AMUZ commits itself again this year to the creation of a forum that will enable musicologists and musicians to get together, to combine theory and meet practice, and to exchange ideas. In collaboration with the Alamire Foundation and the Research Unit Musicology of the Catholic University Leuven a conference of several days will be organized with music specialists from various disciplines. They will provide contributions about a central topic that is closely related to the festival theme. In other words: the focus will be on manuscripts here too, and more specifically on those in which music for the prayer times has been preserved. The Low Countries hold an exceptionally rich manuscript collection, originating in the communities and services of a monastic, ecclesiastical and courtly nature. Equally variegated are the contents of those manuscripts which provide the focus for these days of debating, at the same time functioning as a source of inspiration for the noon concert that Capilla Flamenca presents in the framework of this conference on 23 August.

Enrolment in advance is required.
Further information: +32 (0) 16 32 87 50 | info@alamirefoundation.be | http://www.alamirefoundation.org/en

In collaboration with K.U.Leuven, Alamire Foundation, Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek & IMS – Cantus Planus

Here you can download the conference program.

21 August, 2010 16:00 -- Elzenveld

AMUZ commits itself again this year to the creation of a forum that will enable musicologists and musicians to get together, to combine theory and meet practice, and to exchange ideas. In collaboration with the Alamire Foundation and the Research Unit Musicology of the Catholic University Leuven a conference of several days will be organized with music specialists from various disciplines. They will provide contributions about a central topic that is closely related to the festival theme. In other words: the focus will be on manuscripts here too, and more specifically on those in which music for the prayer times has been preserved. The Low Countries hold an exceptionally rich manuscript collection, originating in the communities and services of a monastic, ecclesiastical and courtly nature. Equally variegated are the contents of those manuscripts which provide the focus for these days of debating, at the same time functioning as a source of inspiration for the noon concert that Capilla Flamenca presents in the framework of this conference on 23 August.

Enrolment in advance is required.
Further information: +32 (0) 16 32 87 50 | info@alamirefoundation.be | http://www.alamirefoundation.org/en

In collaboration with K.U.Leuven, Alamire Foundation, Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek & IMS – Cantus Planus

Here you can download the conference program.

21 August, 2010 16:00 -- Elzenveld

The choice of Paul Van Nevel and his Huelgas Ensemble as artists in residence for MANU SCRIPTUM was only a logical step, given his long-standing fascination with obscure archives and centuries-old library treasures. For Van Nevel the availability of a manuscript offers an edge of advantage that can hardly be overestimated, because the relationship between composer, performer and original venue is nowhere else that intimate. This thesis certainly holds true also for the Eton Choir Book, the priceless music manuscript whose origin and use are completely embedded in the context of its parent institution Eton College. The Huelgas Ensemble brings music from the early 16th-century codex, framed by a selection from a somewhat older and a somewhat newer repertoire. This wonderfully eclectic edition of Laus Polyphoniae thus pushes off with a fabulous voyage through the landscape of religious music in pre-Reformation England. Enjoy!

Performers
Stefan Berghammer, Griet De Geyter, Joel Frederiksen, Sabine Lutzenberger, Poline Renou, Michaëla Riener, Achim Schulz, Harry van Berne, Erik Van Nevel, Matthew Vine, Witte Weber, Terry Wey & Tim Scott Whiteley, voice | Paul Van Nevel, artistic direction

Programme
Werk van John Browne, Robert Wylkynson, Walter Lambe a.o.

21 August, 2010 18:00 -- St.-Carolus Borromeuskerk

Proudly Laus Polyphoniae presents for the first time the new ensemble of ‘ami d’AMUZ’ Thomas Baeté: ClubMediéval. It offers a concert programme based on the Squarcialupi Codex, the richly decorated manuscript with the largest anthology of Italian music from the 14th century that we know of. Ironically enough it was exactly the mysterious 16 blank folios in this manuscript that kept haunting Baeté. Why were those sheets never filled up? Did the scribe have to discontinue his work unexpectedly? And if so, why? For what kind of music could these pages have been intended? The brand new ensemble right away proves its mettle from its most creative angle and makes a bold attempt to complete Squarcialupi’s legendary white folios. A debut that commands respect!
 

Performers
Olalla Alemàn, soprano | Francesca Cassinari, soprano | Raffaele Giordani, tenor | Guillermo Pérez, organetto | Margit Übellacker, psaltery | Thomas Baeté, viol & artistic direction

 

21 August, 2010 20:15 -- AMUZ

As a monument of late medieval and early renaissance organ music the Buxheimer Organ Book remains even today unique in the history of the repertoire for this instrument. AMUZ therefore takes special pleasure in offering you the enormous richness of this South German organ school and requested the assistance of a keyboard legend: Marcel Pérès, who will present a highly personal selection with an equally personal touch. After the concert breakfast will be waiting for you. In the afternoon this festival day will offer the ideal opportunity to hear the master again with his ensemble Organum!

Performers
Marcel Pérès, organ

22 August, 2010 07:00 -- Elzenveld

The musical oeuvre of the 12th-century Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen constitutes a special branch within the Gregorian tradition of the Rhineland, what with its many melismata, its wide-ranging tone gamut, and its personal touch in the shaping of melody. To this music, which sounds otherworldly, is added yet another touch by medievalist Marcel Pérès. On the basis of musicological research Pérès has decided to make his female singers use their chest voice. The result differs considerably from traditional interpretations. At last we get in touch with the grounds for existence of Hildegard’s songs, i.e. to penetrate into a deeper spiritual world through ‘ruminatio’ (chewing things over). Get steeped into this contemplative medieval song practice and become a firsthand witness of this masterly sample of musical archaeology!

Performers
Marcel Pérès, artistic direction

22 August, 2010 13:00 -- St.-Jacobskerk