Il bel viso

Volgendo il ciel per l’immortal sentiero, SV154, uit madrigaalboek VIII – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Ohime il bel viso, SV112, uit madrigaalboek VI – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Pass’e Mezzo Antico di Sei Parti – Giovanni Picchi (1571-1643)
Altri canti di Marte e di sua schiera, SV155, uit madrigaalboek VIII – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Sfogava con le stelle, SV78, uit madragaalboek IV – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Amor che deggio far, SV144, uit madrigaalboek VII – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Canzon VII Toni – Fr. Mat. Vendi (fl. 16de-17de eeuw)
Non havea Febo ancora: Lamento della ninfa, SV163, uit madrigaalboek VIII – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace, SV147, uit madrigaalboek VIII – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Laus Polyphoniae 2020 | Polyphony connects
Live concert without audience, online from 20.00 p.m. & broadcast on Klara

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Escoutez tous gentilz galoys – Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – after 1558)

Laus Polyphoniae 2020 | Polyphony connects
Online from 22.00 p.m., with an impression by Sofie Taes

Motets from the Montpellier Codex

The celebrated female quartet Anonymous 4 did not hesitate to choose the Montpellier Codex as their central musical source. With a sharp eye and ear for quality, a selection was made of French motets inspired by courtly love poetry. The French double motet is the genre that happens to be the best represented one in the Codex; the tenor or the melodic foundation in those motets is often borrowed from Gregorian plainchant, but sometimes also derives from a more popular repertoire or from dance music. Often those songs remind us of the art of the French trouvères, and sometimes trouvère songs were even integrated into the treble voices of those motets! Thematically there is a wide range of emotions, but the common denominator remains: love. From the ecstatic adoration of the Virgin Mary and the sensual love lament to the enraptured drinking song, Anonymous4 evokes from the source the complexity and the multifarious facets of courtly love around 1300.

Laus Polyphoniae 2020 | Polyphony connects
Online from 10.00 a.m., with an introduction by Susan Hellauer and a cri de coeur from Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

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Petrus Alamire lived and worked in Antwerp and Mechelen five hundred years ago. He was more than just an excellent music scribe. His exceptional entrepreneurship and organisational talent and the hub provided by the art-loving Habsburg Burgundian court enabled Alamire to leave behind a wealth of illuminated music manuscripts and superb Franco-Flemish polyphony.

This documentary film reveals the beauty of the preserved manuscripts from Alamire’s workshop, but also shows how they played a role in the distribution of the polyphony of the late 15th and early 16th centuries and the high regard in which this music was held, in the Low Countries and internationally, in their own time and the present day.

An Alamire Foundation production in partnership with AMUZ and the King Baudouin Foundation

Laus Polyphoniae 2020 | Polyphony connects
Online from Mon 22.08.2020, 10.00 a.m.

Berricuocoli donne e confortini – Anonymous

Laus Polyphoniae 2020 | Polyphony connects
Online from 22.00 p.m., with an impression by Frederic Delmotte

Nuit et iour – amorous obsession in ars nova repertoire

Nuit et iour explores the extremities of love poetry in the ars nova: from overwhelming infatuation to a disastrous breakup. Sollazzo Ensemble also bridges the gap between amorous and religious love, singing lauds from the 13th century. These hymns helped the laudesi (brotherhoods) to achieve a state of religious ecstasy. The award-winning young Sollazzo Ensemble made an unforgettable impression at Laus Polyphoniae last year. De Standaard wrote: “Seldom is such depth heard on stage”.

Laus Polyphoniae 2020 | Polyphony connects
Online from 10.00 a.m., with an introduction by Michael Scott Cuthbert and a cri de coeur from Katelijne Boon

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