € 7 Pierre Hantaï Froberger and the German lineage on harpsichord Keyboard giant Pierre Hantaï is well-known to Utrecht audiences, and rightly so: this former Leonhardt student is the most fascinating and original harpsichordist on the current scene. In this midnight recital he places Froberger – including his suites XVIII and XIX – in perspective, performing him alongside Bach’s Lautenwerk suite and Handel’s Sarabande in D minor. He also makes an excursion over the Channel, with William Byrd’s impressive series of variations The Woods so wilde. | ||
| Monday 26-Aug-13 01:00pm |
Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht Froberger & Rossi on harpsichord Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht, Hamburgerstraat 9, Utrecht, Netherlands Monday 26-Aug-13 01:00pm Froberger & Rossi on harpsichord A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10 David Van Bouwel Froberger & Rossi on harpsichord Froberger directly incorporated the Italian innovations of his teacher Frescobaldi into the German tradition, employing typical genres such as the toccata and capriccio. The Flemish harpsichordist David Van Bouwel focuses on Froberger’s Italian-inspired works and juxtaposes these with the highly chromatic music of Michelangelo Rossi. In this way we hear two Frescobaldi students side by side: there can be no doubt that Rossi served as a source of inspiration for Froberger. | ||
| Monday 26-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Jacobikerk, Utrecht D’Astorga: Stabat Mater; Perez: Mattutino de’Morti Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Jacobikerk, Utrecht, St Jacobsstraat 171, Utrecht 3511 BP Utrecht, Netherlands Monday 26-Aug-13 08:00pm D’Astorga: Stabat Mater; Perez: Mattutino de’Morti A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Ghislieri Choir & Consort / Giulio Prandi D’Astorga: Stabat Mater; Perez: Mattutino de’Morti Davide Perez and Emanuele d’Astorga left their Neapolitan home land to work in other parts of Europe. The French Fondation Royaumont has given the young conductor Giulio Prandi the opportunity to set up an extensive musicological project based on the Matuttino de’Morti published by Davide Perez in Lisbon. With fifty performers on the stage, this late 18th-century funeral mass is sure to be one of the most memorable events of the Festival. The Mattutino is performed alongside the Baroque Stabat mater by Emanuel Rincon Barone d’Astorga. | ||
| Monday 26-Aug-13 10:30pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Lassus & De Monte: ein Leben in der Fremde Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Monday 26-Aug-13 10:30pm Lassus & De Monte: ein Leben in der Fremde A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Cinquecento Lassus & De Monte: ein Leben in der Fremde Most Renaissance composers led a turbulent life of constant travel. Orlandus Lassus and Philippus de Monte were no exception. Both composers were born in Northern Europe, travelled throughout Europe and subsequently settled down for a long period; the former in Munich and the latter in Vienna and Prague. The Austrian Renaissance collective Cinquecento makes its Utrecht debut with a combination of de Monte’s six-voice Missa Ultimi miei Sospiri, a parody mass to a madrigal by Verdelot, and motets and Magnificat settings by Lassus. | ||
| Monday 26-Aug-13 11:59pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht In darkness let me dwell Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Monday 26-Aug-13 11:59pm In darkness let me dwell € 12 / € 10 / € 7 Emma Kirkby & Jakob Lindberg In darkness let me dwell The grand dame of early music will finally visit Utrecht again. Emma Kirkby and lutenist Jakob Lindberg present this mid-night concert as a journey through Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The darkness, representing loneliness but also a need for silence and contemplation, serves as a guide in a recital that takes us from Moulinié, via D’India, Coprario and Ferbosco, to Buxtehude and Schimmelpfenninck. | ||
| Tuesday 27-Aug-13 01:00pm |
Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht Froberger & Frescobaldi on harpsichord Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht, Hamburgerstraat 9, Utrecht, Netherlands Tuesday 27-Aug-13 01:00pm Froberger & Frescobaldi on harpsichord A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Jean-Marc Aymes Froberger & Frescobaldi on harpsichord Froberger studied with the organist of St. Peter’s Girolamo Frescobaldi in Rome. The clarity and flexibility of Frescobaldi’s keyboard idiom appealed to him: the typically polyphonic structures, his virtuosity and inventiveness, his uninhibited pursuit of a given musical idea. Jean-Marc Aymes has recorded Frescobaldi’s entire keyboard oeuvre and he approaches Froberger from the perspective of his teacher. In doing so, he seeks out explicit references and corresponding elements. | ||
| Tuesday 27-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Lassus: Sacrae Cantiones (1562) Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Tuesday 27-Aug-13 05:00pm Lassus: Sacrae Cantiones (1562) A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Oratorios / Anne Smith Lassus: Sacrae Cantiones (1562) Music has to resemble a good oration: it must move the listener, otherwise it has no effect. In order to achieve this the music must be well-constructed, but above all the performer needs to have mastered the technique of declamation and to possess the requisite elegance and power of persuasion. Anne Smith, a teacher at the Schola Cantorum in Basel and specialist in 16th-century performance practice, coaches five of her best students performing motets from Lassus’s compilation Sacrae Cantiones. Young talent meets cutting-edge research in concert. | ||
| Tuesday 27-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Geertekerk, Utrecht Campra: L’Europe galante (scenes) Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Geertekerk, Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, Utrecht 3511 XC, Netherlands Tuesday 27-Aug-13 08:00pm Campra: L’Europe galante (scenes) A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempé Campra: L’Europe galante (scenes) The title of Campra’s L’Europa galante possibly enjoys greater renown than the superb music itself; however, Skip Sempé and his fellow performers change all of this. Premièred in 1697 under the direction of Marin Marais, L’Europa galante is the first opéra-ballet in which the various scènes share a single unifying theme. Thus, we will be presented with amorous scenes from four different countries: France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. These provide the ingredients for an imaginary European journey, in this case one with a French flavour. Campra, Andre (1660-1744), L'Europe galante (scenes) | ||
| Tuesday 27-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Lassus & Gombert: Principes musicorum Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Tuesday 27-Aug-13 08:00pm Lassus & Gombert: Principes musicorum A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Stile Antico Lassus & Gombert: Principes musicorum Like so many of the best 16th-century Flemish musicians, Gombert obtained a position at the prestigious Capilla Flamenca of Emperor Charles. He travelled throughout Europe in the Emperor’s wake. The younger Lassus ended up in Italy; he was one of the few Flemish composers not to be employed by Charles or his son Philip. The leading British ensemble Stile Antico unites these two figures around the Song of Songs, with motets by Lassus and Gombert’s Missa Quam Pulchra es. The concert opens and concludes with two different settings of the Magnificat. Programme to include: Works by de Lassus, Orlande (1532-1594) | ||
| Tuesday 27-Aug-13 10:30pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Lassus & Lejeune: motets, psalms, chansons Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Tuesday 27-Aug-13 10:30pm Lassus & Lejeune: motets, psalms, chansons A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Huelgas Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel Lassus & Lejeune: motets, psalms, chansons Paul Van Nevel unequivocally views Claude Lejeune as the French Lassus. Both composers were closely acquainted with each other’s works and they held each other in high regard. There was one marked difference: Lejeune found a secure niche working for the European Hugenots, where he ultimately developed into the musical figurehead of the French Reformation. This was also a determining factor regarding his choice of repertoire. The supreme all-rounder Lassus is surpassed by Lejeune in two genres: the chanson, which Lejeune approached with unprecedented freshness and, naturally, the psalm setting. Programme to include: Works by Le Jeune, Claude (1528-1600) | ||
| Wednesday 28-Aug-13 01:00pm |
Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht Froberger: a personal selection Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht, Hamburgerstraat 9, Utrecht, Netherlands Wednesday 28-Aug-13 01:00pm Froberger: a personal selection A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Bob van Asperen, harpsichord Froberger: a personal selection In his second recital at this year’s Festival, Bob van Asperen brings together several of Froberger’s most personal compositions in a programme suffused with melancholy. We hear the Méditation sur ma mort future, composed in Paris, alongside the celebrated lamento on the death of Ferdinand IV and a programmatic musical depiction of Froberger’s perilous and near fatal crossing of the turbulent Rhine by boat. The programme would be incomplete without the superb tombeau that he dedicated to his friend the lute composer Blancrocher, who died in 1652: this is perhaps Froberger’s best known composition. | ||
| Wednesday 28-Aug-13 03:00pm |
R K Sint Willibrordkerk, Utrecht Ciconia: music and politics in the late Middle Ages Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| R K Sint Willibrordkerk, Utrecht, Minrebroederstraat 21, Utrecht 3512 GS, Netherlands Wednesday 28-Aug-13 03:00pm Ciconia: music and politics in the late Middle Ages A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Les Haulz et les Bas Ciconia: music and politics in the late Middle Ages At the Council of Constance (1414-1418), which was intended to bring an end to the schism dividing the Catholic Church with no less than three rival popes, reference was made to multiple-voiced wind music that sounded ‘as one is accustomed to singing’. Apparently music and politics make good bedfellows. Taking this singular fact as their point of departure the four alta capella wind players comprising Les Haulz et les Bas have devised a programme featuring music by Dufay, Ciconia, Busnois and Dunstaple and concluding with Mille Regretz, the song of Emperor Charles V. | ||
| Wednesday 28-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Lassus & de Rore: sacred music Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Wednesday 28-Aug-13 05:00pm Lassus & de Rore: sacred music A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice Lassus & de Rore: sacred music Both Lassus and Cipriano de Rore, seventeen years his senior, bore the nickname of Il divino. This was not so unusual, considering that it was in the publishers’ interests to extol ‘their’ composers’ virtues. However, theoreticians and experts also shared their opinion. These days De Rore is less well known; however, he also made a crucial contribution – for instance with his Missa super Doulce mémoire selected by the British singers of The Brabant Ensemble – towards achieving a closer intertwining of text and music in the sixteenth century, thus preparing the way for the ensuing Baroque period. | ||
| Wednesday 28-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Lassus, Le Febure, Utendal, Hassler Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Wednesday 28-Aug-13 08:00pm Lassus, Le Febure, Utendal, Hassler A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Currende / Erik Van Nevel Lassus, Le Febure, Utendal, Hassler The late 16th century saw the eventual demise of a polyphonic tradition that had existed for almost 250 years. In Italy a new expressive style arose that was to set the tone in the Baroque period. The nine singers and five instrumentalists of Currende pay tribute to the last generation of polyphonists in Germany and Austria, performing masterly music by Lassus, Le Febure, Utendal and Hassler. They were primarily active in the field of pure polyphony; however, they too embarked upon the new path of greater expressivity and direct emotional expression. | ||
| Wednesday 28-Aug-13 10:30pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Froberger’s motets in context Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Wednesday 28-Aug-13 10:30pm Froberger’s motets in context A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Les Cyclopes / Bibiane Lapointe & Thierry Maeder Froberger’s motets in context In 1649 the Elector of Dresden organised a musical duel between his organist Matthias Weckmann and the Emperor’s emissary Froberger. This was to result in a lifelong friendship between the two musicians. This concert programme is said to have been performed at one of Weckmann’s Abendmusicken in Hamburg, featuring Venetian and Viennese music by Rosenmüller and Bertali. The core works are Froberger’s only two surviving vocal compositions: Alleluia Absorpta est mors and Apparuerunt apostolis, two motets that display a striking affinity with the Venetian concertante style. | ||
| Wednesday 28-Aug-13 11:59pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht The library of Constantijn Huygens Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Wednesday 28-Aug-13 11:59pm The library of Constantijn Huygens € 12 / € 10 / € 7 Jan Van Elsacker, tenor & Thor-Harald Johnsen, lute The library of Constantijn Huygens As a child Constantijn Huygens once performed with Sweelinck in a house concert. Much later he met Froberger as a diplomat and heard Claudio Monteverdi performing in Venice. The tenor Jan Van Elsacker and lutenist Thor-Harald Johnsen browse through music that certainly would have been part of Huygens’s collection: Boësset, Lanier, Foscarini, Pesenti and, naturally, airs by Huygens himself. Enjoy an intimate evening of song and lute music in the footsteps of the celebrated Dutch 17th-century cosmopolitan. | ||
| Thursday 29-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Striggio: 40-voice mass Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Thursday 29-Aug-13 05:00pm Striggio: 40-voice mass A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet Striggio: 40-voice mass The Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno for 40 voices composed by Alessandro Striggio (the father of the librettist of Monteverdi’s Orfeo) in Florence, is the most extravagant Renaissance composition ever written. The mass was heard throughout Europe and was played at the court of Maximilian II of Habsburg, Albert V the Duke of Bavaria and Charles IX of France. The music was used as a showpiece and copies circulated among the courts. Lassus heard the work in Munich and the jealous Thomas Tallis composed his own 40-voice Spem in alium in response. Almost five centuries down the track a live performance of Striggio’s mass continues to be an unforgettable experience. This concert is of 75 minutes’ duration without interval. Realised with the financial assistance of the Turing Foundation | ||
| Thursday 29-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Striggio: 40-voice mass Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Thursday 29-Aug-13 08:00pm Striggio: 40-voice mass A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet Striggio: 40-voice mass The Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno for 40 voices composed by Alessandro Striggio (the father of the librettist of Monteverdi’s Orfeo) in Florence, is the most extravagant Renaissance composition ever written. The mass was heard throughout Europe and was played at the court of Maximilian II of Habsburg, Albert V the Duke of Bavaria and Charles IX of France. The music was used as a showpiece and copies circulated among the courts. Lassus heard the work in Munich and the jealous Thomas Tallis composed his own 40-voice Spem in alium in response. Almost five centuries down the track a live performance of Striggio’s mass continues to be an unforgettable experience. This concert is of 75 minutes’ duration without interval. Realised with the financial assistance of the Turing Foundation | ||
| Thursday 29-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht Muffat, Schwartzkopf, Telemann: the harmony of styles Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Thursday 29-Aug-13 08:00pm Muffat, Schwartzkopf, Telemann: the harmony of styles A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Pratum Integrum / Pavel Serbin Muffat, Schwartzkopf, Telemann: the harmony of styles The Russian Baroque orchestra Pratum Integrum bases their first concert in the Netherlands on Muffat’s international style. French, Italian and German: in his delightful compilation Armonico Tributo Muffat unites all of Europe, capping it all off with an explicit wish for peace. The German Theodor Schwartzkopf, represented in the programme by a colourful concerto with trumpet, oboes, gambas and violins, likewise sought inspiration in France. Somewhat later, Telemann was to become the reigning champion of the goûts reunis. | ||
| Thursday 29-Aug-13 11:59pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht Dowland's Europe Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Thursday 29-Aug-13 11:59pm Dowland's Europe € 12 / € 10 / € 7 Hopkinson Smith, Renaissance lute Dowland’s Europe The master lutenist Hopkinson Smith devotes his midnight concert to the British lute composer John Dowland. He places him in an international context by means of three lute publications that appeared within the space of two years: Varietie of Lute Lessons, the most important printed source of Dowland’s music (London, 1610), Robert Ballard’s Premier Livre de Tablature (Paris, 1611) and Kapsberger’s Libro Primo d'Intavolatura de Lauto (Rome, 1611). | ||
| Friday 30-Aug-13 03:00pm |
R K Sint Willibrordkerk, Utrecht Three contemporaries of Ciconia Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| R K Sint Willibrordkerk, Utrecht, Minrebroederstraat 21, Utrecht 3512 GS, Netherlands Friday 30-Aug-13 03:00pm Three contemporaries of Ciconia A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Tetraktys / Kees Boeke Three contemporaries of Ciconia The Dutch recorder player and medieval specialist Kees Boeke brings the singers Carlos Mena and Julia von Landsberg to Utrecht for a musical survey of Johannes Ciconia’s times. He places the main spotlight on Ciconia’s Italian colleagues: Magister Dominus Paulus Abbas de Fiorentia, Magister Frater Bartolinus de Padua and Magister Frater Andreas Organista de Florentia. A true feast for the connoisseur. | ||
| Friday 30-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Lassus: Missa Surge propera Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Friday 30-Aug-13 05:00pm Lassus: Missa Surge propera A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini Lassus: Missa Surge propera The six-voice Missa Surge propera follows the principle of parody or imitation, in which the composer further elaborates on material taken from other compositions – a motet in this case. Concerto Italiano invariably uses a bass accompaniment with lutes and organ for the performance of 16th-century polyphony. This is in line with historical performance practice: instruments could double the voices, while providing support on the organ was usual in many places in Italy. | ||
| Friday 30-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht War and Peace: from the Union of Utrecht (1579) to the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, J.C. Verthorenpad 100, Utrecht 3541 MV, Netherlands Friday 30-Aug-13 08:00pm War and Peace: from the Union of Utrecht (1579) to the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Cappella Reial de Catalunya, Hespérion XXI, Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall War and Peace: from the Union of Utrecht (1579) to the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Jordi Savall has created a tailor-made programme for the Early Music Festival, for the occasion of the 3rd centenary of the Treaty of Utrecht. The soloists, choir and orchestra are poised to tell a musical tale of war and peace in Baroque Europe. One hundred and fifty years of drastic events occurring in and beyond continental Europe provide the unifying theme: the Union of Utrecht against the Spanish Crown, the defeat of the Armada, the Edict of Nantes that advocated tolerance towards the Protestants, the Thirty Years War, the siege of Breda, the English Civil War, the colonisation of Ireland, the independence of Portugal, the Treaty of Nijmegen and finally the War of the Spanish Succession and the Treaty of Utrecht. With works by composers such as Gesualdo, de Victoria, Gabrieli, Lawes, Cabanilles, Sweelinck, Charpentier, Lully, Fux, Bach and Händel alongside Jewish, Ottoman, Hungarian and Polish music, this will be an evening concert to remember, with peace as its dominant theme. Jordi Savall is a United Nations Artist for Peace. This concert has been realised with the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Institut Ramon Llull, the European Union Culture Programme and the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation. Avec le soutien du Département de la Culture de la Generalitat de Catalunya, de l’Institut Ramon Llull, du "Programme Culture" de la Union européenne et des Fondations Edmond de Rothschild. | ||
| Friday 30-Aug-13 10:30pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Lassus: Missa Super Dixit Joseph Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Friday 30-Aug-13 10:30pm Lassus: Missa Super Dixit Joseph A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Odhecaton / Paolo da Col Lassus: Missa Super Dixit Joseph Many of Lassus’ sixty-six masses are inspired on existing polyphonic compositions such as motets, chansons and madrigals from other Franco-Flemish and Italian composers. For his Missa super Dixit Joseph (1607) Lassus however used his own six-part motet Dixit Joseph undecim fratribus from 1564. The rhetorical elements which are so characteristic for his later works are present. Lassus divided his six voices into two ‘choirs’, who, with sharp contrasts in tessitura, ‘battle’ with each other. Perfect for Paolo Da Col and his Odhecaton. This concert can’t be combined with Hespèrion XXI | ||
| Friday 30-Aug-13 11:59pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht French lute music in the early seventeenth century Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Friday 30-Aug-13 11:59pm French lute music in the early seventeenth century € 12 / € 10 / € 7 Eugène Ferré, lute French lute music in the early seventeenth century Froberger is said to have become acquainted with a keyboard idiom imitating the principles of lute playing while he was in France. The style luthé or brisé, involving the subtle breaking of chords, is the most striking characteristic of this idiom. But what did this French lute music from the first half of the 17th century actually sound like? Eugène Ferré has a strong affinity with this repertoire: there are no dead notes sounding here; rather, vivacious music composed by and for people of flesh and blood. | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 01:00pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht 17th-century French lute music from the time of Constantijn Huygens Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Saturday 31-Aug-13 01:00pm 17th-century French lute music from the time of Constantijn Huygens A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Fred Jacobs, lute 17th-century French lute music from the time of Constantijn Huygens Fred Jacobs reconstructs a unique period of lute history in his recital. Constantijn Huygens is known to have been an extraordinarily talented lutenist and composer for the lute. He travelled throughout Europe and became acquainted with the eminent musicians of his day. He counted Du Faut among his friends and corresponded with Froberger. Huygens was thus completely in touch with the latest musical developments and trends. Since few of Huygens’s works have survived to the present day, this programme features works by composers who served as his major models – Du Faut, Pinel and Gaultier. | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Geertekerk, Utrecht Bourgeois: Les plaisirs de la Paix (1715) Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Geertekerk, Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, Utrecht 3511 XC, Netherlands Saturday 31-Aug-13 03:00pm Bourgeois: Les plaisirs de la Paix (1715) A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Ludovice Ensemble / Fernando Miguel Jalôto Bourgeois: Les plaisirs de la Paix (1715) The Portuguese harpsichordist and conductor Jalôto has become a regular guest at the Festival: in past years he made his mark in the (Fabulous) Fringe. Now he takes his place within the Festival’s main programme, presenting a composition specially composed and performed for the occasion of the Treaty of Utrecht in Paris in 1715. The composer Thomas-Louis Bourgeois, born in Belgium and for some time theatre director in The Hague, wrote an opéra-ballet with French and Italian elements in the transitional style between Lully and Rameau. Featuring the soprano Raquel Andueza in a leading role. | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 05:00pm |
Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht Muffat’s violin sonata in context Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht, Utrecht 3512, Netherlands Saturday 31-Aug-13 05:00pm Muffat’s violin sonata in context A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Flux / Lidewij van der Voort & David Van Bouwel Muffat’s violin sonata in context Only one violin sonata by Georg Muffat is known to us today, but what a splendid work it is! The affects follow each other in quick succession, sometimes with daring modulations. The Dutch violinist Lidewij van der Voort, the former leader of Holland Baroque Society, introduces the new chamber music ensemble that she has founded together with David Van Bouwel. The central focus lies on the 17th century – Muffat, Lully, Corelli and Biber – with all the indispensible elements of their times: fantasy, rich emotional contrasts and uncompromising music making at the highest level. | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Händel: Utrecht Te Deum, Utrecht Jubilate, Birthday Ode for Queen Anne |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Saturday 31-Aug-13 08:00pm Händel: Utrecht Te Deum, Utrecht Jubilate, Birthday Ode for Queen Anne A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 European Union Baroque Orchestra & Choir of Clare College / Lars Ulrik Mortensen Händel: Utrecht Te Deum, Utrecht Jubilate, Birthday Ode for Queen Anne Naturally, a festival highlighting the third centenary of the Treaty of Utrecht would be incomplete without the inclusion of Händel’s two occasional compositions, the Utrecht Te Deum and Utrecht Jubilate. Celebrating a new European equilibrium, this music gains extra symbolic significance because of its performers. The European training orchestra EUBO is made up of young musicians from across Europe. For years EUBO has consistently demonstrated that it gives a tremendous boost to the Baroque musicians of the future. This project has been financed with the support of the European Commission. | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 08:00pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Orlando di Lasso and Roland de Lassus Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Saturday 31-Aug-13 08:00pm Orlando di Lasso and Roland de Lassus A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier Orlando di Lasso and Roland de Lassus The vocal collective Vox Luminis was a top sensation of the 2012 Festival. At the express wish of numerous Festival visitors they return this year with a secular Lassus programme that juxtaposes French chansons with Italian madrigals. While Lassus had an intimate knowledge of the various national genres, he rarely if ever combined them with each other. Bonjour mon coeur and Susanne un jour thus employ a different musical idiom than the seven- to ten-voice madrigals to texts by Petrarch. | ||
| Sunday 1-Sep-13 01:00pm |
Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht Lute music in the Netherlands Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Academiegebouw: Aula, Utrecht, Domplein 29, Utrecht 3512 JE, Netherlands Sunday 1-Sep-13 01:00pm Lute music in the Netherlands A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Anthony Bailes, lute Lute music in the Netherlands Anthony Bailes is a fervent advocate of Dutch lute music. In his view, all the elements that make English music so appealing are also to be found in Dutch 17th-century music, with as added bonus the welcome extension of the repertoire with traditional Dutch and Flemish melodies. The richness of the repertoire can be partially explained by the flood of religious refugees coming from France and Southern Netherlands. The tolerant climate of the north, its blooming economy and flourishing artistic life gave lutenists such as Joachim van den Hove and Nicolas Vallet good reason to settle down here. | ||
| Sunday 1-Sep-13 03:00pm |
Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht Nicolaes Vallet’s lute – openhearted and blithe Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht, Hamburgerstraat 9, Utrecht, Netherlands Sunday 1-Sep-13 03:00pm Nicolaes Vallet’s lute – openhearted and blithe A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 The Nicolaes Vallet Lute Quartet / Willem Mook Nicolaes Vallet’s lute – openhearted and blithe Nicolas Vallet fled France, where Louis XIV had repealed the Edict of Nantes, resulting in an intolerable situation for Protestants. Vallet came to Amsterdam, where he established a dance school and published four lute books. His style displays the subtlety of the early 17th-century French lute style, but he also made psalm settings and even paid homage to his new homeland with variations on Onder de Lindengroene. With three singers and four lutes Willem Mook pays tribute to Vallet and those who inspired him. | ||
| Sunday 1-Sep-13 05:00pm |
Pieterskerk, Utrecht Lassus: Homo Melancholicus Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Pieterskerk, Utrecht, Pieterskerkhof 3, Utrecht 3512 JR, Netherlands Sunday 1-Sep-13 05:00pm Lassus: Homo Melancholicus A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Cappella Amsterdam / Daniel Reuss Lassus: Homo Melancholicus Daniel Reuss has put together a programme chiefly comprising five- and six-voice settings of his favourite composer Lassus. Regarding his selection of late motets, death and mortality are the prevailing themes. This comes as no surprise: in his letters Lassus frequently described his unstable state which did not improve with the passing years. In 1574 he wrote: ‘Never in my entire life could I experience such a melancholic state or such loneliness as now, unless I were to get drunk day and night.’ However, Lassus was naturally capable of sublimating his state of mind in order to create unforgettable music. | ||
| Sunday 1-Sep-13 05:00pm |
Geertekerk, Utrecht From the War of the Spanish Succession to the Treaty of Utrecht Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Geertekerk, Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, Utrecht 3511 XC, Netherlands Sunday 1-Sep-13 05:00pm From the War of the Spanish Succession to the Treaty of Utrecht A € 21 / € 19 / € 10 B € 18 / € 16 / € 10 Camerata Trajectina From the War of the Spanish Succession to the Treaty of Utrecht How did the average person in the Netherlands experience the turbulent years of the early 18th century? The compilation of songs entitled De Gekroonde Utrechtze Vreede (Amsterdam 1718) gives us some insight into this, with its songs about the sea and field battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, marches for the international generals and jubilant songs celebrating the Treaty. There were also diverting songs, such as the song of the Utrecht whores who were overworked as a result of the many visitors connected with the Utrecht negotiations. | ||
| Sunday 1-Sep-13 08:00pm |
Domkerk, Utrecht Lassus: Trionfi Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht |
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| Domkerk, Utrecht, Domplein, Utrecht 3512 JN, Netherlands Sunday 1-Sep-13 08:00pm Lassus: Trionfi A € 35 / € 32 / € 10 B € 30 / € 27 / € 10 Huelgas ensemble / Paul Van Nevel Lassus: Trionfi In literary history Petrarch is chiefly known as the author of the Canzoniere, the cycle of 366 poems inspired by his platonic adoration of the legendary Laura. However, until into the 17th century his cycle Trionfi was by far the most popular work in the Italian language, almost rivalling the fame of Dante’s Divina Commedia. Orlandus Lassus only set fragments of Petrarch’s text to music in his later years. As always, he chose text fragments that allowed his inspiration to blossom and stimulated his poetic imagination: incorporating concepts such as transience, dreams, taking one’s leave, nostalgia for one’s youth and ceremonial glory. Performed by 12 singers, recorders, baroque trombone, violin and gamba, the closing concert of the 2013 Early Music Festival is as much a tribute to Petrarch as to Lassus. After all, thanks to his musical expressive power and versatility, the latter enables us to enter into the intimate world of one of Europe’s greatest humanists. | ||
