Brochure Utrecht Early Music Festival 2017 (English) by Organisatie Oude Muziek

MUSIC FROM THE REFORMATIONS

Foreword

MUZIEK VAN DE REFORMATIES Xavier Vandamme directing manager

This year countless events are taking place to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses concerning indulgences. The year 1517 gained overwhelming symbolic significance as the official start of an unstoppable revolution within European history. But Luther’s act of rebellion was anything but an isolated event. Throughout Europe there were ideological shifts going on, with movements of many hues springing up in different regions and in different contexts. In this Festival, therefore, we are not going in search of some hypothetical unique essence of ‘The Reformation’. We prefer to present a multitude of ideas and movements, large and small, which together created an exciting field of influence. In terms of the music we are concentrating on the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, plus their immediate antecedents and the direct results of so much revolutionary energy. A few special projects immediately catch the eye: the inAuguration of TivoliVredenburg’s new large Baroque organ, a mini-festival with 150 psalms set by an equal number of composers, a dance spectacle at the court of the French king François I – everything that Calvin so abhorred! – and Benjamin Alard playing Bach’s Clavier-Übung in its entirety. The Counter-Reformation also receives attention, and the theatre production Musica Fugit reminds us of the hundreds of thousands of religious refugees in the seventeenth century. The STIMU symposium and the new series entitled What's new? reflect on both the past and the future of the Early Music Movement. It’s going to be a colourful Festival, with depth and with room for reflection, and, as always, packed with festive moments. A huge thank you and congratulations to our many partners and friends, and a warm welcome to you this summer in Utrecht! %%% %

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FR 25 AUG

SA 26 AUG

SU 27 AUG

MO 28 AUG

TU 29 AUG

10.00 Dance workshop UCK

13.00 A GUIDE TO EARLY MUSIC UCK

9.00

Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman's Huis

9.30

ZS: Andrew Pettegree (I) TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Katarina Livjanić TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Andrew Pettegree (II) TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Thérèse Boshoven TivoliVredenburg

Musica Fugit (10.00) Leeuwenbergh

11.00

Hopkinson Smith TivoliVredenburg

The Attaignant Consort TivoliVredenburg

Duo Serenissima TivoliVredenburg

Lorenzo Ghielmi TivoliVredenburg

13.00

Benjamin Alard Lutherse Kerk

Benjamin Alard TivoliVredenburg

Benjamin Alard Lutherse Kerk

Musica Fugit (14.00) Leeuwenbergh

Tasto Solo Willibrordkerk

Cappella Mariana Nicolaïkerk

Alamire Pieterskerk

Per-Sonat & Concerto Palatino Geertekerk

Huelgas Ensemble Jacobikerk

La Morra Willibrordkerk

Malgosia Fiebig (11.00)

Luc Rombouts

Vincent Hensen (11.00)

Malgosia Fiebig

Cantar Lontano Pieterskerk

La Fonte Musica Pieterskerk

Graindelavoix Domkerk

Capella de la Torre & Tiburtina Nicolaïkerk

laReverdie Geertekerk

Huelgas Ensemble Domkerk

Malgosia Fiebig (18.00)

What's new?

La Divina Armonia TivoliVredenburg

Correspondances TivoliVredenburg

Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

Le Concert Spirituel TivoliVredenburg

Capriccio Stravagante Geertekerk

15.00

16.00

Preview barokorgel TivoliVredenburg

17.00

18.30

Camerata Trajectina Leeuwenbergh

Polyharmonique Pieterskerk

19.30 20.00

Doulce Mémoire Stadsschouwburg

22.30

Nederlandse Bachvereniging Geertekerk

24.00

Olga Pashchenko TivoliVredenburg

Middle Ages

Reinassance

La Divina Armonia (23.00) TivoliVredenburg

Baroque

Dialogos TivoliVredenburg

Organ concerts

Les Voix Humaines TivoliVredenburg

Carillion

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

WE 30 AUG

TH 31 AUG

FR 1 SEP

SA 2 SEP

10.00 Dance workshop UCK

9.00 STIMUsymposium TivoliVredenburg

9.30 STIMUsymposium TivoliVredenburg

10.00 Oude 10.00 Zangworkshop Muziek Markt UCK TivoliVredenburg

14.00 SITMUsymposium TivoliVredenburg

13.00 A GUIDE TO EARLY MUSIC UCK

12.00 Oude Muziek Markt TivoliVredenburg

10.00 Oude Muziek Markt TivoliVredenburg

12.00 Opening Uitfeest TivoliVredenburg

Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman's Huis

ZS: Martin L. van Wijngaarden TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Ernst van den Hemel TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Twan Geurts TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Jed Wentz TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Rachel Brown TivoliVredenburg

Nederlands Kamerkoor TivoliVredenburg

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street TivoliVredenburg

Arjen Verhage Lutherse Kerk

Philippe Pierlot TivoliVredenburg

Choir of Trinity Wall Street TivoliVredenburg

The Tallis Scholars TivoliVredenburg

Pierre Hantaï TivoliVredenburg

Il Caravaggio Geertekerk

Det Norske Solistkor TivoliVredenburg

Servir Antico TivoliVredenburg

Benjamin Alard TivoliVredenburg

Paulet & Geiger TivoliVredenburg

Benjamin Alard Lutherse Kerk

SU 3 SEP

Bosgraaf & Sinkovsky c.s. TivoliVredenburg

Francesco Corti Leeuwenbergh

Ordo Virtutum Willibrordkerk

Musica Nova Willibrordkerk

Le Miroir de Musique Manfredo Kraemer Pieterskerk TivoliVredenburg

Compagnie Musicale Domkerk

Camerata Trajectina Leeuwenbergh

Nederlands Kamerkoor TivoliVredenburg

Choir of Trinity Wall Street TivoliVredenburg

L'Armonia Sonora Geertekerk

Bernard Winsemius

Malgosia Fiebig

Jasper Stam

Gideon Bodden (11.00)

Malgosia Fiebig

Doulce Mémoire Stadsschouwburg

Gesualdo Consort Pieterskerk

Gli Angeli Genève Jacobikerk

Ricercar Consort Catharinakathedraal

Cantus Thuringia Pieterskerk

Utopia & InAlto Pieterskerk

Academy of Ancient Music Geertekerk

Det Norske Solistkor TivoliVredenburg

The Tallis Scholars TivoliVredenburg

Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

What's new?

Lecture Mystery guest

Lecture Michael Ignatieff

Capella de la Torre Geertekerk

Francesco Corti & Il Pomo d'Oro Geertekerk

The Tallis Scholars (20.30) TivoliVredenburg

Nederlands Kamerkoor (20.30) TivoliVredenburg

Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

Benjamin Alard TivoliVredenburg

Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

Vox Luminis (23.00) TivoliVredenburg

Nederlandse Bachvereniging TivoliVredenburg

Capella de la Torre TivoliVredenburg

L'Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

Rachel Brown TivoliVredenburg

150 Psalms

Telemann

Clavier-Übung

What’s new?

Summerschool

SING, FIGHT, WEEP, PRAY

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

It is 500 years since Luther nailed his 95 theses concerning indulgences to the doors of the Castle Chapel in Wittenberg, which at that time served as the university’s notice board. The rapid dissemination of his message – initially in print and later also by means of music – set in motion a revolutionary machine whose field of influence stretched far beyond religion alone. A somewhat delayed but no less innovative reaction developed in response: the Counter-Reformation. Luther loved music with a passion: he was an admirer of the Flemish composer Josquin Desprez and composed music himself. However, a festival dedicated to Reformations – in the plural! - cannot be restricted to early Lutheranism alone. This is why we will also explore the revolutionary power generated by the writings and deeds of Calvin, who, like Luther, was one of the great intellectuals of his time. We will also turn our attention to England, where the context and political undertones are of a totally different order. But here, as elsewhere, events result in fascinating social shifts….and in violence. ‘There’s nothing new under the sun.’ Our story focuses on the 16th century, which, with its new revolutionary spirit, vigorously combats ecclesiastical abuse of power, and on the 15th century, which prepares the way for a complex web of reformations and heresies. With large-scale cantatas, liturgical hymns, cheerful songs, exuberant spectacles and intimate chamber music, this promises to be an exceptional Festival: a musical narrative about shrewd minds, innovators and emotions running high. 555 5

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Inwijdingsfestival voor het nieuwe barokorgel in de Grote Zaal

ORGELFEEST@TIVOLIVREDENBURG INAUGURAL FESTIVAL FOR THE NEW BAROQUE ORGAN IN THE LARGE HALL On Friday, 25 August 2017 the new large organ in TivoliVredenburg is being christened! The instrument, built according to the Baroque standard, is given pride of place under the balcony behind the main stage. The case was designed in close consultation with the concert hall architect Herman Hertzberger, while the organist Peter van Dijk designed the instrument and the Utrecht organ builders Van Vulpen constructed it. It will definitely be a new pearl in the Festival’s crown: fifteen registers, two manuals and a pedalboard, plus an ingenious design that renders the instrument suitable for repertoire from Baroque up to Early Romantic. We’re putting it to the test straightaway. As well as the inAuguration of the organ by artist in residence Lorenzo Ghielmi during the opening concert, every Festival day’s programme will incorporate a concert that illustrates one of the organ’s many different facets. 555 5

Fr 25 Aug 16.00 / Organ preview 20.00 / Lorenzo Ghielmi & La Divina Armonia Sa 26 Aug 24.00 / Olga Pashchenko Su 27 Aug 20.00 / Vox Luminis Mo 28 Aug 13.00 / Benjamin Alard

Tu 29 Aug 11.00 / Lorenzo Ghielmi We 30 Aug 13.00 / Benjamin Alard 14.30 / Organ workshop for children Th 31 Aug 11.00 / Stéphanie Paulet & Élisabeth Geiger 20.00 / Nederlandse Bachvereniging

Fr 1 Sep 9.30-21.30 / 150 Psalms Sa 2 Sep 9.30-21.30 / 150 Psalms Su 3 Sep 12.00 / Opening Uitfeest with Sietze de Vries

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Bovenkop Artist in Residence

KATHARINA BÄUML KOP SUBKOP & CAPELLA DE LA TORRE Music archeologist and born entertainer – an impossible Inleiding combination? Artist in residence Katharina Baüml proves that it is possible. As a graduate of the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where she specialized in early wind instruments, she has no trouble finding her way around centuriesold scores and treatises.Platte Buttekst on the concert stage her 5 5 5 . Together with Capella de watchword is ‘prima la musica’ la Torre, founded in 2005 and5now Germany’s leading early music ensemble, Baüml guarantees concerts with plenty of atmosphere, lots of guts and tons of imagination. With more than twenty recordings and an ECHO Klassik award to her name, the ‘grande dame of the reed’ and her Capella invite you to experience the finest polyphony from Rome during the Counter-Reformation, a celebrity’s wedding feast and a young monk’s stage fright: a triptych packed with musical delight and bearing Baüml’s unmistakable hallmark. 555 5 Kalender

Tu 29 Aug 17.00 / Nicolaïkerk (with Tiburtina Ensemble) Tomás Luis de Victoria: Vidi Speciosam

Th 31 Aug 22.30 / TivoliVredenburg, Hertz Help, I'm going to be a monk

Fr 1 Sep 20.00 / Geertekerk Luther's marriage

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Bovenkop Artist in Residence

KOP LORENZO GHIELMI SUBKOP & LA DIVINA ARMONIA Inleiding

The ‘Uomo universale’does exist! Lorenzo Ghielmi is a researcher and author, composer, organist, harpsichordist, fortepianist, master improviser and conductor.

Once co-founder of Il Giardino Armonico, he now has his own ensemble, La Divina Armonia (2005): this is no crazy turbo Baroque, but hyperefficient declamation and a sound culture that commands respect. Anyone who has heard Ghielmi play the organ or harpsichord live can confirm that his insight into form and style results in exceptionally concentrated performances. Thanks to the attentive phrasing and crystal-clear articulation, each work becomes an unforgettable narrative that captivates the listener until the very last note. Ghielmi is performing three times in Utrecht: he will christen the new organ in TivoliVredenburg, present ‘Organistenmusiken’ from Luther’s Germany, give an organ recital of repertoire from the Reformation and CounterReformation, and even play a work of his own. 222 2 2

Fr 25 Aug 20.00 / TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal Bubbly with Bach

Su 27 Aug 23.00 / TivoliVredenburg, Hertz Organistenmusiken: cantatas, concerti and motets

Tu 29 Aug 11.00 / TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal Between strife and reconciliation

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Flamboyant Renaissance spectacle with Doulce Mémoire

MAGNIFICENCES AT THE COURT OF FRANÇOIS I An evening without television, computer games or internet: boring? Not at the court of the French king François I! This Renaissance monarch achieved fame with his victories on the battlefield, but this was possibly exceeded by the notoriety he acquired due to his excessive court spectacles, or ‘Magnificences’: a series of tableaux with musical entertainment of various sorts – from filthy chansons and wild dances to theatre and acrobatics. This copious menu sent the courtiers into ecstasies, but must have filled one man with horror: church reformer John Calvin, who must have found few signs of godliness in the festivities of the Catholic court. Doulce Mémoire has created a programme from pretty well everything Calvin didn’t like: a farmers’ party, war songs, an allegorical ballet, a dance battle, an ode to the Harmony of the Spheres and much more... With Tarot cards determining the order of the tableaux, you won’t know where to look: Renaissance costumes made of miles of the most splendid silk, rare columnar recorders and complex choreographies… a journey through time you’ll never forget! $$$ $

Tu 29 Aug 20.00 / Stadsschouwburg, Douwe Egberts Zaal Dance performance: Magnificences à la cour de François I

We 30 Aug 17.00 / Stadsschouwuburg, Douwe Egberts Zaal Dance performance: Magnificences à la cour de François I

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The Holy Grail of keyboard music in 7 concerts

BENJAMIN ALARD PLAYS BACH’S CLAVIER-ÜBUNG Harpsichordist and organist Benjamin Alard has been following in Bach’s footsteps for years now, and during this edition of the Festival he will climb the Parnassus of his hero’s keyboard oeuvre: the Clavier-Übung, a four-part collection of compositions for various keyboard instruments. Alard has pieced together seven breathtaking solo recitals. On the organ and harpsichord he will play the six Partitas (Book I), the Italian Concerto and the Overture in the French Style (Book II), the German Organ Mass and the four duets (Book III, which Bach published in 1739 on the occasion of the festivities in Leipzig surrounding the 200th anniversary of Luther’s Reformation sermon in the Thomaskirche), finishing off with Book IV, the Goldberg Variations. And as if the challenge weren’t great enough already, he will play it all by heart. 444 4

Sa 26 Aug 13.00 / Lutherse Kerk Episode 1 (harpsichord) Su 27 Aug 13.00 / Lutherse Kerk Episode 2 (harpsichord) Mo 28 Aug 13.00 / TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal Episode 3 (organ)

Tu 29 Aug 13.00 / Lutherse Kerk Episode 4 (harpsichord) We 30 Aug 13.00 / TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal Episode 5 (organ)

Th 31 Aug 13.00 / Lutherse Kerk Episode 6 (harpsichord) Sa 2 Sep 22.30 / TivoliVredenburg, Hertz Episode 7: Goldberg Variations (harpsichord)

Zing, Vecht, Huil, Bid / Reformatie(s) in Muzikal Perspectief

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Taking flight with Kamchàtka

MUSICA FUGIT During the past year there was not one newspaper or news broadcast that didn’t report on the plight of refugees, driven out by hate and violence and in search of a better life. But streams of refugees have appeared throughout history. For example, in 1685 Louis XIV caused a mass migration by revoking the Edict of Nantes, thereby bringing to an end the tolerant attitude towards Protestantism. Hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled intolerant France, to settle in England and the Netherlands. Not until a hundred years later was religious freedom restored. Street theatre group Kamchàtka plunges us into the world of the refugee. Fleeing is here perceived as an act of rebellion and an expression of personal freedom. A person in flight can’t make it alone: the solidarity of travel companions, neighbours and passers-by is crucial. Musica Fugit is a confrontational but above all warm, humane homage to refugees. In this wordless production you too can become part of the show. Suspense, mystery, solidarity, melancholy, hope and generosity permeate the journey you are taking alongside the actors and musicians. The last note does not signify the end of the journey: out of the togetherness emerges a new beginning. 444 4 Sa 26 Aug 10.00 and 14.00 / Leeuwenbergh Musica Fugit

Su 27 Aug 10.00 and 14.00 / Leeuwenbergh Musica Fugit

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WHAT’S NEW? NEW? RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN EARLY MUSIC There’s plenty going on in the world of early music. Every day musicologists and performers dig around tirelessly in search of supposedly lost masterpieces, age-old playing techniques and the secrets of instrument-making geniuses. The result? Discoveries, surprises, insight, nuance and perspective. With What’s New? the Early Music Festival is launching a fresh format for those who are hungry for music news and thirsty for knowledge. From now on these free presentations, which precede evening concerts, will become the forum for those who wish to keep a close eye on Research and Development within early music. After an intensely enthralling half-hour you will be totally up to date. 444 4

Sa 26 Aug 18.30 / Anne Pustlauk Su 27 Aug 18.30 / Mimi Mitchell Mo 28 Aug 18.30 / Yana Borisova

Tu 29 Aug 18.30 / Martha Cook We 30 Aug 18.30 / Tamar Hestrin Grader Th 31 Aug 18.30 / Maggie Urquhart

Fr 1 Sep 18.30 / Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano Sa 2 Sep 18.30 / Geoffrey Burgess Su 3 Sep 18.30 / João Luís Paixão

Zing, Vecht, Huil, Bid / Reformatie(s) in Muzikal Perspectief

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

1,000 years of choral music in 12 concerts

150 PSALMS For monks they are beacons in time: the musical rhythm of the day. Jews consider them the heritage of King David, who in his poetry portrayed the human soul. And for music addicts they form the foundations of a majestic repertoire, which encompasses the most diverse forms and styles… The Psalms are primeval songs in which every strong emotion and life theme is represented. Far more than merely being ‘the word of God’, they are the expression of what man thinks and feels. In cooperation with the Nederlands Kamerkoor we are presenting 150 Psalms: the largest mini-festival imaginable, in which all 150 Psalms, by an equal number of composers, can be heard. Four choirs – joining the Nederlands Kamerkoor are the Renaissance specialists, The Tallis Scholars, the excellent Det Norske Solistkor and the New York Trinity Wall Street Choir – will perform the Psalms over two days, in a massive twelve-part concert cycle, supplemented by speakers in the fringe programme. We will hear not only centuries-old psalm settings, but also brand new works, commissioned by the Festival. $$$ $ $

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150 PSALMS PROGRAM TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER

SATURDAY 2 SEPTEMBER

9.30 hrs A mirror for today's society Nederlands Kamerkoor / Peter Dijkstra

9.30 hrs Justice The Choir of Trinity Wall Street / Julian Wachner

11.00 hrs Leadership The Choir of Trinity Wall Street / Julian Wachner

11.00 hrs Security The Tallis Scholars / Peter Philips

13.00 hrs Faith Det Noske Solistkor / Grete Pedersen

13.00 hrs Path of life Det Norske Solistkor / Grete Pedersen

15.00 hrs Suffering Nederlands Kamerkoor / Peter Dijkstra

15.00 hrs Powerlessness and deliverance The Choir of Trinity Wall Street / Julian Wachner

17.00 hrs On the run Det Norske Solistkor / Grete Pedersen

17.00 hrs Power and oppression The Tallis Scholars / Peter Philips

19.30 hrs Lecture mystery guest

19.30 hrs Lecture Michael Ignatieff

20.30 hrs Gratitude The Tallis Scholars / Peter Philips

20.30 hrs Celebration Nederlands Kamerkoor / Peter Dijkstra

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASSES The renowned Montisi harpsichord summer course is coming to Utrecht for the second time. For up-and-coming keyboard heroes this intense week is an absolute must. Founded by harpsichord and clavichord builder Bruce Kennedy, the course has in previous Festival editions been able to count on a constellation of top teachers – from Gustav Leonardt and Christophe Rousset to Bob van Asperen and Pierre Hantaï. During the day individual study alternates with concerts, musical encounters and many other delights – from monuments and museums to cafés and culinaria. Work hard, play hard! But in the morning it’s only the keys that count: in demanding masterclasses given this year by the international keyboard stars Pierre Hantaï, Marco Mencoboni and Richard Egarr, the musicians explore new terrain and push back frontiers in the areas of repertoire, technique and interpretation. The summer school is a win-win situation: while the young lions take their place at the keyboard, you as an observer can enjoy the instructive interaction with their teachers. 555 5

GIVEN IN ENGLISH MAX. 40 LISTENERS SEE ORDER FORM FOR DAY PASSES AND PASSEPARTOUTS

Sa 26 Aug 9.00 / Pierre Hantaï Su 27 Aug 9.00 / Pierre Hantaï Mo 28 Aug 9.00 / Pierre Hantaï

Tu 29 Aug 9.00 / Marco Mencoboni We 30 Aug 9.00 / Marco Mencoboni Th 31 Aug 9.00 / Marco Mencoboni

Fr 1 Sep 9.00 / Richard Egarr Sa 2 Sep 9.00 / Richard Egarr Su 3 Sep 9.00 / Richard Egarr

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SUMMER SCHOOL CLEVER BACKGROUND STORIES Behind every Festival theme is hidden a treasure chest full of stories. Curious? Then this Summer School is for you. For this edition of the Festival we have yet again compiled a packed programme of succinct lectures based around themes central to the Festival. In no time at all our experts’ vivid stories will lend context to the music, so that from now on you can savour it even more. All the lectures are of the highest quality, but this year we are particularly pleased with the two presentations by Professor Andrew Pettegree, author of the international bestseller Brand Luther. dd d

THE SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURES WLIL BE GIVEN IN DUTCH OR ENGLISH.

Sa 26 Aug 9.30 / Andrew Pettegree (I) Su 27 Aug 9.30 / Katarina Livjanić Mo 28 Aug 9.30 / Andrew Pettegree (II)

Tu 29 Aug 9.30 / Thérèse Boshoven We 30 Aug 9.30 / Martin L. van Wijngaarden Th 31 Aug 9.30 / Ernst van den Hemel

Fr 1 Sep 9.30 / Twan Geurts Sa 2 Sep 9.30 / Jed Wentz Su 3 Sep 9.30 / Erik Bosgraaf

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The finest produced by the man from Magdeburg

MAGICIAN TELEMANN Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the very greatest figures in Baroque music, died precisely 250 years ago. He was more popular than his good friend J.S.Bach! Idolized by his contemporaries, Telemann then proceeded to be forgotten for centuries. It is time for a serious re-evaluation of him, in which the Early Music Festival is glad to play a leading role. The wealth of colours in his music, the unique way in which he reconciles French, Italian, Polish and German elements, the inventiveness and unbridled imagination: discover the magician Telemann during various Festival concerts and a genuine Telemann weekend. Special attention is being given to the solo Fantasies which he composed for different instruments - violin, harpsichord and traverso - and to the only recently discovered one for gamba. There is an opera evening, and the renowned recorder player Erik Bosgraaf is playing trio sonatas with violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky. A selection from Telemannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cantatas provides the icing on the cake. 444 4

Sa 2 Sep 11.00 / Philippe Pierlot 13.00 / Il Caravaggio 15.00 / Manfredo Kraemer

17.00 / Ricercar Consort 20.00 / Il Pomo d'Oro / Francesco Corti 24.00 / Rachel Brown

Su 3 Sep 9.30 / Summer school Erik Bosgraaf 11.00 / Erik Bosgraaf & Dmitry Sinkovsky & co 13.00 / Francesco Corti

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STIMU-symposium Bovenkop

WHY LOOK BACK? KOP SUBKOP THE SEDUCTIVE POWER OF THE MUSICAL PAST During this edition of the STIMU symposium – our annual Inleiding encounter with experts from the field of performance and musicology – the Early Music Festival is looking in the mirror. Why early music? Did the seductive power of the past (as Wanda Landowska described it) rightly win the day, or was Richard Strauss’ Platte feartekst of a reactionary tendency 5 5 the Early Music Movement well-founded? It is now clear5that 5 was no 20th-century phenomenon, but dates from at least a hundred years earlier. In this symposium the account of the historical approach to music becomes itself an object of reflection. The lectures examine basic principles such as objectivity and the use of original instruments on the one hand, and figureheads such as Frans Brüggen, Marie Leonhardt and Paul Sacher on the other. But attention is also paid to evolutions in research WITHhods (e.g. ethnomusicology), shifting attitudes (religious versus aesthetic principles) and trends in theory and practice. The Movement’s story, however, becomes primarily a portrait of its champions and of the often surprising reasons for their rapturous

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IN COOPERATION WITH STIMU STICHTING VOOR MUZIEKHISTORISCHE UITVOERINGSPRAKTIJK We 30 Aug 14.00 hrs / TivoliVredenburg

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Th 31 Aug 9.00 hrs / TivoliVredenburg

Fr 1 Sep 9.30 hrs / TivoliVredenburg

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CARILLON FESTIVAL MORE CONCERTS, MORE MUSIC, MORE FESTIVAL For the seventh time the Early Music Carillon Festival will ring out over the city. For a super luxuriant bath of sound you can let yourself be led from concert to concert by the bells themselves. Would you rather seek out a quiet spot to listen? Then Floraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hof at the corner of the Dom Square and the Servetstraat is the ideal oasis. In the meantime the bells are being manned by masters of the hammers and young up-and-coming talent. Mistress of Ceremonies is city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig, who pays tribute to her illustrious predecessor Jacob van Eyck and anniversary boy Georg Philipp Telemann. 555 5

Fr 25 Aug 18.00 / Malgosia Fiebig Sa 26 Aug 10.15 / Have a peek at the carillon 11.00 / Malgosia Fiebig Su 27 Aug 16.00 / Luc Rombouts Mo 28 Aug 11.00 / Vincent Hensen

Tu 29 Aug 16.00 / Malgosia Fiebig We 30 Aug 16.00 / Bernard Winsemius Th 31 Aug 16.00 / Malgosia Fiebig Fr 1 Sep 16.00 / Jasper Stam

Sa 2 Sep 10.15 / Have a peek at the carillon 11.00 / Gideon Bodden Su 3 Sep 16.00 / Malgosia Fiebig

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16.00 Organ preview TivoliVredenburg

FRIDAY 25 AUGUSTUS

18.00 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

18.45 Utrecht Bellringers Guild Domtoren

20.00 La Divina Armonia TivoliVredenburg

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Friday 25 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

16.00 hrs

ORGAN PREVIEW PRESENTATION AND HANDING OVER OF THE NEW BAROQUE ORGAN € 5,00

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120 minutes With music and text we present TivoliVredenburg’s brand-new organ, just a few hours prior to the opening concert of the Early Music Festival. After the official handing over of the organ by its donor, the Stichting Orgel Comité Muziekcentrum Utrecht, the playing of the very first notes on the organ is – following ancient tradition – entrusted to its designer, Peter van Dijk. In interviews and a round table discussion, specialists and performers will investigate the historical roots of the use of a large organ as basso continuo. With the icing on the cake – a mini-recital by Peter van Dijk – music has the last word!

PRESENTATION: AB NIEUWDORP.

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Friday 25 August

18.00 hrs

MALGOSIA FIEBIG GEIST UND SEELE WIRD VERWIRRET

Domtoren 60 minutes For her first recital city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig immediately achieves the impossible. She will play Bach’s cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret, Fiebig supplements this work with the Aria Variata, a favourite of Gustav Leonhardt’s.

free admission

Friday 25 August

18.45 hrs

UTRECHT BELLRINGERS GUILD PEALING IN THE CITY CENTRE

Binnenstad Utrecht 30 minutes Members of the Utrecht Bellringers Guild provide a festive opening to the Festival by means of a bell concert in the city centre. The pealing gradually grows to become an imposing ‘full peal’, in which all fourteen bells of the Dom Tower sound together, including the enormous Salvator from 1505. This happens only twice a year. Welcome to the early music city of Utrecht!

5 free admission

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Friday 25 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

LA DIVINA ARMONIA / LORENZO GHIELMI BUBBLY WITH BACH 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 36,00 / € 32,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

75 minutes / no break

Order number 02

The Early Music Festival 2017 will start off with a bang! The opening evening is not just the first concert with artist in residence Lorenzo Ghielmi, but also the very first concert involving TivoliVredenburg’s new large Baroque organ! Soloists: Lorenzo Ghielmi, orgel Alice Rossi, soprano GiuSeppina Bridelli, alt Wolf Matthias Friedrich, bass

And who but Bach could provide the perfect soundtrack for that? With the splendid Prelude, Adagio and Fugue BWV 545/564,2 and the Aria variata we first get to hear the new arrival in a solo role. Then the organ, in concertante mode, enters into dialogue with the orchestra and solo voice in the cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret. Finally, all the stops can be pulled out for a party worthy of Bach! The cantata Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, composed for Reformation Day 1725, underlines the exuberant character of the occasion. hh h

OPENING CONCERT AND OFFICIAL ORGAN INAUGURATION BY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

SATURDAY 26 AUGUST

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg ... Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman’s Huis

14.00 Kamchàtka: Musica Fugit Leeuwenbergh ... Fringe various locations

9.30 Summer school: Andrew Pettegree (I) TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Tasto Solo Willibrordkerk ... Huelgas Ensemble Jacobikerk

10.00 Kamchàtka: Musica Fugit Leeuwenbergh

10.15 Have a peek at the carillon Domtoren

11.00 Fringe various locations ... Hopkinson Smith TivoliVredenburg ... Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

12.00 Utrechts Klokkenluiders Gilde Kerktorens Binnenstad

12.30 Fringe various locations 13.00 Benjamin Alard Lutherse Kerk

15.30 Fringe various locations

17.00 Cantar Lontano Pieterskerk ... laReverdie Geertekerk

18.30 What’s new? Anne Pustlauk TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Ensemble Correspondances TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Nederlandse Bachvereniging Geertekerk

24.00 Olga Pashchenko TivoliVredenburg

Early Music Festival

Saturday 26 August

9.00 hrs

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI MASTERCLASS KLAVECIMBEL WITH PIERRE HANTAÏ Polman’s Huis until 12.30 hrs Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00 Order number 03

In just a few years the harpsichord summer course held in the Tuscan town of Montisi has grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. This Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht for the second time, where an international selection of the finest young keyboard players will receive lessons from three master harpsichordists. You can attend these masterclasses as a listener. ) Saturday 26 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: ANDREW PETTEGREE (I) MARTIN LUTHER: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: English.

€ 5,00 Order number 04

In 1516 Martin Luther was a little-known professor at an obscure North German university. Five years later he was the most famous man in Europe. This lecture follows the contours of Luther’s exceptional life, from his early years as the son of a copper mine owner, through his first steps towards the public arena, to his adult years as a father, husband and church leader. )

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Saturday 26 August 10.00 and 14.00 hrs

KAMCHÀTKA / ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN MUSICA FUGIT: INTERACTIEF MUZIEKTHEATER

N.B: to ‘participate’ in this production you need to be mobile and in good physical condition. Mentally, Musica Fugit also requires its audience to be prepared for a significant degree of submission and confrontation.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 05 (10.00) or 09 (14.00)

Leeuwenbergh 90 minutes What if the world as you know it suddenly ceases to exist? What if your whole life changes and you no longer recognize yourself? Do you bend, break or… flee? Street theatre group Kamchàtka presents: Musica Fugit – an improvisatory and interactive musical adventure in which fleeing becomes a way of life. With music by Barbara Strozzi, J.S. Bach and John Playford, you yourself become part of the show. ) Saturday 26 August

11.00 hrs

BEIAARD: MALGOSIA FIEBIG TOUR AROUND EUROPE

+ 10.15 hrs Have a peek at the carillon, in cooperation with Utrecht Marketing (als o on Sa 2 Sep). Duration: 90 minutes, assemble at the entrance of Domtoren, Domplein 21. € 10 per person, order number 06.

free admission

Domtoren 60 minutes Malgosia Fiebig’s second Festival concert takes her to three hubs of Reformation music: Buxtehude’s Germany, where the repertoire for organ was in full bloom; Van Noordt’s Amsterdam, where Sweelinck’s magisterial musical inheritance inspired Van Noordt to write new Psalms and Fantasies; and Charpentier’s Paris, where life got harder and harder for the Protestants, and the Jesuits fanned the fire of the Counter-Reformation. )

Early Music Festival

Saturday 26 August

11.00 hrs

HOPKINSON SMITH THIS IS HOW HEAVEN MUST SOUND

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 07

John Dowland’s ‘heavenly touch’ and ‘divine hands’ were extolled by many of his contemporaries. In this concert the most illustrious of all the Tudor lutenists is flanked by others who also displayed superior plucking skills during the last quarter of the sixteenth century, Hopkinson Smith will transport us to various European courts – including that of Queen Elizabeth I of England and King Francois I of France – during the Reformation era. ) Saturday 26 August

12.00 hrs

UTRECHT BELLRINGERS GUILD THE SOUND OF BELLS AND GUIDED WALKS

Assemble on Domplein, from where guides will let you explore western or southern routes.

free admission

Binnenstad Utrecht 30 minutes What does Utrecht sound like? Just come and discover for yourself, together with the Utrecht Bellringers Guild. The fourteen bells of the Dom Tower give the starting signal for a relay of bronze beauties that make the city centre reverberate, buzz and sing. Don’t miss a second of these aural fireworks, and follow our guides to the best spots for listening to them. The walks are free but places are in limited supply. )

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Saturday 26 August

13.00 hrs

BENJAMIN ALARD CLAVIER-ÜBUNG / EPISODE 1 (HARPSICHORD)

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: € 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 2: € 16,00 / € 14,00 / € 10,00 Order number 08

When in 1726 Bach published his Partita no 1, it was not just the starting shot for Bach’s activities as a music publisher, but also the instigation of one of the Clavier-Übung – a four-part ‘encyclopedia’ of keyboard music that represents the zenith of Bach’s ability. Benjamin Alard begins his expedition through this amazing sound landscape with the Partitas 1 and 2 from the first book and three manualiter Kyries and the third Duetto from Book III. ) Saturday 26 August

15.00 hrs

TASTO SOLO MUSIC FOR THE YOUNG LUTHER

Soloists: Barbara Zanichelli, soprano Albert Riera, tenor Tomàs Maxé, bariton

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 10

Willibrordkerk 60 minutes The Spanish keyboard artists of Tasto Solo explore the biotope of the young Luther: a world that is changing, where political and religious conflicts, combined with the arrival of Humanism and the Renaissance in the arts, usher in a new era. The selection of music ranges from a mass from Luther’s year of birth to a ‘deploratio’ on the death of Heinrich Isaac in 1517 – the year in which Luther posted his 95 theses. )

Early Music Festival

Saturday 26 August

15.00 hrs

HUELGAS ENSEMBLE / PAUL VAN NEVEL IN THE EYE OF THE COUNTER-REFORMATION Jacobikerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 11

In the first of two appearances at the Festival Paul Van Nevel and his Huelgas Ensemble will present a triptych of Counter-Reformation figureheads: Jacobus de Kerle, Vincenzo Ruffo and Tomás Luis de Victoria. In reply to the complaints coming from the Council of Trent, these composers proved that boundaries don’t have to be restricting, and that a real genius can still create beauty while sticking to the rules. ) Saturday 26 August

17.00 hrs

CANTAR LONTANO / MARCO MENCOBONI LUTHER IN ROME

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 12

Paradise or hell? During his visit to Rome in 1510/11 Luther had mixed feelings: the churches and rituals were most impressive, but the Italian clergy’s secular way of life... Marco Mencoboni sketches a sound landscape of Luther’s Rome, where prayer was accompanied by cultivated Franco-Flemish polyphony, and celebration with songs by Italian bards. The concert takes the form of festive fare served up to Luther. )

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Saturday 26 August

17.00 hrs

LAREVERDIE / CLAUDIA CAFFAGNI VIGILIA ALLE LAUDE DI SANCTA MARIA Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 13

From the twelfth century onwards the church becomes immeasurably rich, and bishops maintain correspondingly princely households. Throughout Europe countermovements spring up. But with Dominicans and Franciscans, reformation is also germinating within the church. The Italian laReverdie explores their monophonic song collections from the Cortona and Florence manuscripts, and bring the lauda tradition back to life. ) Saturday 26 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? ANNE PUSTLAUK THE KEYED FLUTE : 1790-1850

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: Dutch.

free admission

The flute had its heyday in the first half of the nineteenth century. Today very little is known about the repertoire or the playing technique in those days. This is why Anne Pustlauk, for her doctorate, chose to do research into the performance practice of the keyed flute, on the basis of original instruments, flute WITHhods and other texts about the flute, its players and its repertoire. )

Early Music Festival

Saturday 26 August TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE CORRESPONDANCES / SÉBASTIEN DAUCÉ FROM DUMONT TO CHARPENTIER: POLITICS, RELIGION AND MUSIC UNDER LOUIS XIV 1: € 38,00 / € 28,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 36,00 / € 26,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 34,00 / € 24,00 / € 10,00

90 minutes / intermission included

Order number 14

By means of the Edict of Nantes the French King Henri IV – himself a protestant who had converted to Catholicism – managed to quieten down the religious conflicts in his country. But his grandson Louis XIV held a different view about the Huguenots: ‘My grandfather loved them, my father was afraid of them; I myself don’t love them and neither am I afraid of them.’ In 1685 the Sun King revokes the agreement with the Protestants. The result: a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen heading north and to England. The programme presented by Ensemble Correspondances focuses on Louis’ power with regard to religion. He was the man who devised a ritual in which the king played as central a role as God himself. Music plays a crucial part in this power game, and we hear how the young Louis, together with Dumont, develops the new genre of the grand motet in order to underline this. In the second part of the concert we hear the grandly conceived music that we associate with the older Louis, as well as Charpentier’s Te Deum, which begins with the ‘Eurovision signature tune’. Whether Charpentier worked directly for the king or not, the piece was probably written for a military victory in 1692, which reveals to what a great extent religion, politics and art were intertwined. $

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Early Music Festival

Saturday 26 August

Geertekerk

22.30 hrs

NEDERLANDSE BACHVERENIGING / JOS VAN VELDHOVEN BUXTEHUDE'S MEMBRA JESU NOSTRI 1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Order number 15

60 minutes Johann Sebastian Bach was a great admirer of Dieterich Buxtehude. That immediately explains why on this occasion the Bach experts in the Netherlands have opted for works by the illustrious organ master! Membra Jesu Nostri is a cycle of seven cantatas which together form an impressive meditation on the body of Christ. Brace yourself for the entrance of the gamba consort: symbol of the heart which houses God’s love. Our prediction? Goose bumps! $$$ $

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

24.00 hrs

Saturday 26 August

OLGA PASHCHENKO LAMENT: BUXTEHUDE, BÖHM, WECKMANN

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Prize-winner at two different editions of the Musica Antiqua Bruges Competition, double prize-winner during the 2014 Bach Competition in Leipzig and artist in residence during the Early Music Festival 2016: Utrecht is only too delighted to welcome Olga Paschenko again with open arms! In this intimate recital she is playing the new Baroque organ in the Large Hall. The programme consists of music of composers Buxtehude, Böhm and Weckmann.

Order number 16

from 9.00 hrs

Saturday 26 August

FESTIVAL CENTRE TIVOLIVREDENBURG

Every day from 9.00 hrs, TivoliVredenburg is the central hub of the Festival, where you are in the right place for your concert tickets. You heard a fantastic ensemble and want more? Then our CD store is not a stop that can not be missed. Pub Het Gegeven Paard is the best place for the afterglow or to chat in between the various dishes of this rich music menu: a celebration for all senses! $

free admission

SUNDAY 27 AUGUST

Zing, Vecht, Huil, Bid / Muziek van de reformaties

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman’s Huis

14.00 Kamchàtka: Musica Fugit Leeuwenbergh Fringe various locations

9.30 Summer school: Katarina Livjanić TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Cappella Mariana Nicolaïkerk La Morra Willibrordkerk

10.00 Kamchàtka: Musica Fugit Leeuwenbergh

10.30 City walk: Jacob van Eyck Janskerk

11.00 Fringe various locations The Attaignant Consort TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fringe various locations 13.00 Benjamin Alard Lutherse Kerk City walk: Jacob van Eyck Janskerk

15.30 Fringe various locations

16.00 Luc Rombouts Domtoren

17.00 La Fonte Musica Pieterskerk Huelgas Ensemble Domkerk

18.30 What’s new? Mimi Mitchell TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

23.00 La Divina Armonia TivoliVredenburg

Early Music Festival

9.30 hrs

Sunday 27 August

SUMMER SCHOOL: KATARINA LIVJANIĆ BOSNIAN HERESIES AND THEIR SPIRITUAL AND MUSICAL WORLD TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: English.

In this lecture Katarina Livjanic, musical director of Ensemble Dialogos, will discuss heresies in the culture of Bosnian Christians and their relation to surrounding cultures. In doing so, Livljanic will examine the way in which this heritage and these convictions have influenced her own musical research and comparative studies of spirituality. -

€ 5,00 Order number 18

Sunday 27 August

10.30 and 13.00 hrs

CITY WALK: JACOB VAN EYCK WITH THIEMO WIND

Janskerk 90 minutes

€ 7,00 Order number 20 (10.30) 22 (13.00)

Jacob van Eyck (ca 1589 –1657), city carillonneur of Utrecht, was wont to play the recorder on the Janskerkhof of a summer evening. His virtuoso repertoire was handed down in the form of Der Fluyten Lust-hof (The Flute’s Garden of Delights). Van Eyck specialist Thiemo Wind takes you to places where this blind nobleman lived and worked, and tells the story in the context of the Reformation. -

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Sunday 27 August

10.00 and 14.00 hrs

KAMCHÀTKA / ADRIAN SCHVARZSTEIN MUSICA FUGIT: INTERACTIVE MUSIC THEATRE

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 19 (10.00) 24 (14.00)

11.00 hrs

THE ATTAIGNANT CONSORT / KATE CLARK MANY-VOICED

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 21

More voices, more music. Once a privilege reserved for professional musicians, with Luther music became a matter for the whole congregation. New texts set to well-known melodies were often recycled to become Protestant hymns. The Attaignant Consort will visit several centres of musical transformation. An amazing soundscape from Innsbruck via London to Utrecht. -

Early Music Festival

Sunday 27 August

13.00 hrs

BENJAMIN ALARD CLAVIER-ÜBUNG / EPISODE 2 (HARPSICHORD)

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

1: € 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 2: € 16,00 / € 14,00 / € 10,00 Order number 23

In the French Overture and the Italian Concerto from Clavier-Übung II the double keyboard ensures that what is essentially orchestral music is also convincing on one instrument. The selection from Clavier-Übung III includes the second Duetto from the third book and the two manualiter settings of the chorale prelude Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, for which Benjamin Alard opts for the harpsichord rather than the organ. Sunday 27 August

15.00 hrs

CAPPELLA MARIANA / VOJTECH SEMERÁD THE CODEX SPECIÁLNÍK: PRE-REFORMATION IN BOHEMIA Nicolaïkerk 60 minutes

2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 25

Cappella Mariana, the polyphonists from Prague, are known for their expressive performances and attentive interpretation of text. In a combination of singers and ‘soft’ brass instruments, they present music from a special source: the Codex Speciálnik – a fifteenth-century manuscript from the circles around Jan Zelinský, a radical follower of Jan Hus. The composers remain anonymous, but many of the melodies belong to the European musical heritage. -

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Sunday 27 August

15.00 hrs

LA MORRA / MARTI & GONDKO THE MUSICI SEGRETI OF LEO X

Willibrordkerk 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 26

Paus Leo X plays two leading roles in the saga of the Reformation: firstly as an uncompromising church father who excommunicated Luther, and secondly as a notorious music addict who propelled the musical life in Rome to great heights. With Italian songs, French chansons and instrumental compositions from the papal chapel - the ‘musici segreti’ - La Morra let us see into the heart of the most music-crazy pope ever. Sunday 27 August

16.00 hrs

CARILLON: LUC ROMBOUTS BUXTEHUDE, PACHELBEL AND BACH Domtoren 45 minutes

free admission

The end of the Thirty Years War ushered in a golden age for music in Germany. Alongside prestigious princedoms smaller courts also flourished, and whilst public musical life in the free cities blossomed, the Protestant churches became focuses of musical activity. Luc Rombouts, city carillonneur of Tienen and Leuven, makes the bells ring out in jubilation with the music of Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Bach and Telemann! -

Early Music Festival

Sunday 27 August

17.00 hrs

LA FONTE MUSICA / MICHELE PASSOTI THE COUNCIL 0F CONSTANCE

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 27

Before the Reformation presented itself, the Western Schism already existed: the acrimonious conflict between two popes. The shards of this fraternal struggle were never entirely glued back together, in spite of the attempt by the Council of Constance (1414-18) to achieve reconciliation. La Fonte Musica introduce us to musicians in the papal retinue: Zacara, Salinis, Dufay, Hasprois and Dunstaple. Sunday 27 August

17.00 hrs

HUELGAS ENSEMBLE / PAUL VAN NEVEL THE PARISIAN RED WEDDING

Domkerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 28

In their second appearance in this year’s Festival, the Huelgas Ensemble is performing French psalm settings by Claude Le Jeune and Claude Goudimel. These are Calvinist songs for domestic use. A selection of Huguenot chansons complete the programme. In the background can be heard the cries of 23 August 1572, the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, when thousands of Protestants were killed. -

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Sunday 27 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? MIMI MITCHELL THE BAROQUE VIOLIN REVIVAL

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes

free admission

For the performer of Baroque music in the 19th century, wigs and costumes were indispensable accessories. The use of appropriate instruments became common only later. Mimi Mitchell will throw light on her research into the rise of the Baroque violin. Her account starts with visionary eccentrics such as Dolwithsch and Babitz, continues with pioneers like Marie Leonhardt and Alice Harnoncourt, to end with today’s professionals. Sunday 27 August

23.00 hrs

LA DIVINA ARMONIA / LORENZO GHIELMI BACH’S MASS IN B MINOR

Soloists: Alice Rossi, Francesca Cassinari, sopranan Wolf Matthias Friederich, bass

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 30

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes In his second Festival concert, artist in residence Lorenzo Ghielmi is standing up for the organist: a performing musician who prior to Luther played only a subsidiary role, but thanks to the Reformation began playing a leading one. With his wonderful orchestra La Divina Armonia, Ghielmi will play music by three Northern German composers and organ icons: Vincent Lübeck, Franz Tunder and Dietrich Buxtehude, as well as dances by Johann Pachelbel and Johann Adam Reincken. -

Early Music Festival

Sunday 27 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

VOX LUMINIS / LIONEL MEUNIER BACH’S MASS IN B MINOR 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 36,00 / € 32,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

140 minutes / intermission included

Order number 29

It is not so strange that the confirmed Lutheran J.S. Bach composed religious music with a Latin text: the Magnificat and the Missa Brevis were also sung in Protestant churches. However, Bach’s Mass in B minor belongs to some extent outside this context. It is more than merely music to be used in the liturgy: with its brilliant mix of different styles and techniques it demonstrates just what he was capable of, and all in all it was 35 years in the making. A business gift for some prince or monarch, or music for a Roman Catholic church consecration? In other words: a Catholic Bach? The objective has always remained a mystery, but that has not prevented it from becoming part of the canon of classical music. Your guides through this amazing universe are Lionel Meunier and Vox Luminis, who were artists in residence in 2014. Since then the Utrecht Early Music Festival is unthinkable without them! ---

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

MONDAY 28 AUGUST

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg + Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Huis

14.00 Fringe various locations

15.00 Alamire Pieterskerk

9.30 Summer school: Andrew Pettegree (II) TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe various locations

10.00 Dance workshop UCK

17.00 Graindelavoix Domkerk

11.00 Fringe various locations + Duo Serenissima TivoliVredenburg + Vincent Hensen Domtoren

18.30 Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new? Yana Borisova TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fringe various locations

22.30 Dialogos TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Benjamin Alard TivoliVredenburg + A Guide to Early Music UCK

20.00 Le Concert Spirituel TivoliVredenburg

Early Music Festival

Monday 28 August

9.00 hrs

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS WITH PIERRE HANTAÏ Polman’s Huis until 12.30 hrs Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00 Order number 31

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: ANDREW PETTEGREE (II) MARTIN LUTHER: A REFORMATION IN PRINT

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes

€ 5,00 Order number 32

The view that printed books played a crucial role in the dissemination of Martin Luther’s message has long been accepted, and yet remarkably little detailed research has been carried out into printing in Wittenberg itself. In this lecture Andrew Pettegree proposes that the Reformation brought about a regeneration of the printing industry, following decades during which the printing trade had not succeeded in finding a profitable business model. +

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Monday 28 August

10.00 hrs

WORKSHOP RENAISSANCE DANCE I WITH RACHEL FARR

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten 120 minutes

€ 25,00 incl. lunch Order number 33

The Habsburgs always took their own musicians, choreographers and dances with them on state visits. In this way there developed a repertoire, with local chart-toppers and international smash hits! In this first workshop you will dance the most important court dance of the time, the basse danse: “Ses fais comme la dance basse, Puis va avant, et puis rapasse, Puis retourne, puis oultrepasse.” Couldn’t be simpler, surely? + Monday 28 August

11.00 hrs

DUO SERENISSIMA SACRED AIRS DE COUR

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 35

Last year in the Fabulous Fringe, now at the heart of the Festival: the Canadian/Dutch Duo Serenissima. From the 17th-century repertoire of French airs de cours they have chosen creations by Moulinié, Richard and Boësset, but then from a new perspective, because not only secular poetry was set to music, but religious texts too. New material, by composers with a sixth sense for elegance and sensuality. +

Early Music Festival

Monday 28 August

11.00 hrs

CARILLION: VINCENT HENSEN LUTHER, SWEELINCK, BACH

Domtoren 45 minutes

free admission

In his madrigalesque psalm settings Sweelinck is at his most innovative. The young carillon talent Vincent Hensen is combining Sweelinck’s setting of Psalm 23 with works by Bach. In the best Baroque tradition, Hensen – winner of the International Carillon Improvisation Competition in 2015 – is rounding off his programme with an improvisation on Ein feste Burg, one of Luther’s most famous chorales. + Monday 28 August

13.00 hrs

BENJAMIN ALARD CLAVIER-ÜBUNG / EPISODE 3 (ORGAN)

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 36

The ‘German Organ Mass’, ‘Bach’s catechism’, ‘the most virtuoso music ever written for organ’: Clavier-Übung III is the monstre sacré of every organist. The Prelude in E-flat major and the chorales from the Small Catechism which are included in this programme reflect Bach’s ablity as an organist, and demonstrate a whole range of genres, styles and techniques. +

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Monday 28 August

13.00 hrs

A GUIDE TO EARLY MUSIC WITH SASKIA TORNQVIST

Maximum 40 participants / Includes dinner at Restaurant Naast de Markt and voucher for a free program book / There are also Guides to Early Music on 29 and 31 August

€ 115,00 / € 105,00 incl. diner

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten dayfilling program Under the direction of musicologist Saskia Tornqvist, you set off on an exploration of the performance practice of early music and you attend three concerts. 13.00 Introduction 15.00 Alamire 17.00 Graindelavoix 18.30 Dinner 20.00 Le Concert Spirituel +

Order number 37

Monday 28 August

15.00 hrs

ALAMIRE / DAVID SKINNER THOMAS TALLIS

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 38

Ensemble director and researcher David Skinner is specialized in early Tudor music and is the author of an impressive book about Thomas Tallis, who plays a central role in this concert. Although Tallis was Catholic, he became and remained organist of the Chapel Royal: his musical mastery continued to tower above all religious polarization. +

Early Music Festival

Monday 28 August

17.00 hrs

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER ENGLISH DECADENCE AND A PORTUGUESE HERETIC Domkerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 39

Whereas Anglican music was above all supposed to be sober, just before the English Reformation the flamboyant ‘florid style’ was all the rage. John Browne, the star of the Eton Choirbook, made a particularly good name for himself with his compact and imaginative polyphony. As well as a mass in the ‘decadent’ style by his contemporary Thomas Ashwell, this programme also contains a motet by the Portuguese composer Damiao de Gois. + Monday 28 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? YANA BORISOVA LEARNING FROM THE ‘ENEMY’

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes One of the latest trails to be followed within the area of ‘Historically Informed Performance’ is that of old recordings. Just like concerts of today, historical performances grant us a glimpse of the spirit of the age and of the performance conventions then prevalent. Yana Borisova reveals where this new path has led her. +

free admission

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Monday 28 August

22.30 hrs

DIALOGOS / KATARINA LIVLJANIĆ HERETICAL ANGELS: PRE-REFORMATION IN BOSNIA TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 65 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 41

The fascinating research carried out by Katarina Livljanić transforms each Dialogos concert into an exciting voyage of discovery. This production is based around the remarkable inscriptions on gravestones, relics of an early reformation movement in Bosnia. The programme combines melodies from the Bosnian Christian liturgy with the local folk music repertoire – the favourite field of activity of Joško Ćaleta and his Kantaduri. + Monday 28 August

from 9.00 hrs

FESTIVAL CENTRE TIVOLIVREDENBURG

free admission

Early Music Festival

Monday 28 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL / HERVÉ NIQUET BENEVOLO: ROMAN POLYPHONY IN TIMES OF COUNTER-REFORMATION 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 36,00 / € 32,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

70 minutes / no break

Order number 40

‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’ With this rallying cry the Catholic Church went to war against the Reformers in the mid-16th century. Whilst internally there was some fine-tuning of doctrine and liturgy going on, artists such as Bernini and Borromini were making the Counter-Reformation tangible. The musical counterpart of these showpieces was the euphonious polyphony of Palestrina and the Roman School. Of the post-Council of Trent composers Orazio Benevolo is without doubt one of the most sensational. His eight-choir Missa ‘Si Deus pro nobis’ is remarkably theatrical and is brimming with ingenious counterpoint. In a breathtaking evocation of a religious service in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, the musicians make this age-old repertoire sparkle as in days of old. +++ +

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

TUESDAY 29 AUGUST

15.00 Per-Sonat & Concerto Palatino Geertekerk

Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman’s Huis

9.30 Summer school: Thérèse Boshoven TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe various locations

10.00 Dance workshop UCK

10.30 City walk: Jacob van Eyck Janskerk

11.00 Fringe various locations c

Lorenzo Ghielmi TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fringe various locations

13.00 Benjamin Alard TivoliVredenburg c

A Guide to Early Music UCK

14.00 Fringe various locations

Camerata Trajectina (I) Leeuwenbergh

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

17.00 Capella de la Torre & Tiburtina Ensemble Nicolaïkerk c

Ensemble Polyharmonique Pieterskerk

18.30 What’s new? Martha Cook TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Capriccio Stravagante & Compagnia del Madrigale Geertekerk c

Doulce Mémoire Stadsschouwburg

22.30 Les Voix Humaines TivoliVredenburg

Early Music Festival

9.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS WITH MARCO MENCOBONI

Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00

Polman’s Huis Until 12.30 hrs In just a few years the harpsichord summer course held in the Tuscan town of Montisi has grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. This Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht for the second time, where an international selection of the finest young keyboard players will receive lessons from three master harpsichordists. You can attend these masterclasses as a listener. c

Order number 42

9.30 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

SUMMER SCHOOL: THÉRÈSE BOSHOVEN DANCING IN TIMES OF CALVINIST STRICTNESS TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: Dutch.

€ 5,00 Order number 43

Dance was a thorny subject in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Protestant ministers fulminated against dancing as a 'popish wickedness'. At the same time, diplomats such as Constantijn Huygens moved in circles where French fashion prevailed, and where dancing skills were a sign of a good upbringing. How was this quandary dealt with in the Netherlands? c

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

10.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

WORKSHOP RENAISSANCE DANCE II WITH RACHEL FARR

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten 120 minutes

€ 25,00 incl. lunch

In this workshop you’ll be donning your dancing shoes for one of the greatest international dance crazes of Luther’s time: the branle! Shakespeare and Louis XIV were great fans, and you too are sure to be won over by this rustic circle dance. You will also be taking a brief trip around Europe with the Deutscher Tanz – alias Allemande, Balletto tedesco or Almian: a wonderfully stylized little miracle of wordless rhetoric. c

Order number 44

11.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

LORENZO GHIELMI BETWEEN STRIFE AND RECONCILIATION

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 45

Our artist in residence Lorenzo Ghielmi’s third concert is a genuine organ recital. We’ll visit the Catholic bastions of popes, emperors and kings, where music was a symbol of power and a privilege, but we will also wander past Protestant churches where Luther’s melodies waft in our direction. A meditation by Pärt and a musical appeal for peace by Ghielmi himself round off this colourful organ kaleidoscope. c

Early Music Festival

13.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

BENJAMIN ALARD CLAVIER-ÜBUNG / EPISODE 4 (HARPSICHORD)

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: € 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 2: € 16,00 / € 14,00 / € 10,00

In the Clavier-Übung, in effect Bach’s musical self-portrait, he reveals to us his most brilliant and roguish side. The Partitas from Book I are notoriously difficult to play, but Benjamin Alard fearlessly picks up this gauntlet too, and plays them entirely by heart. As well as the 3rd and 4th Partitas, he will perform a duet from Book III: a masterful demonstration of two-voice counterpoint.

Order number 46

13.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

A GUIDE TO EARLY MUSIC WITH SASKIA TORNQVIST

Maximum 40 participants / Includes dinner at Restaurant Naast de Markt and voucher for a free program book / There are also Guides to Early Music on 28 and 31 August.

€ 115,00 / € 105,00 incl. diner Order number 47

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten dayfilling program Under the direction of musicologist Saskia Tornqvist, you set off on an exploration of the performance practice of earlymusic and you attend three concerts. 13.00 Introduction 15.00 Per-Sonat & Concerto Palatino 17.00 Capella de la Torre & Tiburtina 18.30 Dinner 20.00 Capriccio Stravagante c

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

15.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

PER-SONAT & CONCERTO PALATINO LUDWIG SENFL ON THE SUBJECT OF PENITENCE AND PUNISHMENT Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

‘Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Feuer springt’: with this slogan Johann Tetzel, would sell his goods to the customer. Luther sharply criticized such practices, and dissociated salvation of the soul from all forms of bargaining. The poignant voices of Per-Sonat and the powerful wind players of Concerto Palatino will perform penitential psalms and supplications by Ludwig Senfl, supplemented with music by Lassus, Josquin and Isaac.

Order number 48

15.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

CAMERATA TRAJECTINA (I) LUTHERISM IN THE NETHERLANDS

Leeuwenbergh 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 49

In contrast to Calvin, Luther felt that music had an important role to play. As early as the sixteenth century songs were being translated, and Dutch psalm texts were being set to melodies by Walter, Rhau, Resinarius and Bruck. Camerata Trajectina combine these European hits with Geuzenliederen (‘Beggars’ Songs’). This mixture is seasoned with songs about martyrs accused of ‘Lutherism’. c

Early Music Festival

16.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

CARILLION: MALGOSIA FIEBIG JONCKER JACOB VAN EYCK

Domtoren 45 minutes In the Utrecht of the early seventeenth century Jacob van Eyck was a musical hero. The blind recorder virtuoso and city carillonneur was one of the most important bell experts of his time: he managed to improve the method of tuning bells, Malgosia Fiebig honours her illustrious predecessor with a miscellany from his famous recorder collection Der Fluyten Lust-hof, (The Flute’s Garden of Delights) transformed into the sound of bells. c

free admission

17.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

CAPELLA DE LA TORRE & TIBURTINA TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA: VIDI SPECIOSAM Nicolaïkerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

A worthier ambassador for the Counter-Reformation than Tomás Luis de Victoria is scarcely imaginable: this priest and composer developed his career in Rome and Madrid, and thus was able to keep his finger on the pulse of the Council of Trent’s musical ideal. Capella de la Torre interweaves Victoria’s masses and motets into a service honouring.

2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Order number 50

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

17.00 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

ENSEMBLE POLYHARMONIQUE TOBIAS MICHAEL

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Theologist, philosopher, Thomas cantor and composer: Tobias Michael was a man of many talents. The collection of motets entitled Musicalische Seelenlust is one of his very finest works. The fresh Ensemble Polyharmonique have chosen five pieces of Tobias Michael and Andreas Hammerschmidt which are striking because of the way the German Bible text is given a madrigalesque treatment. c

Order number 51

18.30 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

WHAT’S NEW? MARTHA COOK DIE KUNST DER FUGE

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes In the middle of the eighteenth century Bach’s contemporaries were disputing, with bitter vehemence, rival claims about faith and reason. Did Die Kunst der Fuge, spring directly from this moral and philosophical dilemma? Martha Cook posits that Bach’s last fugue cycle was primarily designed to be an elaborate musical allegory based on Christ’s command: ‘No-one who does not carry his cross and come with me can be a disciple of mine.’

free admission

Early Music Festival

Tuesday 29 August

20.00 hrs

Geertekerk

CAPRICCIO STRAVAGANTE / SKIP SEMPÉ & COMPAGNIA DEL MADRIGALE / GIUSEPPE MALETTO PUBLIC SECRET: THE LONDON OF WILLIAM BYRD 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

Order number 52

90 minutes / intermission included

Wiens brood men eet, diens woord men spreekt (He who pays the piper calls the tune): this was the motto of many a composer in Reformation Europe. During the English Reformation many remained in the service of the same middle-class, noble, regal or religious employer, even when their religious convictions differed. This happened to the Catholic William Byrd, who in an Anglican England suddenly had to keep his head above water somehow. Out of necessity his Catholic oeuvre went ‘underground’ and was performed only in private – often even in secret. His instrumental consort music was however still played in public. Ironic, because this intimate chamber music was in fact intended for private performance. Masters of ceremony Skip Sempé and GiuSeppe Maletto direct the singers and consort players in a programme that contains, as well as Byrd’s Gradualia I, songs and instrumental works. The perfect counterpart to Byrd’s ‘music for cognoscenti’ is Richard Dering’s Cries of London, which transforms the sounds of the streets of London into music. c

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Early Music Festival

Tuesday 29 August

Stadsschouwburg, Douwe Egberts Zaal

20.00 hrs

DOULCE MÉMOIRE / RAISIN-DADRE DANCE PROGRAMME: MAGNIFICENCES À LA COUR DE FRANÇOIS I 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 36,00 / € 32,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

80 minutes / no break

Order number 53

Everything that Calvin found dreadful! Music and dance mean magic: that was something the French Renaissance king François I (14941547) also realized, and he managed to unite his people by means of military victories and artistic triumphs. Refined court spectacles – ‘Magnificences’ – acted as the display window of France’s musical opulence. In a colourful succession of scenes, a whole spectrum of entertainment would unfold like a fan, from short concerts of polyphony to allegorical ballets. La Doulce Mémoire’s ‘Magnificence’ also promises to be a breathtaking spectacle, with renaissance dance and beautiful costumes. c

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

22.30 hrs

Tuesday 29 August

LES VOIX HUMAINES & CHARLES DANIELS MUSIC BETWEEN THRONE AND DUCKING STOOL TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes Composers such as Christopher Simpson, John Jenkins and the Lawes brothers lived in a ‘seesaw’ country, where church leaders and rulers looked on music with favour one day, and the next made it an object of condemnation. Tenor Charles Daniels and the gambas of Les Voix Humaines go from heaven (the period of boom under Henry VIII and Charles I) to hell (the Cromwell era) and back again (Purcell). € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

Order number 54

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Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg ! Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman’s Huis

9.30 Summer school: Martin L. van Wijngaarden TivoliVredenburg ! STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

10.00 Dance workshop UCK

11.00 Fringe various locations ! Servir Antico TivoliVredenburg

14.30 Organ workshop for children TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Ordo Virtutum Willibrordkerk ! Camerata Trajectina (II) Leeuwenbergh 15.30 Fringe various locations

16.00 Bernard Winsemius Domtoren

17.00 Doulce Mémoire Stadsschouwburg ! Utopia & In Alto Pieterskerk

12.30 Fringe various locations

18.30 What’s new? Tamar Herstin-Grader TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Benjamin Alard TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

14.00 STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg ! Fringe various locations

23.00 Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

Early Music Festival

Wednesday 30 August

9.00 hrs

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS WITH MARCO MENCOBONI Polman’s Huis Until 12.30 hrs Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00 Order number 55

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: MARTIN L. VAN WIJNGAARDEN MARTIN LUTHER AND LUCAS CRANACH – IMAGINATORS OF THE REFORMATION TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: Dutch.

€ 5,00 Order number 56

VToday many messages are visualized. It was no different during the early years of the Reformation. Reformer Martin Luther and artist Lucas Cranach set the tone in this respect. In this lecture we will see how Cranach’s series of portraits of Luther were to play a leading role in representing the Reformational message. !

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Wednesday 30 August

10.00 hrs

WORKSHOP RENAISSANCE DANCE III WITH RACHEL FARR

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten 120 minutes

€ 25,00 incl. lunch Order number 57

Dancing like a monarch? Thanks to the choreografies of Cesari Negri, who is said to have danced with the dAughter of Emperor Ferdinand I in 1561, you can follow in the footsteps of the European royalty of Luther’s day. Occupying centre stage is the 'Balletto detto L’Alemana d’Amore', an elegant dance for couples, with an ingenious pattern of steps and leaps. Swing those hips and put your left foot forward: you’re good to go! ! Wednesday 30 August

11.00 hrs

SERVIR ANTICO / CATALINA VICENS UTOPIA, OR THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 58

‘The world is upside down!’ cried Robert Fayrfax following a nightmare. ‘Interesting’, thought Thomas More, who then translated Fayrfax’s account of the dream into Latin. The Tudor composer and the philosopher had even more in common: sharp social criticism and ambitious dreams for the future. Servir Antico gives us a musical account of their spiritual journey between dream, fantasy and raw reality. !

Early Music Festival

Wednesday 30 August

13.00 hrs

BENJAMIN ALARD CLAVIER-ÜBUNG / EPISODE 5 (ORGAN)

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 59

The Clavier-Übung III is the perfect counterpart to Luther’s Large and Small Catechisms. Here Bach compiled sections of the mass and chorales, in each case in two versions: a small-scale arrangement and a larger-scale setting. Today we will hear the large chorales: they demand virtuoso finger and pedal work and are suffused with symbolism. Benjamin Alard combines these pearls with the Fugue in E-flat major. ! Wednesday 30 August

14.30 hrs

ORGAN WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN WITH SIETZE DE VRIES

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

7,00 Order number 60

In the Large Hall of TivoliVredenburg is hidden away a special musical instrument. You can’t see it, but you can hear it. It’s actually a whole orchestra, with all kinds of mysterious organ pipes. Sietze de Vries is going to tell you and show you how the pipe organ works, and of course he’ll also let you hear how it sounds. And there will be organ elves fluttering around! What are those? To find out, you’ll have to come and look and listen! !

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Wednesday 30 August

15.00 hrs

ORDO VIRTUTUM / STEFAN MORENT FRAGMENTUM – IN SEARCH OF LOST SOUNDS Willibrordkerk 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 61

Behind the scenes of the Lutheran Reformation, Ordo Virtutum is waking up several fragments of age-old Roman Catholic monastic manuscripts, which were dismantled in Lutheran circles and re-used to strengthen the bindings of Protestant books. Literally tens of thousands of these fragments have been passed down. The German musicologist Stefan Morent brings these precious pieces of parchment back to life. ! Wednesday 30 August

15.00 hrs

CAMERATA TRAJECTINA (II) ANABAPTISTS IN THE NETHERLANDS

Leeuwenbergh 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 62

Representing the common people, the anabaptists were counterparts to the intellectual Lutherans. Their Dutch rhyming psalm settings – or ‘Souterliedekens’ – became, in the hands of Jacobus Clemens non Papa and Gherardus Mes, pearls of polyphony. Camerata has also selected martyrs’ songs which depict the persecution of the anabaptists. The archpriest Stalpart van der Wiele from Delft represents the Counter-Reformers. !

Early Music Festival

Wednesday 30 August

17.00 hrs

DOULCE MÉMOIRE / DENIS RAISIN DADRE DANCE PERFORMANCE: MAGNIFICENCES À LA COUR DE FRANÇOIS I Let op: ook zeer geschikt voor kinderen!

1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 2: € 36,00 / € 32,00 / € 10,00

Stadsschouwburg, Douwe Egberts Zaal 80 minutes / no break Everything that Calvin found dreadful! Music and dance mean magic: that was something the French Renaissance king François I (1494-1547) also realized. Refined court spectacles – ‘Magnificences’ – acted as the display window of France’s musical opulence. La Doulce Mémoire’s ‘Magnificence’ also promises to be a breathtaking musical spectacle. !

3: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00 Order number 63

Wednesday 30 August

17.00 hrs

UTOPIA & INALTO THE WITTENBERG NIGHTINGALE

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 64

If you think of Luther, you automatically think of chorales. The singers of Utopia and the cornetti and trombones of InAlto follow the birth of Protestant church melodies by way of classics from the Lutheran repertoire. The journey takes us from the final glory days of polyphony, via the pioneering chorale settings of Walter and Othmayr, to the motets of Hoyoul and Le Maistre. Indispensable in this musical portrait: work by Josquin, Luther’s favourite composer. !

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Wednesday 30 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? TAMAR HESTRIN-GRADER RECONSTRUCTING RUCKERS VIRGINALS

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Less is more? Not in the Baroque era! Even the musical instruments of the time used to wrap themselves in striking colours, finely decorated borders and imaginative paintings. A treat for the eye and the ear! In this session Tamar Hestrin Grader will introduce you to a unique reconstruction project, whereby she will examine the look, sound and feel of an original Ruckers virginal. !

free admission

Wednesday 30 August

23.00 hrs

VOX LUMINIS / LIONEL MEUNIER GROSSE FREUDE: A YEAR IN SONG TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 66

During this brilliant late-night session, an entire year will file past you in the form of festive highlights. After Michael Praetorius’ Christmas classic Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen the year proceeds through Passiontide, Ascension Day, Whitsun and Trinity. An exquisite company of prominent German composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries mark out the path. The voices of Vox Luminis take care of the rest. !

Early Music Festival

Wednesday 30 August

20.00 hrs

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

HESPÈRION XXI & LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA / JORDI SAVALL ODE TO HEINRICH ISAAC 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 36,00 / € 32,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

110 minutes / intermission included

Order number 65

For this Festival edition Jordi Savall has compiled a largescale homage to the Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac, who died exactly 500 years ago. The story told by Savall begins in 1450 and ends with Luther’s death: we are thus presented with a colourful historical and musical fresco, which leads to the Reformation. Little is known about Isaac’s education and his earliest activities. He was probably Franco-Flemish, and we first catch up with him in Florence, where he lived for some considerable time and became a family friend of the powerful House of Medici. Isaac would later visit the most important cities of the Holy Roman Empire, as part of the retinue of Emperor Maximiliaan I. The wanderlust of this adventurous composer is reflected in a rich and multifaceted oeuvre, from which an exquisite selection of motets, instrumental works and German songs has been made for our delectation. !!! !

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Musica Nova Willibrordkerk

Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman’s Huis

Camerata Trajectina Leeuwenbergh

9.30 Summer school: Ernst van den Hemel TivoliVredenburg

THURSDAY 31 AUGUST

15.30 Fringe various locations

STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

11.00 Fringe various locations

17.00 Gesualdo Consort Pieterskerk

Stéphanie Paulet & Elisabeth Geiger TivoliVredenburg

Academy of Ancient Music Geertekerk

12.30 Fringe various locations

18.30 What’s new? Maggie Urquhart TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Benjamin Alard Lutherse Kerk

A Guide to Early Music various locations

14.00 Fringe various locations

20.00 Nederlandse Bachvereniging TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Capella de la Torre TivoliVredenburg

Early Music Festival

Thursday 30 August

9.00 hrs

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS WITH MARCO MENCOBONI Polman’s Huis Until 12.30 hrs Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00

Order number 67

Thursday 30 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: ERNST VAN DEN HEMEL SOMBRE BEAUTY: ABOUT CALVINIST GUILT, CREATIVITY AND SIN Language: Dutch.

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes

€ 5,00 Order number 68

Dutch Calvinism is considered to be a cold force with the sinfulness of man at its core. But this image is too limited. Not only was Calvin known as 'the Prince of the Renaissance', but Calvinism itself can also provide an impetus to create new forms of beauty, from the whitewashed walls of the churches to the impressive rhetoric of the fire-and-brimstone sermon and the many Reformation songs.

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

Thursday 30 August

11.00 hrs

STÉPHANIE PAULET & ELISABETH GEIGER THE MINORITE CONVENT IN VIENNA TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

The new baroque organ in the Large Hall of TivoliVredenburg can be admired during the Festival. Today the French violinist Paulet will stand beside the organ. David against Goliath? Not at all: the combination of violin and large organ used to be common, and Baroque organs may be sonorous, but they do not relegate other instruments to the background. In a rhetorical tête-à-tête they juxtapose this music with works by Brade, Bruhns, Bach and Strungk.

Order number 69

13.00 hrs

Thursday 30 August

BENJAMIN ALARD CLAVIER-ÜBUNG / EPISODE 6 (HARPSICHORD)

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

1: € 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 2: € 16,00 / € 14,00 / € 10,00 Order number 70

‘Bach’s best suite’ – this is how the final Partita from Clavier-Übung I has been described. Like the other compositions from this first book, the work is designed as a suite consisting of various dances. In his sixth session of ‘keyboard practice’ Benjamin Alard pairs Partita 5 and 6 with the first duet from Clavier-Übung III: an ingenious ‘invertible’ fugue in which the parts pursue one another through a waterfall of scales!

Early Music Festival

100

Thursday 30 August

13.00 hrs

A GUIDE TO EARLY MUSIC WITH SASKIA TORNQVIST

Maximum 40 participants / Includes dinner at Restaurant Naast de Markt and voucher for a free program book / There are also Guides to Early Music on 28 and 29 August

€ 115,00 / € 105,00 incl. diner

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten dayfilling program Under the direction of musicologist Saskia Tornqvist, you set off on an exploration of the performance practice of early music. music and you attend three concerts. 13.00 Introduction 15.00 Musica Nova 17.00 Academy of Ancient Music 18.30 Dinner 20.00 Nederlandse Bachvereniging

Order number 71

Thursday 30 August

15.00 hrs

MUSICA NOVA / LUCIEN KANDEL FOUNDATIONS

Willibrordkerk 60 minutes In this programme Musica Nova investigates a crucial moment in the history of the Reformation: 31 October 1517 – the day on which Martin Luther published his manifesto on reforming the church. Following in the footprints of Johann Walter – one of Luther’s closest collaborators – this concert zooms in on the earliest musical foundations of Lutheran repertoire. € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 72

Sing, Fight, Weep, Pray / Music from the Reformations

101

Thursday 30 August

15.00 hrs

CAMERATA TRAJECTINA (III) CALVINISTS IN THE NETHERLANDS

Leeuwenbergh 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

In the 1660s Calvinism worked its way, via Antwerp and Ghent, into the Netherlands, where it soon became the faith associated with the revolt against Spain. In Reformed churches they sang in unison from Datheen’s translation of the Genevan Psalter, while Polyphonic settings by Le Jeune, Goudimel and Sweelinck were intended for domestic use. A song by Reynier Telle looks back on a hundred years of Reformation.

Order number 73

Thursday 30 August

16.00 hrs

CARILLON: MALGOSIA FIEBIG STORIES WITHOUT WORDS Domtoren 45 minutes For this recital Malgosia Fiebig turns the spotlight on Johann Kuhnau: lawyer, translator, writer, cantor of the Thomaskirche (just before Bach!) and composer of a particularly interesting oeuvre. Fiebig draws from his most original creation: the collection entitled Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien, in which legendary figures from the Old Testament are portrayed in keyboard sonatas. gratis toegang

Early Music Festival

102

Thursday 30 August

17.00 hrs

GESUALDO CONSORT / HARRY VAN DER KAMP A BOOK OF PSALMS BY REFORMIST COMPOSERS Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

The new Calvinist psalm melodies inspired many a composer to write polyphonic settings. Sweelinck, by birth a Catholic, states that he finds the Calvinist melodies ideal material on which to create variations. The Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam provides an impression of the path trodden by composers such as Goudimel, de L’estocart, Lejeune and Sweelinck in order to achieve an oeuvre of evocative psalms.

Order number 74

Thursday 30 August

17.00 hrs

ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC / RICHARD EGARR WILLIAM LAWES, THE ICONOCLAST Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 75

Fresh and vigorous, dauntless and eager, humorous and unconventional: these are but a few of the terms used to characterize Richard Egarr. In this concert he is placing the laurels on the head of fellow daredevil William Lawes, musician in the England of Charles I. Lawes was blessed with an astounding versatility. The overwhelming proof of this is provided by this selection of anthems and delightfully wilful Fantasy Suites.

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Thursday 30 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? MAGGIE URQUHART THE VIOLONE AS A CONTINUO INSTRUMENT IN BACH'S MUSIC

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes The use of 16-foot and 8-foot violones in Bach’s music remains a controversial subject. It is not certain which types of violones were used or how they were used. Twenty-eight years ago, in his pioneering book ‘Bach’s Continuo Group’, Laurence Dreyfus proposed that three types of violone were used. In her doctorate Urquhart investigated how violones in Bach’s music might have sounded, and here she shares that information with us.

free admission

+ Thursday 30 August

22.30 hrs

CAPELLA DE LA TORRE / KATHARINA BÄUML HELP… I’M GOING TO BE A MONK! TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 77

When the young Luther was taken by surprise by a tremendous thunderstorm, his invocation of St Anne and his promise to become a monk caused the sky to clear immediately... Artist in residence Katharina Bäuml has compiled a programme that connects both these elements: the social environment of the youthful Luther and German Renaissance music connected to St Anne. With brilliant pommers and rousing percussion.

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

NEDERLANDSE BACH VERENIGING / JOS VAN VELDHOVEN DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE, DER GROSSE 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 36,00 / € 32,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

95 minutes / intermission included

Order number 76

A journey on foot of 400 km - that is what Bach was willing to do to be in Lübeck to attend the Abendmusiken (Evening Music) of the legendary Dietrich Buxtehude. Buxtehude’s contemporaries idolized him, not only as an organist but also as a composer. The Nederlandse Bachvereniging is going to introduce you to some of his most beautiful and largescale cantatas. In Frohlocket mit Händen alle Völker an impressive array of musicians launches an enthusiastic appeal for peace. By contrast, Herzlich lieb hab’ ich Dich, o Herr is a sumptuous chorale setting with mysterious tremolo, and Nimm von uns Herr is a clever sequence of refrains with a memorable main melody. And then there’s also that irresistible ostinato in Jesu, meines Lebens Leben: guaranteed to become earworm of the day! The crowning glory of the programme will be the intimate Muss der Tod: a lamentation on the death of Buxtehude’s father, from whom he had inherited the musical gene. The choir and orchestra of the Nederlandse Bachvereniging will use TivoliVredenburg’s new large Baroque organ in the role of continuo instrument.

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FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER

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9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Le Miroir de Musique Pieterskerk

Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman’s Huis

150 Psalms IV: The Tallis Scholars TivoliVredenburg

9.30 Summer school: Twan Geurts TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe various locations

16.00 Jasper Stam Domtoren

STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

% 150 Psalms I: Nederlands Kamerkoor TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Gli Angeli Genève Jacobikerk

% 11.00 Fringe various locations

150 Psalms V: Det Norske Solistkor TivoliVredenburg

% Arjen Verhage Lutherse Kerk

% 150 Psalms II: The Choir of Trinity Wall Street TivoliVredenburg 12.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg 12.30 Fringe various locations 13.00 Pierre Hantaï TivoliVredenburg

% 150 Psalms III: Det Norske Solistkor TivoliVredenburg 14.00 Fringe various locations

18.30 What’s new? Giovanni Paolo di Stefano TivoliVredenburg 19.30 150 Psalms: Lecture Mystery guest TivoliVredenburg 20.00 Capella de la Torre Geertekerk 20.30 150 Psalms VI: The Tallis Scholars TivoliVredenburg 22.30 Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

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Friday 1 September

9.00 hrs

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS WITH RICHARD EGARR Polman’s Huis Until 12.30 hrs Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00

Order number 78

Friday 1 September

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: TWAN GEURTS POPE ADRIAN OF UTRECHT

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes Language: Dutch.

Could Adrian VI have prevented the Reformation if he had lived longer? It is improbable. That is the conclusion of the recent biography of our only Dutch pope, Adrian of Utrecht (1495-1523). Author Twan Geurts explains that the attempts to reform the Vatican did not stop Luther from tearing himself loose from the Catholic Church. %

€ 5,00 Order number 79

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Friday 1 September

9.30 hrs

150 PSALMS I: NEDERLANDS KAMERKOOR A MIRROR FOR SOCIETY

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

For the opening concert of the Psalms marathon, the Nederlands Kamerkoor is doing the honours. With music by composers including Tallis, Monteverdi, Bach and Hovhaness, the singers hold a mirror up to our face: how to become a happy person? Can stories show us the way to do so? One guaranteed highlight is Heinrich Schütz’s double choir setting of Psalm 119, which Luther considered to be ‘the ABC of the Bible’.

Order number 80

Friday 1 September

11.00 hrs

ARJEN VERHAGE VALLET & VAN DEN HOVE

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: € 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Dutch music of the 17th century is lutenist Arjen Verhage’s favourite domain. In this programme he tells the intriguing story of Nicolas Vallet and Joachim van den Hove, two Protestant lute virtuosi who fled to the Netherlands, where they ushered in the Golden Age of lute playing. Their decisive influence is illustrated by music from the Schele manuscript and the Herold Lute Book.

2: € 16,00 / € 14,00 / € 10,00

Order number 81

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Friday 1 September

11.00 hrs

150 PSALMS II: THE CHOIR OF TRINITY WALL STREET LEADERSHIP

Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes Did you know that the name which appears most often in the Bible is ‘David’? Innumerable episodes recount his experiences as king, warrior, hero, prophet, musician and…author of psalms. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street present psalms about strong leadership. Rendering justice, helping and protecting the poor, all of this can be heard in psalms by Thomas Arne, Michael Praetorius, Giaches de Wert, William Boyce and James MacMillan.

Order number 82

Friday 1 September

12.00 hrs

EARLY MUSIC EXHIBITION TIVOLIVREDENBURG

until 18.00 hrs Do majestic theorbos and colourfully painted harpsichords make your music addict’s heart beat faster? Do your fingers itch to learn to strum a Renaissance dance yourself? Does the sight of polyphonic partbooks awaken the codicologist in you? Then you should certainly visit the Early Music Market: a unique opportunity to examine instruments close up and to touch them, or to fatten up your music library. free admission

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Friday 1 September

13.00 hrs

PIERRE HANTAÏ VIRGINALISTS WITH A STORY

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes Under the Tudors and Stuarts keyboard music in England flourished. But virginalists such as John Bull, William Byrd and Francis Tregian couldn’t escape the impact of changing regimes and religious disputes: ‘recusant’ Tregian was imprisoned, Byrd concealed his Catholicism and Bull fled to Antwerp… In Pierre Hantaï the artistry of these keyboard conjurors has found the ideal ambassador. € 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Order number 83

Friday 1 September

13.00 hrs

150 PSALMS III: DET NORSKE SOLISTKOR FAITH

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 84

Det Norske Solistkor from Oslo – the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year – sings about integrity, sympathy, justice and trust – which are also the themes of this selection of psalms. The result is an unparalleled journey in time during which we come across Dowland, Gabrieli, Mozart, Brahms and Elgar. At journey’s end we are treated to a masterful vocal concerto by Bach’s contemporary Johann Pachelbel. %

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Friday 1 September

15.00 hrs

MIROIR DE MUSIQUE / BAPTISTE ROMAIN THOMAS A KEMPIS AND DEVOTIO MODERNA Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

The lay fraternities of the fourteenth century are sometimes called the precursors of the Reformation movement. Just like Luther, Modern Devotion and the Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life aspired after a spirituality rooted in meditation and study, with charity as its guiding principle. Le Miroir de Musique a wide-ranging concert programme which reflects the liturgical musical practice of these movements. %

Order number 85

Friday 1 September

15.00 hrs

150 PSALMS IV: NEDERLANDS KAMERKOOR / PETER DIJKSTRA SUFFERING

Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 86

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes Music concerning suffering, death, hope and redemption has existed throughout the ages: from renaissance lamentations, baroque funeral cantatas and romantic requiems to spirituals, gospel songs and protest songs from the ‘60s. The Nederlands Kamerkoor has compiled psalms on this theme made up of works by Adrian Willaert, Cornelis Boscoop, Constantijn Huygens, Costanzo Porta and Felix Mendelssohn. %

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Friday 1 September

17.00 hrs

GLI ANGELI GENÈVE / STEPHAN MACLEOD JOHANN CHRISTOPH: THE PROFOUND BACH Jacobikerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Bach and sons: the most famous dynasty in the history of music! But even before J.S. came along, the family had already produced a musical hero: Johann Christoph. His oeuvre is a major discovery: what finesse, what an imagination and what a phenomenal mastery of style! Gli Angeli Genève combine two lamentos with two church dialogues, concluding with the breathtaking Meine Freundin, du bist schön.

Order number 87

Friday 1 September

17.00 hrs

150 PSALMS V: DET NORSKE SOLISTKOR ON THE RUN

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes A concert series devoted to 1,000 years of choral music simply had to include the ‘Pomeranian Lassus’, as Philipp Dulichius came to be known: a composer who produced an impressive oeuvre in opulent Renaissance style. Alongside songs by, among others, John Blow, Luca Marenzio and Zad Moultaka Dulichius’ psalm setting treats the highly topical themes of flight and loneliness. € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 88

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Geertekerk

20.00 hrs

CAPELLA DE LA TORRE / KATHARINA BÄUML LUTHER'S MARRIAGE 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

Order number 90

90 minutes / intermission included

Music soothes the soul, but so does love: Luther experienced that personally when he met the former Cistercian nun Katharina von Bora. The couple married in 1525, very probably accompanied by the shawms, pommers, dulcians and trombones of the Wittenberg town band. With a selection of sacred and secular music from the sixteenth century, the wind players of Capella de la Torre are throwing a suitable party. %%% %

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Friday 1 September

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? GIOVANNI PAOLO DI STEFANO INSTRUMENTS WITHOUT SOUND

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

In the early 1900s harpsichord pioneer Wanda Landowska found inspiration in Parisian museums by observing the historic harpsichords and other early instruments, but complained about the fact that the instruments remained silent. Giovanni Paolo di Stefano, curator of the instrument collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, presents his plans for reversing this trend.

% free admission

Friday 1 September

19.30 hrs

150 PSALMS: LECTURE MYSTERY GUEST

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 45 minutes In cooperation with De Balie.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 89

In the course of two days of the Early Music Festival all 150 Psalms will be performed, and internationally renowned speakers will tackle topics raised by the Psalms. We welcome Michael Ignatieff on Saturday, 2 September, and are also presenting a lecture on Friday, 1 September. Which renowned speaker will appear remains a surprise for the time being…

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Friday 1 September

20.30 hrs

150 PSALMS VI: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS GRATITUDE

Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes 'He who sings prays twice’, as St Augustine is reputed to have said. It is no wonder that many psalms are filled with jubilation and exultation. The Tallis Scholars sing in praise of gratitude in psalm settings by Gibbons, Victoria, Rossi and Byrd. An anthem by JoSeph Haydn, a Hebrew song after Franz Schubert and a brand-new commissioned work make the celebration complete.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

Order number 91

Friday 1 September

22.30 hrs

VOX LUMINIS / LIONEL MEUNIER LUTHER’S LEGACY

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 92

When he was dying Luther must have realized that his reforms had altered the world once and for all. But he can’t possibly have known just how huge his impact on the history of music would turn out to be. Tonight, five composers who were born exactly a century after Luther’s death tonight represent his musical legacy. Vox Luminis have chosen cantatas by Buxtehude, Schelle, Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach and Johann Michael Bach.

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SATURDAY 2 SEPTEMBER

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg k Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Huis 9.30 hrs Summer school: Jed Wentz TivoliVredenburg k 150 Psalms VII: The Choir of Trinity Wall Street TivoliVredenburg 10.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg k Singing workshop Lionel Meunier UCK 10.15 Have a peek at the carillon Domtoren 11.00 Fringe various locations k Philippe Pierlot TivoliVredenburg k 150 Psalms VIII: The Tallis Scholars TivoliVredenburg k Gideon Bodden Domtoren 12.30 Fringe various locations 13.00 Il Caravaggio Geertekerk k 150 Psalms IX: Det Norske Solistkor TivoliVredenburg

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14.00 Fringe various locations 15.00 Manfredo Kraemer TivoliVredenburg k 150 Psalms X: The Tallis Scholars TivoliVredenburg 15.30 Fringe various locations 17.00 Ricercar Consort Catharinakathedraal k 150 Psalms XI: The Tallis Scholars TivoliVredenburg 18.30 Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new? Geoffrey Burgess TivoliVredenburg 19.30 150 Psalms: Lecture Michael Ignatieff TivoliVredenburg 20.00 Il Pomo d'Oro / Francesco Corti Geertekerk 20.30 150 Psalms XII: Nederlands Kamerkoor TivolIVredenburg 22.30 Benjamin Alard TivoliVredenburg 24.00 Rachel Brown TivoliVredenburg

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Saturday 2 September

from 9.00 hrs

FESTIVAL CENTRE TIVOLIVREDENBURG

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Saturday 2 September

9.00 hrs

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI MASTERCLASS KLAVECIMBEL WITH RICHARD EGARR

Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00 Order number 93

Polman’s Huis until 12.30 hrs In just a few years the harpsichord summer course held in the Tuscan town of Montisi has grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. This Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht for the second time, where an international selection of the finest young keyboard players will receive lessons from three master harpsichordists. You can attend these masterclasses as a listener.

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Saturday 2 September

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: JED WENTZ EARLY MUSIC AS REFORMATION

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes At the beginning of the twentieth century a kind of war broke out among the musicians and musicologists of the Neue Bachgesellschaft – between the members driven by religion and those driven by aesthetics. In this lecture Jed Wentz investigates the roots of the Dutch early music tradition and how this was inspired by the situation in Germany.

€ 5,00 Order number 94

Saturday 2 September

9.30 hrs

150 PSALMS VII: THE CHOIR OF TRINITY WALL STREET JUSTICE TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 95

‘The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just.’ The powerful verses of Psalm 37 inspired Anton Bruckner to create one of his most original compositions. The call for justice also resounds in the music of Hildegard von Bingen, Crequillon, Gombert, Lalande – and in the work by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, who was commissioned by the Festival to set Psalm 101 to music.

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Saturday 2 September

10.00 hrs

EARLY MUSIC EXHIBITION TIVOLIVREDENBURG

until 18.00 hrs Do majestic theorbos and colourfully painted harpsichords make your music addictâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart beat faster? Do your fingers itch to learn to strum a Renaissance dance yourself? Does the sight of polyphonic partbooks awaken the codicologist in you? Then you should certainly visit the Early Music Market: a unique opportunity to examine instruments close up and to touch them, or to fatten up your music library.

free admission

Saturday 2 September

10.00 hrs

SINGING WORKSHOP WITH LIONEL MEUNIER

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten presentation at 14:00 sign up via oudemuziek.nl/zangworkshop

â&#x201A;Ź 25,00 incl. lunch aanmelden via oudemuziek.nl/zangworkshop

Een zangworkshop volgen onder leiding van niemand minder dan Lionel Meunier, de artistiek leider van Vox Luminis: dit festival krijgt u die kans! Meuniers gepassioneerde maar doordachte aanpak van het vocaal repertoire van de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw, samen WITH een veeleisend maar respectvol begrip voor de leden van het ensemble, laat geen muziekliefhebber ongevoelig.

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Saturday 2 September

11.00 hrs

PHILIPPE PIERLOT TELEMANN’S FANTASIAS FOR GAMBA SOLO

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

If a piece of classical music goes missing, it’s a shame. If that music is by Telemann, it’s heartbreaking! And if it turns out to have been unique among his compositions, it’s disastrous... No wonder the musical world greeted the rediscovery of Telemann’s Fantasias for viola da gamba solo with a huge round of applause. With these masterpieces you are guaranteed ingenious counterpoint, daredevil passage work and melodious gallantry.

Order number 98

Saturday 2 September

11.00 hrs

150 PSALMS VIII: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS SECURITY

Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes Tiburtio Massaino was a musician at the court of Archbishop von Raitenau when he was convicted of homosexuality. Against that background, the psalm setting Conserva me, domine, in which two choral groups beg for protection, could well be a page from his musical journal. The works by Goudimel, Gesualdo and Nielsen also convey a craving for safety.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 99

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Saturday 2 September

13.00 hrs

IL CARAVAGGIO TELEMANN’S HARMONISCHE GOTTESDIENST

Soloist: Anna Reinhold

Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

Named after the father of Italian Baroque painting, the young French Ensemble Il Caravaggio stands for musical performances as full of light and life. The music of anniversary boy Telemann is their dream playground, with virtuoso quartets and solo cantatas – including Glaubet, hoffet, leidet, duldet – which unfold as an intimate but expressive dialogue with God.

2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

Order number 100

Saturday 2 September

13.00 hrs

150 PSALMS IX: DET NORSKE SOLISTKOR PATH OF LIFE

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 101

Faith gets people moving – one undertakes a pilgrimage, another is forced to flee... Songs from different religious traditions flank each other in this programme of psalms by composers including John Tavener, Cristóbal de Morales, Giles Farnaby, Luther and Arvo Pärt. The commissioned work by the young Estonian Evelin Seppar is right up Det Norske Solistkor’s street: the ensemble has already notched up over two hundred premières.

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Saturday 2 September

15.00 hrs

MANFREDO KRAEMER TELEMANN’S FANTASIAS FOR SOLO VIOLIN

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes Together with the solo concerts of Rachel Brown, Philippe Pierlot and Francesco Corti, this violin recital creates an exquisite quadruple. And a fine homage to G.Ph. Telemann – the Baroque master who died 250 years ago. The genius of the man from Magdeburg leaps off every page: the Fantasias are little miracles of variation and contrast, rhetoric and melodic ingenuity.

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 102

Saturday 2 September

15.00 hrs

150 PSALMS X: THE CHOIR OF TRINITY WALL STREET POWERLESSNESS AND REDEMPTION Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes The Trinity Wall Street Choir is bringing along music by Charles Ives, one of America’s most selfwilled composers. His psalms surprise you with their medieval stratification and Renaissance counterpoint. Like the works of Josquin, Lassus, Rameau and Britten, Ives’ Psalm 54 is a poignant cry for protection and redemption.

k € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 103

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Saturday 2 September

17.00 hrs

RICERCAR CONSORT / PHILIPPE PIERLOT TELEMANN: DU ABER DANIEL

Soloists: Maria Keohane, soprano Pascal Bertin, contratenor Jeffrey Thompson, tenor

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00

Catharinakathedraal 60 minutes Among the compositions of the famously productive Georg Philipp Telemann are twenty annual cantata cycles. Philippe Pierlot submitted to the abundance of choice and chose several of Telemann’s finest works: the early work Trauer Actus, the psalm composition Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht and the brilliantly structured funeral cantata Du aber Daniel, gehe hin, in which the soprano, oboe and gambas pinch the leading roles.

Order number 104

Saturday 2 September

17.00 hrs

150 PSALMS XI: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS POWER AND OPPRESSION

Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes When we put our soul on the scale, which way does it tip? Does self-assurance lead to arrogance or is it an efficient weapon in the fight against evil? The voices of the The Tallis Scholars shed light on the spiritual struggle of Andrea Gabrieli, Sweelinck, Vecchi, Scheidt, Handel and Gavin Bryars, among others.

k € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 105

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Saturday 2 September

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? GEOFFREY BURGESS RADICAL PIONEERS: FRANS BRÜGGEN & BRUCE HAYNES TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

Oboist, organologist and musicologist Geoffrey Burgess brings two icons of early music into the limelight: recorder legend and conductor Frans Brüggen and his pupil Bruce Haynes, author of the controversial book The End of Early Music. How did a child of the early music movement ultimately become one of its most illustrious critics? A portrait of a fascinating ideological duel.

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20.00 hrs

Geertekerk

IL POMO D’ORO / FRANCESCO CORTI TELEMANN: FROM ORPHEUS TO INO 1: € 38,00 / € 34,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 34,00 / € 30,00 / € 10,00

Order number 107

90 minutes / intermission included

Telemann is said to have composed fifty operas. Traces of twenty-nine can be found in documents and personal testimony. Only nine works have stood the test of time intact – a blistering outcome, given that Telemann is considered the most important composer of German opera of the eighteenth century. Soloist: Inga Kalna, soprano

In addition, the surviving works give you a taste for more. Orpheus, for example: a unique crossover between tragédie lyrique and opera seria. The arias juggle with different languages and styles to match them – typical of Telemann the chameleon. In a selection of these songs the Latvian soprano Inga Kalna appears as Orasia, queen of Thracia, who thanks to her passionate but irresponsible love for Orpheus ends up in a downward spiral of revenge. The interval is followed by the cantata Ino, in which Pomo d’Oro gives us a taste of Telemann at work at the age of 84: a successful mix of the Baroque and the galant style, with which he shows that he has always remained young at heart.

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Saturday 2 September

19.30 hrs

150 PSALMS: LECTURE MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

In cooperation with De Balie.

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 45 minutes The Canadian philosopher, historian, writer, journalist and former politician Michael Ignatieff is a world-famous thinker in the field of human rights, international conflicts and ethics. Given that background, this lecture about the 150 Psalms promises to be extraordinarily fascinating. Ignatieff will be focusing on age-old themes such as leadership, power, repression and moral choices.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 106

Saturday 2 September

20.30 hrs

150 PSALMS XII: NEDERLANDS KAMERKOOR CELEBRATION

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 60 minutes Applause and jubilation: these are the ingredients of this ode to life with which the Nederlands Kamerkoor rounds off the psalm cycle. Works by Hammerschmidt, Banchieri and Cozzolani will be heard, and the keystone will be laid by Jacobus Handl. Two eight-part choral groups provide fireworks and a ‘Laudate’ that just keeps on reverberating! € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 108

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Saturday 2 September

22.30 hrs

BENJAMIN ALARD CLAVIER-ÜBUNG / EPISODE 7 (GOLDBERG VARIATIONS) TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

With the neue Clavierübung Benjamin Alard places the crown on the whole work. The fourth and final part of Bach’s magnum opus contains the revolutionary Goldberg Variations: a tribute to senior masters of the art of variation – Pachelbel, Böhm and Buxtehude – which raises the genre to a completely new level. The thirty ‘alterations’ of the same ‘aria’ represent a stiff challenge for the performer.

Order number 109

Saturday 2 September

24.00 hrs

RACHEL BROWN TELEMANN SOLOS: FANTASIAS FOR FLUTE

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes G.Ph.Telemann’s twelve Fantasias for flute are examples of finesse, variation, contrast and inventiveness. Each Fantasia was allotted a different key, and each is thus steeped in its own atmosphere. Together these Fantasias provide the definitive proof that wind instruments can also shine in a solo role – something that the British flautist Rachel Brown demonstrates with verve. € 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 110

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9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Compagnie Musicale Domkerk

Piccola Accademia di Montisi Polman’s Huis

L’Armonia Sonora Geertekerk

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10.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe various locations

Erik Bosgraaf & Sinkovsky Trio TivoliVredenburg

12.00 Uitfeest opening concert TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Francesco Corti Leeuwenbergh

14.00 Fringe various locations

15.30 Fringe various locations

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

17.00 Cantus Thuringia Pieterskerk

Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

18.30 What’s new? João Luís Paixão TivoliVredenburg

20.00 L’Arpeggiata & Philippe Jaroussky TivoliVredenburg

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Sunday 3 September

9.00 hrs

PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DI MONTISI HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS WITH RICHARD EGARR Polman’s Huis Also available as a passepartout, see order form.

€ 12,00

Until 12.30 hrs In just a few years the harpsichord summer course held in the Tuscan town of Montisi has grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. This Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht for the second time, where an international selection of the finest young keyboard players will receive lessons from three master harpsichordists. You can attend these masterclasses as a listener.

Order number 111

Sunday 3 September

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: RACHEL BROWN ADVENTURES WITH TELEMANN TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: Dutch.

Few musicians have in recent years occupied themselves so intensively with Georg Philipp Telemann as Rachel Brown. From solo concertos to fantasias, from sonatas to double concertos – they have all received her full attention. A report from the inside.

€ 5,00 Order number 112

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Sunday 3 September

10.00 hrs

EARLY MUSIC EXHIBITION TIVOLIVREDENBURG

until 17.00 hrs Do majestic theorbos and colourfully painted harpsichords make your music addict’s heart beat faster? Do your fingers itch to learn to strum a Renaissance dance yourself? Does the sight of polyphonic partbooks awaken the codicologist in you? Then you should certainly visit the Early Music Market: a unique opportunity to examine instruments close up and to touch them, or to fatten up your music library.

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Sunday 3 September

11.00 hrs

ERIK BOSGRAAF, DMITRY SINKOVSKY & CO TRIO À LA TELEMANN

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 113

UIt is difficult to choose from Telemann’s 130 masterly trios… Recorder player Erik Bosgraaf and violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky play the trio sonatas written for the combination of their instruments. The scale first tips towards exuberant High Baroque, then back to a coquettish galant style. Recorder and violin cross swords without the aid of basso continuo in a charming duet from Der getreue Music-Meister.

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12.00 hrs

UITFEEST OPENING CONCERT WITH SIETZE DE VRIES

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 30 minutes How does an organ work, what sort of sounds does it produce, and what does an organist actually do? In this concert Sietze de Vries guides his audience through the amazing world of registers, manuals, prestants, flutes, reed stops and other splendid things. Improvisations, help the audience gain an impression of TivoliVredenburg’s new Baroque organ, which may admittedly be almost invisible, but is definitely clearly audible!

free admission

Sunday 3 September

13.00 hrs

FRANCESCO CORTI TELEMANN SOLOS FOR HARPSICHORD

Leeuwenbergh 60 minutes

€ 18,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 114

After solos for violin, gamba and traverso, it’s now the harpsichord’s turn. Francesco Corti supplements Telemann’s somewhat underrated keyboard music with works by Kuhnau, with whom Telemann was at loggerheads in Leipzig. By engaging students for performances, Telemann had put a spoke in Kuhnau’s wheel: this colleague of his, suddenly found himself without any musicians. Corti rounds off this recital with works by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.

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Sunday 3 September

15.00 hrs

COMPAGNIE MUSICALE / JOSEP CABRÉ TOMÁS LUIS DA VICTORIA’S MIRACLE Domkerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00

‘My swan song’ was how Victoria described his Officium Defunctorum. Victoria’s Office of the Dead was not only his last composition, but it also brought an era to an end. Before the Baroque era begins, this work briefly gives the ‘stile antico’ of the High Renaissance a new, modern look: tradition and innovation go hand in hand. Compagnie Musicale will provide a robustly resonating performance of this Counter-Reformation cathedral of sound.

Order number 115

Sunday 3 September

15.00 hrs

L’ARMONIA SONORA & TRINITY BOYS CHOIR / MIENEKE VAN DER VELDEN A NEW STATE RELIGION Geertekerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 116

England was also plagued by religious strife in the sixteenth century: following the Pope’s refusal to annul Henry VIII’s first marriage, the king established the Anglican Church – a new state religion with its own liturgy, in English. Piecing together the finest anthems and consort songs by Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and William Byrd, L’Armonia Sonora enables us to sample early Anglican music.

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16.00 hrs

CARILLON: MALGOSIA FIEBIG BUXTEHUDE, SWEELINCK AND TELEMANN Domtoren 45 minutes Saving the best for last: might that have been Malgosia Fiebig’s motto? The poster for her final concert does lead us to believe that. She opens with the 32 variations on La Capricciosa by Buxtehude and Sweelinck’s masterly variations on Mein junges Leben hat ein End. To conclude, anniversary boy Telemann takes a curtain call with the Overture to his Wassermusik (Water Music): an ode to Hamburg and the Elbe.

free admission

Sunday 3 September

17.00 hrs

CANTUS THURINGIA REFORMATION IN THÜRINGEN

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

1: € 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 2: € 19,00 / € 16,00 / € 10,00 Order number 117

With repertoire from ‘Lutherland’ (Thüringen), Cantus Thuringia is – even on Dutch soil – playing a home game. 150 years of music from the German federal state includes some musical milestones from Luther’s time: from a mass by Adam Rener, who had imported polyphony into Germany and immigrated to Liège, to chorale settings by Johann Walter, and to motets by Melchior Franck and Heinrich Schütz.

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Sunday 3 September

17.00 hrs

GLI ANGELI GENÈVE / STEPHAN MACLEOD SCHÜTZ’S SACRED CHORAL MUSIC TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes Heinrich Schütz was a key figure between the German Renaissance and the Baroque of Bach’s time. From Schütz’s extensive oeuvre, baritone Stephan MacLeod has chosen a collection of motets that represents the pinnacle of the man’s achievements: Geistliche Chor-Musik – an ode to Franco-Flemish polyphony, veined with Early Baroque, Italianizing elements.

€ 22,00 / € 19,00 / € 10,00 Order number 118

Sunday 3 September

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? JOÃO LUÍS PAIXÃO FROM SPEECH TO SINGING

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes The 18th-century star singers were also the greatest actors of their time: with the perfect combination of declamation, singing, appearance and gestures, they conquered the hearts of the audience and inspired playwrights and composers. In this lecture performance, João Luís Paixão and two musicians explore the border between speaking and singing.

free admission

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20.00 hrs

L’ARPEGGIATA / CHRISTINA PLUHAR PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY AND CÉLINE SCHEEN KOMM, SÜSSER TOD 1: € 48,00 / € 44,00 / € 10,00 - 2: € 46,00 / € 42,00 / € 10,00 - 3: € 44,00 / € 40,00 / € 10,00

90 minutes / no break

Order number 119

During this Festival edition Christina Pluhar and the highly praised L’Arpeggiata team up with a couple from vocal royalty: soprano Nuria Rial and countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. For the first time the ensemble is focusing on repertoire from Protestant Germany, which enters into dialogue with Italian Counter-Reformation music. The result? An exciting journey of discovery that leads from German songs of Schütz and Bach to motets of Monteverdi, Cazzati and Sances. Halfway through we can relax and enjoy J.J. Fux’s exotic turqueries. The programme bears the title ‘Komm, süßer Tod’, after the song of the same name by Bach: a beautiful gem in which the prospect of a heavely hereafter brings peace and rest. With a hundred years of music in one stunning programme, this exquisite collective promises to demonstrate precisely why they are so admired, by astonishing us with the best the Baroque era has to offer.

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COLOFON Brochure Festival Oude Muziek 2017 Editors Iris van Korven, Sofie Taes, Xavier Vandamme, Thiemo Wind, Miel Slager, Juliëtte Dufornee, Jed Wentz Concept design & design cover Doretta Rinaldi Layout Esther de Bruijn Image cover Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger mages inside Becca Hirsbrunner, Marieke Wijntjes, Remke Spijkers, Foppe Schut, Anna van Kooij, Bruce Kennedy, Total Identity, Sarah Wijzenbeek, Susanne Vermeulen, Melanie Dulat, Thorsten Eichhorst, Sylvain Gripoix, Laurent Geneix, Emily Ding, Sjaak Verboom, C. Doutre, Allard Willemse, Koen Broos, Jean-Baptiste Millot, Charles Plumey, Ola Renska, Alberto Molina, La Morra, Stefan Schweiger, Christoph Thurnherr, Johanne Mercier, Sergio Caminata, Semana de Música Religiosa, Kamchàtka, Pierre Combier, Wouter Jansen, Martina Simkovicova, Yat Ho Tsang, Philippe Matsas, Christian Palm, Dan Himbrechts, Valentin Behringer, Thomas Guillin, Ludo Spaepen, Festival de Saintes, Sietze de Vries, Van Vulpen orgelbouwers and all ensembles. Publication date 12 May 2017, changes reserved The 36th Early Music Festival is a production of the Early Music Organisation and is made possible with support of Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Provincie Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht (Culturele Zaken), Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek, Fonds 21, VSBfonds, Turing Foundation, kfHein Fonds, Institut français, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, De Oude Franz Jansen, Mr. August Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, Carel Nengerman Fonds. IIn coproduction with TivoliVredenburg, AVROTROS, Radio 4, Ozango, MAfestival, Piccola Accademia di Montisi, Stichting Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk, Concertzender, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht, Stingray Brava, Orgel Comité Muziekcentrum Utrecht, Culturele Zondagen, Nederlands Kamerkoor, De Balie, Creative Court, Total Identity, Hollandse Hoogte, Utrechts Klokkenluiders Gilde, Never Made Film Productions, Museum Catharijneconvent, Uitfeest en Utrecht Marketing. Many thanks to Frans Vreeke, Margriet van Kraats, Peter Tra, Cato Ootes, Jorunn Labordus en alle medewerkers TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht Marketing, Hans Kuperus, Malgosia Fiebig, Dick Hoek, Henk Klop klavecimbels & orgels, Jan Kalsbeek klavecimbels, Bruce Kennedy & Anna-Riikka Santapukki, Leo Folgering, Tido Visser, Leo Samama, Museum Catharijneconvent, Lucia Claus, Nander Cirkel, Harm Witteveen, Renée Vulto, Robin Bekker, Marco Mencoboni, Thiemo Wind, administrators, costers and employees of the mentioned institutions and the festival venues and all festival volunteers. Mediapartners AVROTROS, Radio 4, Trouw, Stingray Brava and ZIN Magazine The Early Music Season 17/18 is a production of the Early Music Organisation and is made possible with support of Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland, Goede Rede, Stichting Kasteel Amerongen, Kasteel Ammersoyen, AMUZ, Stichting Oude Muziek Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Waalse kerk Amsterdam, Vrienden Dorpskerk Bloemendaal, Concertgebouw Brugge, BOZAR, Zuiderstrandtheater, Stichting Musora Deventer, Deventer Schouwburg, De Meerpaal, Who’s Next?!, Twee Turven Hoog, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Theater ’t Voorhuys Emmeloord, cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Stichting Huis Bergh, Stichting Kasteel Heeswijk, Stichting Appassionata, Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie, Agora Theater, Stichting Oude Muziek Limburg, Theater aan ’t Vrijthof, Stichting Rijksmuseum Muiderslot, Laurenskerk Rotterdam, Stichting Oude Hollandse Kerken, TivoliVredenburg, Muziekpodium Zeeland, Theater Figi, Grote Kerk Zwolle en Zwolse Theaters. Many thanks to de Gemeentes Utrecht, Deventer, Zaanstad, Zeist en Zwolle, de Provincies Flevoland, Utrecht, West-Vlaanderen en Zuid-Holland, Stichting Dioraphte, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, de Stichting Kannunik Salden/Nieuwenhof, het Elisabeth Strouven Fonds, het Elise Mathilde Fonds, het Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, het Carel Nengerman Fonds, Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Stad Antwerpen, Stad Brugge, de Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek, local organizers, sacristans, administrators and all festival volunteers. Early Music Organisation Office address correspondence address Plompetorengracht 4 Postbus 19267 3512 CC Utrecht 3501 DG Utrecht -

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