Brochure Utrecht Early Music Festival 2018 by Organisatie Oude Muziek

Burgundy

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BURGUNDY Xavier Vandamme Director-manager

The term Burgundy immediately makes you think of abundance and luxury. So is this going to be a Festival packed with exuberant music? With polyphony, opera and dance of the highest order, the answer is an emphatic ‘YES’! But the true statement of this Festival is more serious. It is embodied by the Festival’s focus on the neglected 14th and 15th centuries, the era of the four dukes of Burgundy. Their art-loving court became the cradle of the Franco-Flemish polyphony which gained prominence throughout Europe. Hence in this Festival no great names of the 16th century – no Palestrina, Lassus or De Monte – but instead, hitherto unloved 15th-century composers such as Grenon, Tapissier and Vide. For the rest, the emphasis is on the 18th century, with the brilliant Rameau, Dijon’s most famous son. François Couperin is also given prominence: though no Burgundian, he was born precisely 350 years ago. In 2018 we are placing research more in the limelight than ever before: in three academic symposia, experimental concert formulae and, for example, an unashamed place of honour for a ‘difficult’ genre like the French organ mass. So this year not an artist but a genuine curator in residence: Björn Schmelzer and his Graindelavoix have the Janskerk at their disposal for five days, as a space in which to work and experiment. We find it increasingly essential to integrate colleagues’ ideas into the Festival. We love the contrary dialectic that results from this. Les richesses de Bourgogne: we offer you an exceptionally varied programme which aims to put rigid conventions to challenge. This is what, even after 36 editions, keeps us young! À votre santé!

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FR 24 AUG

SA 25 AUG

SU 26 AUG

MO 27 AUG

TU 28 AUG

Residence Graindelavoix STIMU Symposium TivoliVredenburg 10.00-12.00 Workshop dance (I) UCK

10.00-12.00 Workshop dance (II) UCK

9:30

Graham Sadler TivoliVredenburg

Sara Ceballos TivoliVredenburg

David Burn TivoliVredenburg

Michael Burden TivoliVredenburg

11:00

Pierre Hantaï & Skip Sempé TivoliVredenburg

Hamburger Ratsmusik TivoliVredenburg

Le Caravansérail TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Masques TivoliVredenburg

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra TiVre (11.00)

Tommy van Doorn Domtoren

Olga Pashchenko Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh

Ursula Dütschler Lutherse Kerk

Aurélien Delage Lutherse Kerk

Carole Cerasi Lutherse Kerk

Sollazzo Ensemble Pieterskerk

Servir Antico Pieterskerk

13:00

Huelgas Ensemble ABC (I) Jacobikerk

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra TiVre (13.00)

15:00

Huelgas Ensemble ABC (II) Jacobikerk

Cantica Symphonia Catharinakathedraal

Pluto-Ensemble Pieterskerk

Ordo Virtutum (I) Willibrordkerk

Ordo Virtutum (II) Willibrordkerk Arie Abbenes Domtoren

16:00

17:00

Huelgas Ensemble ABC (III) Jacobikerk

Música Temprana Jacobikerk

Officium Ensemble Domkerk

Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

Le Concert d’Apollon TivoliVredenburg

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren The Tallis Scholars Jacobikerk

Vox Luminis Jacobikerk Paixão & Neumann TivoliVredenburg

18:30

Overture of bells Domtoren (19.00)

What’s new? TivoliVredenburg

20:00

Opening concert The Joyous Entry Utrecht city centre

Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

Cantar Lontano & Capella de la Torre TivoliVredenburg

Orlando Consort TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Correspondances TivoliVredenburg Graindelavoix Janskerk (21.00)

22:30

Graindelavoix Janskerk

24:00

Graindelavoix Janskerk

The four dukes

Josquin

Huelgas Ensemble Janskerk

Couperin

Diabolus in Musica Pieterskerk

Rameau

Residence Graindelavoix

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WE 29 AUG

TH 30 AUG

FR 31 AUG

SA 1 SEP

SU 2 SEP

12.00-18.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

10.00-18.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

10.00-17.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

KVNM Symposium TivoliVredenburg

Lute Symposium TivoliVredenburg

STIMU Symposium TivoliVredenburg

KVNM Symposium TivoliVredenburg

10.00-12.00 Workshop dance (III) UCK

10.00-16.30 Int. Van Wassenaer Competition TivoliVredenburg

Petra van Langen TivoliVredenburg

Thérèse de Goede TivoliVredenburg

Rebekah Ahrendt TivoliVredenburg

Pieter Dirksen Tuindorpkerk

Rosi Braidotti TivoliVredenburg

Sollazzo Ensemble TivoliVredenburg

Doulce Mémoire Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh

Benjamin Alard Tuindorpkerk

James Johnstone Tuindorpkerk

Caffagni & Erdas Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh

10.00-16.30 Int. Van Wassenaer Competition TivoliVredenburg

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren Bertrand Cuiller Lutherse Kerk

Christophe Rousset Lutherse Kerk

Laurent Stewart Lutherse Kerk

Fred Jacobs Lutherse Kerk

Lewon, Kieffer & Newcombe Lutherse Kerk

Graindelavoix Janskerk

Tasto Solo Pieterskerk

Clubmediéval Pieterskerk

Ensemble Leones Pieterskerk

Les haulz et les bas Willibrordkerk The Bach Players TivoliVredenburg

Frans Haagen Domtoren

Van der Poorten & Depraetere Domtoren

Koen Van Assche Domtoren

Weser-Renaissance Jacobikerk

Cappella Pratensis Jacobikerk

Stile Antico Jacobikerk

Cappella Amsterdam Jacobikerk

Companyia Musical Domkerk

Les Inventions TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Lucidarium Geertekerk

Il Suonar Parlante Geertekerk

Cappriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

Janno den Engelsman Domtoren

Camerata Trajectina Paushuize (17.45)

What’s new? TivoliVredenburg

Collegium 1704 TivoliVredenburg

Gli Angeli Genève Domkerk

Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

Doulce Mémoire TivoliVredenburg

Cappriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

Graindelavoix Janskerk (21.00)

Jean-Luc Ho Tuindorpkerk Tasto Solo Pieterskerk

Cappella Mariana Pieterskerk

Ryosuke Sakamoto TivoliVredenburg

Christoph Sommer TivoliVredenburgrg

Ricercar Consort Pieterskerk

Summer School

Children's programme

Lute

Camerata Trajectina Paushuize (17.45)

Insight

Carillon

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BURGUNDY SABRE RATTLING AND THE NOISE OF REVELRY The Early Music Festival Utrecht 2018 proudly hoists the Burgundian flag! The era of Philip the Bold, John the Fearless, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold survives in the expression ‘the Burgundian lifestyle’, which conjures up images of wealth and power, abundance and luxury, refined court ladies and ambitious knights. In his renowned Herfsttij der middeleeuwen (The Waning of the Middle Ages, 1919) the historian Johan Huizinga sketches a different picture: not an era of bloom but of decline, not a high summer but autumn, not a world driven by noble ideals but a façade of formality that masks the coarsening of society. However artificial, traditions and conventions helped people in the Late Middle Ages to give meaning to the passion, beauty, doubt and sadness in their lives. Grand, magnificent Burgundy in the mirror of its (and our) time forms the backdrop for a Festival edition full of sabre rattling and the noise of revelry, with the most beautiful music from the country that once stretched from Groningen to Mâcon.

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Inwijdingsfestival voor het nieuwe barokorgel in de Grote Zaal

MUSIC FOR THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY THE UNKNOWN 15TH CENTURY 1363: Philip the Bold is the first member of the House of Valois to ascend the throne of the mighty dukedom of Burgundy. Four decades later he leaves a vast domain to his son, John the Fearless. After John is murdered, Philip the Good is responsible for a change of course in Burgundian politics, more directed at the Netherlands. Charles the Bold is aiming more at a royal throne, but dies by the sword of a Swiss soldier in 1477. The music from this period forms the heart of the Festival. Tapissier, Grenon, Fontaine, Lebrun, Vide: we are giving a century of totally forgotten repertoire a prominent place in the limelight. It is precisely this music that becomes the cradle of the ‘great’ polyphony of the sixteenth century. Burgundy is the place where it all originated and blossomed.

q Fr 24 Aug 13.00 hrs / Huelgas Ensemble 15.00 hrs / Huelgas Ensemble 17.00 hrs / Huelgas Ensemble 20.00 hrs / Opening concert Sa 25 Aug 15.00 hrs / Cantica Symphonia 15.00 hrs / Ordo Virtutum 22.30 & 24.00 hrs Graindelavoix Su 26 Aug 15.00 hrs / Pluto-Ensemble 15.00 hrs / Ordo Virtutum 22.30 hrs / Huelgas Ensemble

Mo 27 Aug 9.30 hrs / Summer School: David Burn 15.00 hrs / Sollazzo Ensemble 20.00 hrs / Orlando Consort 22.30 hrs / Diabolus in Musica Tu 28 Aug 15.00 hrs / Servir Antico 21.00 hrs / Graindelavoix We 29 Aug 11.00 hrs / Sollazzo Ensemble 15.00 hrs / Graindelavoix 24.00 hrs / Graindelavoix

Th 30 Aug 11.00 hrs / Doulce Mémoire 15.00 hrs / Tasto Solo Fr 31 Aug 15.00 hrs / ClubMediéval 22.30 hrs / Tasto Solo Sa 1 Sep 15.00 hrs / Ensemble Leones 20.00 hrs / Doulce Mémoire Su 2 Sep 11.00 hrs / Caffagni & Erdas 15.00 hrs / Les haulz et les bas

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JOSQUIN DESPREZ PRINCE OF POLYPHONY In the Burgundian garden of delight known as the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2018, one man towers high above the rest: the illustrious Josquin Desprez (ca. 1450-1521), ‘master of the notes’ according to Martin Luther and ‘the prince of music’ according to his contemporaries. The attention paid to this composer is not coincidental: Josquin’s integral oeuvre has been published twice by the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. So let the corks pop during this Festival edition, not least in honour of Josquin himself. He determined the musical agenda in Europe around 1500 by propelling Burgundian polyphony to a high point and at the same time giving a push to the Renaissance style that would blossom during subsequent generations. With our congratulations Josquin receives the gift of his own concert series, daily at 17.00, and twice as a grand evening concert.

Sa 25 Aug 17.00 hrs / Música Temprana Su 26 Aug 17.00 hrs / Officium Ensemble 20.00 hrs / Cantar Lontano & Capella de la Torre Mo 27 Aug 17.00 hrs / The Tallis Scholars Tu 28 Aug 17.00 hrs / Vox Luminis

We 29 Aug 9.30 hrs / Zomerschool: Dr. Petra van Langen 17.00 hrs / Weser-Renaissance Bremen Th 30 Aug 9.15 hrs / KVNM Symposium 17.00 hrs / Cappella Pratensis 20.00 hrs / Gli Angeli Genève

Fr 31 Aug 9.15 hrs / KVNM-symposium 17.00 hrs / Stile Antico Sa 1 Sep 17.00 hrs / Cappella Amsterdam 22.30 hrs / Cappella Mariana Su 2 Sep 17.00 hrs / Companyia Musical

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FRANÇOIS COUPERIN ‘LA GRÂCE, PLUS BELLE ENCORE QUE LA BEAUTÉ’ A quotation of Jean de la Fontaine’s applies to Couperin’s music: it has ‘grace more beautiful than beauty itself’. Couperin ‘le Grand’ was a key figure during the transition from the 17th to the 18th century, and together with Lully and Rameau formed the golden triumvirate of French Baroque. At the same time, with his public affection for Arcangelo Corelli and enthusiastic incorporation of Italian elements, he was a key player in the aesthetic conflict between supporters of the French and Italian styles. Couperin would have been 350 years old this year. This is why the Festival is placing him on the pedestal where he belongs, with delicate and yet full-blooded keyboard music, seldom-performed songs and two splendid organ masses. Jordi Savall is coming in person to honour his hero, with a performance of Les Nations: the ultimate Franco-Italian mix with the unmistakable signature of Monsieur Couperin.

Fr 24 Aug 20.00 hrs / Opening concert Sa 25 Aug 13.00 hrs / Olga Pashchenko Su 26 Aug 9.30 hrs / Summer School: Dr. Sara Ceballos Mo 27 Aug 11.00 hrs / Le Caravansérail 13.00 hrs / Aurélien Delage Tu 28 Aug 13.00 hrs / Carole Cerasi

We 29 Aug 13.00 hrs / Bertrand Cuiller 17.00 hrs / Capriccio Stravagante Th 30 Aug 13.00 hrs / Christophe Rousset 20.00 hrs / Jean-Luc Ho & Les Meslanges 22.30 hrs / Ricercar Consort

Fr 31 Aug 20.00 hrs / Hespèrion XXI Sa 1 Sep 9.30 hrs / Summer School: Dr. Pieter Dirksen 11.00 hrs / James Johnstone & Les Meslanges Su 2 Sep 15.00 hrs / The Bach Players

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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU INNOVATOR AND CROSS-THINKER Lulliste or Ramiste? In the mid-18th century in France you were either for or against the exciting, international and unconventional music of Jean-Philippe Rameau. These days the ‘against’ camp is silent: Rameau is considered not only the most famous composer Burgundy ever produced, but also the French equivalent of Johann Sebastian Bach. Of the two, Rameau had the more innovative mind, did not allow traditions and conventions to restrict him, and particularly in the area of harmony liked to play for high stakes. This Festival edition does the same and boasts a colourful Rameau programme. For example, you can hear the seldom-performed opera Les Boréades in a concertante version, and a grand motet will receive its exclusive world premiere. There are also cantatas, chamber music and reconstructions of his organ music, and a world-renowned keyboard duo will treat you to opera arrangements on two harpsichords. Finally, the last concert of the Festival features the requiem of Jean Gilles, which was performed during Rameau’s funeral service. Fr 24 Aug 20.00 hrs / Opening concert Sa 25 Aug 9.30 hrs / Summer School: Dr. Graham Sadler 11.00 hrs / Hantaï & Sempé 13.00 hrs / Olga Pashchenko 17.00 hrs / Gli Angeli Genève 20.00 hrs / Vox Luminis

Su 26 Aug 11.00 hrs / Hamburger Ratsmusik 17.00 hrs / Le Concert d’Apollon Tu 28 Aug 11.00 hrs / Ensemble Masques 17.00 hrs / Paixão & Neumann We 29 Aug 20.00 hrs / Collegium 1704 Th 30 Aug 9.30 hrs / Summer School: Dr. Thérèse de Goede

Fr 31 Aug 9.30 hrs / Summer School: Dr. Rebekah Ahrendt 11.00 hrs / Benjamin Alard 13.00 hrs / Laurent Stewart 17.00 hrs / Les Inventions Su 2 Sep 17.00 hrs / Il Suonar Parlante 20.00 hrs / Capriccio Stravagante

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BJÖRN SCHMELZER CURATOR IN RESIDENCE This year the Early Music Festival has an artist in residence who is also responsible for part of the Festival in the role of curator. Björn Schmelzer’s ensemble Graindelavoix, literally translated ‘grain of/in the voice’, does indeed have a unique vocal sound with which it produces early music performances with vision, daring and panache, in which imperfection is not to be feared, but is part of ‘being human’ that bridges time and space. Some critics call it sacrilege, others genius; and there are believers and non-believers in the audience, too. One thing everyone agrees about is that Graindelavoix manages time and again to get under the skin of the music. Björn Schmelzer is a Flemish anthropologist and musician, a thinker and a doer, a man who unites head and heart. With the recognizable sound of his own ensemble and his amused and unorthodox perspective, Schmelzer is one of the most inspiring thinkers on the music scene of today.

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GRAINDELAVOIX IN THE JANSKERK A MUSICAL BIOTOPE IN THE HEART OF THE CITY For five days Björn Schmelzer has the Janskerk at his disposal as a space in which to work and experiment. He will give concerts and performances with his own ensemble Graindelavoix, read and debate with author and professor Frits van Oostrom about Huizinga's Herfsttij der middeleeuwen (The Waning of the Middle Ages), and invite his friend and colleague Paul Van Nevel for a concert and book presentation. He has also promised vintage John Cage, heartrending Burgundian lamentations, a staged performance based around Samuel Beckett and an exhibition that links Aby Warburg’s 11/5000 groundbreaking picture atlas with early music. Under his curatorship the concert will become a temple of feisty, fearless sound!

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

Fr 24 Aug 20.00 hrs / Opening concert (NB: Nicolaïkerk) Sa 25 Aug 22.30 hrs / Burgundian lamentations 24.00 hrs / Litany for the whale Su 26 Aug 22.30 hrs / Huelgas Ensemble + After-talk Tu 28 Aug 21.00 hrs / Beckett incantations for the sleepless We 29 Aug 15.00 hrs / Dufay in Italy 21.00 hrs / Outlandish (film)

Sa 25 Aug 11.00 hrs / Huizinga Hours 14.00 hrs / Opening exhibition A Warburg Atlas for Early Music 15.00 hrs / Open rehearsal Burgundian lamentations Su 26 Aug Exhibition A Warburg Atlas for Early Music 11.00 hrs / Huizinga Hours 14.00 hrs / Open rehearsal Dufay in Italy Mo 27 Aug Exhibition A Warburg Atlas for Early Music 11.00 hrs / Huizinga Hours 14.00 hrs / Performance Koen Broucke

17.00 hrs / Open rehearsal Beckett Tu 28 Aug Exhibition A Warburg Atlas for Early Music 11.00 hrs / Huizinga Hours 16.00 hrs / Lecture Van Eyck, Sound & Music 20.00 hrs / Pre-talk Beckett / with André Bernold We 29 Aug Exhibition A Warburg Atlas for Early Music 11.00 hrs / Huizinga Hours 20.00 hrs / Drinks and introduction to Outlandish

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A WORLD OF DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS, DEPLORATIONS AND REQUIEMS In however much luxury and wealth the ostentatious Burgundians lived, death was never far away. Plague, war, illness: mortality was not hidden away in a corner, as has become the unwritten rule today. The Burgundians celebrated death, almost obsessively, with monumental gravestones and exuberant funeral cortèges. Anyone today beholding the marble pleurants at the grave of John the Fearless will get goosebumps. The music of the Burgundian dukes is suffused with this vitalistic trial of strength, with death ever-triumphant. This produces some splendid pages of music, which we are combining in a series of late-evening concerts. From Binchois’ lamentations to Richafort’s requiem.

Sa 25 Aug 22.30 hrs / Graindelavoix Mo 27 Aug 22.30 hrs / Diabolus in Musica

Th 30 Aug 22.30 hrs / Ricercar Consort Fr 31 Aug 22.30 hrs / Tasto Solo

Sa 1 Sep 22.30 hrs / Cappella Mariana Su 2 Sep 9.30 hrs / Summer School: Rosi Braidotti

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

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INTERNATIONAL VAN WASSENAER COMPETITION A MUSICAL SHOWDOWN Ten young early music ensembles, an internationally renowned jury and two rounds of a musical showdown: the Early Music Festival is proud to host the International Van Wassenaer Competition for the third time. The kir (made with Burgundian Aligoté and crème de cassis) is chilling for the winners of the various prizes, including a tour during the Early Music Season. You can also vote for your favourite for the Otto van Wassenaer Audience Prize. Come and experience the tension and the sweet taste of victory during the semi-final and final, both with free admission. You may enter or leave the hall in between the candidates’ performances.

JURY Krijn Koetsveld (chair) Stephan MacLeod Anna Besson Lidewij van der Voort Cassandra Luckhardt Vojtěch Semerád

Th 30 Aug 10.00-16.30 hrs / TivoliVredenburg, Hertz Semi-Final free admission

Sa 1 Sep 10.00-16.30 hrs / TivoliVredenburg, Hertz Final free admission

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WHAT’S NEW? RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN EARLY MUSIC Early music, a dead art? Quite the contrary! Every day musicologists and performers are going in search of historical sources, instruments and playing techniques. Utrecht is the place where this new research is being assigned an increasingly significant role. During the Festival you can keep your finger on the pulse of ongoing research by means of What’s new?. Following the successful debut of the series during the previous edition, every day of the Festival, in Hertz, we are serving up an al dente portion of news and interpretation. In these fascinating presentations (with free admission) you get a glimpse inside the researcher’s laboratory. Ideal for inquisitive minds.

Sa 25 Aug 18.30 hrs / Anne Smith Su 26 Aug 18.30 hrs / João Rival Mo 27 Aug 18.30 hrs / Donald Greig

Tu 28 Aug 18.30 hrs / Catalina Vicens We 29 Aug 18.30 hrs / Dr. Rebecca HarrisWarrick Th 30 Aug 18.30 / Elisabeth Hetherington

Fr 31 Aug 18.30 hrs / Dr. David Catalunya Sa 1 Sep 18.30 hrs / Elizabeth Dobbin Su 2 Sep 18.30 hrs / Jenny Zilmer

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SUMMER SCHOOL SMART STORIES Behind the dozens of concert programmes is hidden a wealth of stories. In the Summer School we lift the lid of the treasure chest: in succinct lectures on central themes and specific programmes, international experts provide context for the music. The secrets of a ‘new’ Burgundian song book, the Bouffonists’ quarrelling, the archeological reconstruction of a nocturnal ballet: the Summer School is the place to be for melomaniacs with a taste for more.

Sa 25 Aug 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Club Nine Dr. Graham Sadler (ENG) Su 26 Aug 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Club Nine Dr. Sara Ceballos (ENG) Mo 27 Aug 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Club Nine Dr. David Burn (ENG)

Tu 28 Aug 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Cloud Nine Michael Burden (ENG) We 29 Aug 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Cloud Nine Dr. Petra van Langen (NL) Th 30 Aug 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Cloud Nine Dr. Thérèse de Goede (NL)

Fr 31 Aug 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Cloud Nine Dr. Rebekah Ahrendt (ENG) Sa 1 Sep 9.30 hrs / Tuindorpkerk Dr. Pieter Dirksen (NL) Su 2 Sep 9.30 hrs / TiVre, Club Nine Dr. Rosi Braidotti (ENG)

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THREE SYMPOSIA DURING THE UTRECHT EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL The Early Music Festival Utrecht is packed with concerts of early repertoire. It is also an epicentre of ongoing research, in which scientists and musicians meet during symposia, workshops and lectures. This year the Festival hosts no fewer than three symposia on different subjects. The Stichting voor Historische Uitvoeringspraktijk (STIMU, the Foundation for Historical Performance Practice) focuses on the life and work (and performance practice!) of JeanPhilippe Rameau, paying special attention to his operas. The Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands celebrates its 150th anniversary with a symposium about Josquin and modern editing techniques. And to finish off the feast, the International Lute Event 2018 will present a symposium about lute repertoire.

Tu 28 & We 29 Aug 9.30-17.00 / STIMU Symposium

Th 30 & Fr 31 Aug 9.15-16.30 / KVMN Symposium

Sa 1 Sep 9.30-15.45 / Lute Symposium

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THE GOOD LIFE ABOUT EATING AND DRINKING With a theme like Burgundy, we must of course not forget the culinary aspect. The French ensemble Doulce Mémoire, which in 2017 presented the dance spectacle Magnificences in the Stadsschouwburg, is this time planning something no less grand – a performance that closely examines the ‘codes’ at a festive banquet at the Burgundian court. With music, dance and some expert explanation of culinary history, etiquette during the Renaissance and making wine without sulphites. At the concerts given by Camerata Trajectina, the advocate of the Dutch Golden Age, you may take your place at the table. You are served an olipodrigo, a stew made of a variety of meats and other ingredients. The Droll Olipodrigo is also the title of a 17th-century collection which includes drinking songs, love ditties and naughty jokes. You are served food, drink and song all at the same time.

Th 30 Aug 17.45 hrs / Camerata Trajectina Fr 31 Aug 17.45 hrs / Camerata Trajectina

Sa 1 Sep 20.00 hrs / Doulce Mémoire

Su 2 Sep 17.45 hrs / Camerata Trajectina

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CARILLON FESTIVAL MORE CONCERTS, MORE MUSIC, MORE FESTIVAL! Nowhere in the world is early music celebrated as it is in Utrecht, and the hammers and bells add an extra dimension to this celebration: thanks to the eighth carillon festival, the entire city is bathed in the Festival atmosphere. On the basis of the Festival themes, rising stars and internationally renowned carillonneurs have compiled tailor-made programmes that explore Burgundian repertoire and the French Baroque. With the music draping your shoulders like a veil, you walk from concert venue to concert venue. Would you prefer to put time on pause for a while in order to enjoy these open-air concerts to the full? Then Flora’s Hof, at the corner of the Dom Square and the Servetstraat, is the ideal spot to listen. City carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig has once again been asked to do the honours as curator of this series in the Dom Tower.

Fr 24 Aug 19.35 hrs / Malgosia Fiebig Sa 25 Aug 10.15 hrs / Have a peek at the carillon 11.00 hrs / Malgosia Fiebig Su 26 Aug 16.00 hrs / Arie Abbenes Mo 27 Aug 11.00 hrs / Tommy van Doorn

Tu 28 Aug 16.00 hrs / Malgosia Fiebig We 29 Aug 16.00 hrs / Frans Haagen Th 30 Aug 16.00 hrs / Ayako van der Poorten & Jasper Depraetere Fr 31 Aug 16.00 hrs / Koen Van Assche

Sa 1 Sep 10.15 hrs / Have a peek at the carillon 11.00 hrs / Malgosia Fiebig Su 2 Sep 16.00 hrs / Janno den Engelsman

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AN ORGAN FOR FRENCH BAROQUE MUSIC RAMEAU AND COUPERIN IN TUINDORP A residential area of Utrecht. A church from the 30s. Brown brick, slender towers. From outside you’d never suspect that the Tuindorpkerk houses one of the finest Baroque organs in the Netherlands – the only example of organ builder Conradus Ruprecht’s work that has survived – on which French Baroque music can be shown to full advantage. No wonder this instrument plays a key role in this Festival programme, where François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau reign supreme. The pride of the Tuindorp district becomes the stage on which the history of music is brought to life, with an introductory lecture-cum-performance, reconstructions of Rameau’s organ music, and Couperin’s two organ masses.

Th 30 Aug 20.00 hrs / Jean-Luc Ho & Les Meslanges

Fr 31 Aug 11.00 hrs / Benjamin Alard

Sa 1 Sep 9.30 hrs / Summer School Dr. Pieter Dirksen 11.00 hrs / James Johnstone & Les Meslanges

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INTERNATIONAL LUTE EVENT 2018 IN COOPERATION WITH THE DUTCH LUTE SOCIETY Rosettes and tablature, strings and frets: the lute remains one of the most popular instruments for the refined repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque. The Early Music Festival therefore again welcomes the International Lute Event, in collaboration with the Dutch Lute Society. From 31 August until 2 September the Festival celebrates the lute with four recitals (with young talent at the forefront) and a symposium. A large number of lute builders and lute societies will also be participating in the Early Music Market.

Fr 31 Aug 12.00-18.00 hrs / Early Music Exhibition 24.00 hrs / Ryosuke Sakamoto

Sa 1 Sep 9.30-15.45 / Lute Symposium 10.00-18.00 hrs / Early Music Exhibition 13.00 hrs / Fred Jacobs 15.00 hrs / Ensemble Leones 24.00 hrs / Christoph Sommer

Su 2 Sep 10.00-17.00 hrs / Early Music Exhibition 13.00 hrs / Lewon, Kieffer & Newcombe

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13.00 Festival prelude Huelgas Ensemble (I) Jacobikerk

FRIDAY 24 AUGUST

15.00 Festival prelude Huelgas Ensemble (II) Jacobikerk

17.00 Festival prelude Huelgas Ensemble (III) Jacobikerk

19.00 Overture of bells Domtoren

20.00 Opening concert The Joyous Entry City centre of Utrecht

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Friday 24 August

Jacobikerk

13.00 / 15.00 / 17.00 hrs

FESTIVAL PRELUDE HUELGAS ENSEMBLE / PAUL VAN NEVEL A BURGUNDIAN ALPHABET IN THREE CONCERTS Passe-partout - The ABC from A to Z: € 50 / € 42 Single tickets: 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 - 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Order nrs. 01 (13.00) / 02 (15.00) / 03 (17.00)

70 minutes per concert

A genuine marathon as a prelude to the Festival: in the course of three concerts the Huelgas Ensemble will sing an entire alphabet of Burgundian composers, one for every letter. The focus is on composers who were employed by the Burgundian court, with a special exception for Josquin, prince of polyphony. The singers, arm in arm with Paul Van Nevel, visit mass movements, motets and chansons by known and to be discovered masters like Champion, Divitis, Binchois, de Orto, van Weerbeke and many others. With ‘anonymous’ to ‘incognito’ they bring a double ode to the many nameless polyphonists who nonetheless made breathtaking contributions to the polyphonic repertoire of the 15th century. H 13.00 concert I From Anonymus to Incertus

q 15.00 concert II From Josquin to Quadris

17.00 concert III From De la Rue to Zonder naam

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Friday 24 August

Domtoren / Pandhof

19.00 hrs

OPENING NIGHT OVERTURE OF BELLS BELLS AND CARILLON CONCERT

free admission to the Pandhof

45 minutes

This year the festive opening night of the Early Music Festival takes place in the historic heart of Utrecht. And how could we better kick off such a festive evening than with the pealing of bells? Because before the opening concert begins, we will let the good burghers of Utrecht know that for ten days the city will be taken over musically by the Festival. To start with we will hear all fourteen bells that make up the voice of the Dom Tower. This great peal of bells, including the Salvator from 1505 which weighs over 8,000 kg (almost 160 hundredweight!) can be heard only a few days per year, and remains one of the most impressive experiences Utrecht has to offer. After the bells it is the turn of the carillon, played by city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig.

q 19.00 hrs Full peal Bells Domtoren

19.20 hrs Malgosia Fiebig carillon concert

In cooperation with the Utrecht Bellringers Guild

Burgundy

Utrecht Early Music Festival

La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin during the Saint-Vincent Tournante

Burgundy

Friday 24 August

Utrecht , city centre

20.00 hrs

OPENING CONCERT THE JOYOUS ENTRY WITH VOX LUMINIS, GRAINDELAVOIX, CANTICA SYMPHONIA AND MANY OTHERS...

€ 38 / € 34 / € 10

Order number 04

180 minutes / a musical night in four parts

By way of opening concert you will get not one, but four different musical moments, at different locations in the historical city centre of Utrecht. Just like the Burgundian dukes did in the Renaissance, so the Festival will make its ‘Joyous Entry’. The four Festival themes are illustrated in a sumptuous parade of programmes. A major highlight is the world premiere of a newly reconstructed motet by Festival star Jean-Philippe Rameau, performed by Vox Luminis. Cantica Symphonia invites you to a polyphonic gourmet tasting, with 15th-century works by Gilles Binchois. Graindelavoix, curator in residence, is given the keys to the Nicolaïkerk, and a touch of Couperin completes the foursome.

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The location of your first concert will be announced no later than a week in advance.

Concept: Thomas Hoeft

Burgundy

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe various locations

9.30 Summer school: Dr. Graham Sadler TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Cantica Symphonia Catharinakathedraal

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Ordo Virtutum (I) Willibrordkerk

SATURDAY 25 AUGUST

10.00 Residence Graindelavoix Janskerk

10.15 Have a peek at the carillon Domtoren

15.30 Fringe various locations

17.00 Música Temprana Jacobikerk

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Sempé & Hantaï TivoliVredenburg

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Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

18.30 What’s new? Anne Smith TivoliVredenburg

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

13.00 Olga Pashchenko Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh

20.00 Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Graindelavoix Janskerk

24.00 Graindelavoix Janskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Saturday 25 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. GRAHAM SADLER THE TURBULENT CAREER OF JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: English.

Enjoyment with a plus: that is the goal of our Summer School sessions. With succinct and lively lectures about the Festival themes, experts enable you to listen to concerts with new ears. We welcome Dr. Graham Sandler, research fellow at Oxford University and world-famous specialist in Rameau and the French Baroque, who will present a detailed portrait of festival star Jean-Philippe Rameau.

€5

Order number 05

Saturday 25 August

11.00 hrs

SKIP SEMPÉ & PIERRE HANTAÏ RAMEAU À DEUX

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 70 minutes

R € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 07

It is always difficult choosing from the Festival’s lavish menu. But certain concerts seem to find their way into your diary automatically. For example, this smash hit that kicks off the opening weekend: keyboard wizards Skip Sempé and Pierre Hantaï perform their spectacular Rameau recording live, on two harpsichords, with brilliant arrangements and splendid teamwork. l

Burgundy

Saturday 25 August

11.00 hrs

MALGOSIA FIEBIG RAMEAU ON THE CARILLON

10.15 hrs Have a peek at the carillon in cooperation with Utrecht Marketing (also on Sat urday 1 September). Duration: 90 minutes, assemble at the entrance of the Domtoren, Domplein 21. Language: Dutch. € 10 per person. Order number 06

Domtoren / Flora's hof 60 minutes With this Saturday morning concert Malgosia Fiebig starts you dreaming of what this Festival day has in store: Rameau in abundance. In arrangements of her own and of Arie Abbenes, her predecessor as city carillonneur of Utrecht, Fiebig makes the bells dance to La Poule, L'Égyptienne, La Follette and other pearls by the master from Dijon. l

free

Saturday 25 August

13.00 hrs

OLGA PASHCHENKO RAVEL & COUPERIN, DEBUSSY & RAMEAU

Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh 60 minutes

€ 18 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 08

Genuine heroes live forever. François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau, for instance, were figureheads of the French Baroque. Among composers who paid homage to them is Maurice Ravel, who in Le Tombeau de Couperin echoes his idol’s clarity, balance and refinement. In his turn, Claude Debussy wrote an Hommage à Rameau as part of Images Book 1. This concert juxtaposes Baroque and neo-Baroque. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Saturday 25 August

15.00 hrs

CANTICA SYMPHONIA / GIUSEPPE MALETTO DUFAY'S MISSA L’HOMME ARMÉ

Catharinakathedraal 60 minutes

H € 22 / € 19 / € 10

What is the secret of the medieval smash hit L’homme armé: the melody, the rousing rhythm or the symbolic undertone? Whilst musicologists are, after more than six centuries, still racking their brains about this mysterious chanson, performers ensure that this song can still be heard today. With the specialists of Cantica Symphonia and the trail-blazing setting by Guillaume Dufay, this concert allows us to taste the crème-de-la-crème.

Order number 09

Saturday 25 August

15.00 hrs

ORDO VIRTUTUM / STEFAN JOHANNES MORENT (I) CLUNIACS: BENEDICTINES IN CLUNY

Willibrordkerk 60 minutes The medieval experts of Ordo Virtutum examine the two contrasting traditions within Burgundian monastic life. The first panel of this diptych is devoted to the Benedictine imperium of Cluny, the Abbey-city with its art-loving abbots and rich church interiors. Abbot Peter the Venerable is the figurehead of this programme of office hymns for the Feast of the Transfiguration. € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 10

Burgundy

Saturday 25 August

17.00 hrs

MÚSICA TEMPRANA / ADRIÁN RODRÍGUEZ VAN DER SPOEL JOSQUIN IN SPAIN: MISSA HERCULES DUX FERRARIAE

Jacobikerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Spanish and Flemish musical chapels characterized the music practice at the courts of Charles V and Philip II. But how would Josquin sound in the Spanish tradition, with singers doubled by wind instruments? And how would Josquin sound alongside music by his admirer Guerrero? Música Temprana, consisting of a capilla (singers) and ministriles altos (wind players), juxtaposes Josquin and music by Morales and Guerrero.

Order number 11

Saturday 25 August

17.00 hrs

GLI ANGELI GENÈVE / STEPHAN MACLEOD RAMEAU'S CANTATAS

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

R € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 12

‘Good wine needs no bush’: the Swiss ensemble of soloists Gli Angeli Genève’s previous appearances in Utrecht have proved its world-class status. This time it is serving up a true delicacy – the world premiere of a cantatille by Claude-Bernard Rameau. Big brother Jean-Philippe fills the second section of the programme with three cantatas from 1720. These works glow with Italian flair and ingenious compositional technique. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Saturday 25 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? ANNE SMITH PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: A 20TH-CENTURY PHENOMENON?

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

Anne Smith discusses Ina Lohr (19031983), the Dutch pioneer of the Early Music Movement. Lohr had a significant influence not only on the world of historical performance practice, but also on the new music of her day. Evidently these two worlds were not so far apart as we might think. l

free admission

Saturday 25 August

24.00 hrs

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER LITANY FOR THE WHALE

Janskerk 50 minutes

H free admission

Dark sounds sigh most beautifully when darkness surrounds us. This concert therefore also focuses on the lamentation, albeit from a particular standpoint. John Cage’s Litany for the Whale leads seamlessly to a session of vocal improvisation. From medieval Burgundy to contemporary avant-garde: a subtle web of references is being spun here, with a leitmotiv that connects centuries and traditions. l

Burgundy

Saturday 25 August

Janskerk

22.30 hrs

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER BURGUNDIAN LAMENTATIONS € 22 / € 19 / € 10

60 minutes

Order number 14

During this Festival edition our curator in residence also goes in search of the soul of Burgundian culture. The result? A brandnew programme devoted mainly to lamentations. Following Björn Schmelzer’s lead, the singers lay bare the roots of an eccentric but extremely refined tradition. They also closely examine the songs of Binchois’ generation and the traces of them found in Josquin and the chansonniers of Margaret of Austria. H

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Saturday 25 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

VOX LUMINIS / LIONEL MEUNIER RAMEAU'S GRANDS MOTETS

1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

Order number 13

Although Rameau was employed as organist at various churches for thirty years, there exists scarcely any religious music. His grands motets are the exception. But even when these works are cloaked in peculiar attire – a fabric of récits, airs for one or more voices, choral sections and orchestral accompaniment – they incline more towards the theatre than the altar... For Lionel Meunier, director of the celebrated Vox Luminis (and, just like Rameau, born a Burgundian!), this programme is the fulfilment of a long-cherished dream.

Burgundy

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Pluto-Ensemble Pieterskerk

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ZONDAG 26 AUGUSTUS

9.30 Summer School: Dr. Sara Ceballos TivoliVredenburg

Ordo Virtutum (II) Willibrordkerk

15.30 Fringe various locations

10.00 Residentie Graindelavoix Catharijneconvent and Janskerk

16.00 Arie Abbenes Domtoren

11.00 Fringe various locations

17.00 Officium Ensemble Domkerk

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Hamburger Ratsmusik TivoliVredenburg

Le Concert d’Apollon TivoliVredenburg

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Children's programme TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

13.00 Ursula Dütschler Lutherse Kerk

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Children's programme TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe various locations

18.30 What’s new? João Rival TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Cantar Lontano & Capella de la Torre TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Huelgas Ensemble Janskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

9.30 hrs

Sunday 26 August

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. SARA CEBALLOS COUPERIN, MORALIST?

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: English.

€5

With his sharp literary and ethical criticisms, moralist Jean La Bruyère didn’t make himself very popular at the Académie Française or at the court of the Sun King. But in François Couperin he discovered a kindred spirit. The American musicologist dr. Sara Ceballos has published on the subject of the parallels in these gentlemen’s discourse, and during this lecture seeks out traces of social criticism in Couperin’s keyboard music.

Order number 15

Sunday 26 August

11.00 hrs

HAMBURGER RATSMUSIK / SIMONE ECKERT SALON BOURGUIGNON: MATINEE WITH PARDESSUS DE VIOLE TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

R € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 16

Do you know the smallest member of the viol family? The pardessus de viole was very popular around the middle of the 18th century and was considered a refined instrument for gentlemen and gentlewomen. Pardessus specialist Simone Eckert and her Hamburger Ratsmusik give the instrument pride of place in this chamber music programme, which transports you to a luxurious salon in 18th-century Dijon. l

Burgundy

11.00 hrs / 13.00 hrs

Sunday 26 August

AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & KATHEDRALE KOORSCHOOL / TON KOOPMAN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME: IK WIL RIDDER WORDEN With: Christiaan Mooij, staging Marieke Koopman, actrice Jonas Furrer, dance This programme takes place at 11.00 hrs and at 13.00 hrs. For children from four to ten years old. Dutch spoken.

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 40 minutes Donna wants to be a knight, just like Don Quixote. With her shield-bearer at her side, she experiences real knightly adventures and fights against windmills and lions. Are these two just as bold as their hero? And will their dream come true? l

K € 10 Order number 17 (11.00) or 18 (13.00)

Sunday 26 August

13.00 hrs

URSULA DÜTSCHLER MAÎTRE BALBASTRE

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10 2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Order number 19

Claude-Bénigne Balbastre was a pupil of Claude Rameau (brother of Jean-Philippe) in Dijon, and rose to become organist of the Notre-Dame. He later gave up the organ in order to become a more subtle harpsichordist – a mission that evidently succeeded, given his Pièces de Clavecin of 1759. Twenty-five years ago Ursula Dütschler released a monumental recording of works by Balbastre and is now returning to her old love. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Sunday 26 August

15.00 hrs

PLUTO-ENSEMBLE / MARNIX DE CAT THE ARGONAUTS: QUEST FOR THE GOLDEN FLEECE

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

H 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10

In 1430 Philip the Good founds his Order of the Golden Fleece, which enables him to give form to and to maintain both his knightly ideals and his political relations. This legendary brotherhood provided Marnix De Cat and his singers with the inspiration for this programme: trumpets announce the arrival of the Duke and his retinue, and love’s praises are sung in refined chansons.

2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Order number 20

Sunday 26 August

15.00 hrs

ORDO VIRTUTUM / STEFAN JOHANNES MORENT (II) CISTERCIANS: AN OFFICE FOR BERNARD

Willibrordkerk 60 minutes

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 21

In this second panel of his concert diptych, Stefan Morent reveals the other side of Burgundian monasticism, by means of chants from the 12th-century Cîteaux. In contrast to the Benedictines of Cluny, the Cistercians advocated an ascetic way of life, in which devotion takes precedence over earthly pleasures. The unadorned lines of the Cistercian plainchant can be heard in an office for Bernard of Clairvaux. l

Burgundy

Sunday 26 August

16.00 hrs

ARIE ABBENES BALBASTRE ON CARILLON

Domtoren / Flora's hof 45 minutes Arie Abbenes is one of the most legendary carillonneurs of the Low Countries. The former city carillonneur of Utrecht is keen to get back to this baton keyboard to play music by Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, the Burgundian master improvisor whose Christmas concerts caused major traffic jams in 18th-century Paris. l free admission to Flora's Hof

Sunday 26 August

17.00 hrs

OFFICIUM ENSEMBLE / PEDRO TEIXEIRA JOSQUIN'S MISSA PANGE LINGUA

Domkerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 22

The master of metamorphosis: that too is Josquin Desprez. In his masses he prefers working with existing material, by means of skilful cutting and pasting, literal quotation, or imaginative paraphrase. In the Missa Pange lingua, for example, the basic plainchant melody becomes like putty in Josquin’s expert hands. With this masterpiece, the Portuguese Officium Ensemble promise to deliver yet another exciting concert. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Sunday 26 August

17.00 hrs

LE CONCERT D’APOLLON / JOÃO RIVAL RAMEAU’S PREDECESSORS

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

R € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Even after his death Lully’s influence remains inescapable. It is not until Rameau comes along, with his new harmonies, that Lully’s era ends. Le Concert d’Apollon reconstructs examples of this in-between generation’s orchestral music from opera’s (which as a rule was notated with merely an upper and a bass voice) in three suites by Marais, Jacquet de la Guerre and Campra.

Order number 23

Sunday 26 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? JOÃO RIVAL RECONSTRUCTING FRENCH ORCHESTRAL PARTS

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

free admission

Many French opera scores have been passed down with no more than an upper voice and a bass part. How then do you go about reconstructing the middle parts? The young harpsichordist and researcher João Rival is currently working on a docARTES research project on this subject. Immediately after his concert with Le Concert d’Apollon in Hertz, he will outline what you have just heard. l

Burgundy

Sunday 26 August

22.30 hrs

Janskerk

HUELGAS ENSEMBLE / PAUL VAN NEVEL THE LANDSCAPE OF THE FRANCO-FLEMISH COMPOSERS € 22 / € 19 / € 10

60 minutes

Order number 25

With photographer Luk van Eeckhout at his side, Paul Van Nevel went in search of the sloping plains and meandering lines of the landscape that so many French-Flemish polyphonists must have known as children. That landscape just has to have left its mark on their emotional and musical development. This aural counterpart to Van Nevel’s newest book, The Landscape of the Polyphonists, will once and for all cause you to listen with different eyes and see with new ears.

AFTER-TALK: CURATOR IN RESIDENCE BJÖRN SCHMELZER AND PAUL VAN NEVEL

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Sunday 26 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

FRIENDS' CONCERT CANTAR LONTANO / MENCOBONI CAPELLA DE LA TORRE / BÄUML JOSQUIN'S MISSA L’HOMME ARMÉ SUPER VOCES MUSICALES

1: € 38 / € 28 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 26 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

Order number 24

A fine Burgundy wine is something you reserve for special occasions and close friends. This evening the corks can definitely be popped for this double bill with two of our favourite ensembles: Katharina Bäuml and Capella de la Torre – artists in residence last year – and Marco Mencoboni with Cantar Lontano, about whom we can already reveal that they will be the residents in 2019. We predict a concert that is a feast of colours. Josquin’s Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales will be performed by a cast of royal proportions with singers and wind instruments. This will be no modest, pious session of whispering, but a princely entertainment.

Burgundy

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Sollazzo Ensemble Pieterskerk

9.30 Summer School: Dr. David Burn TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe various locations

MONDAY 27 AUGUST

10.00 Dance workshop (I) UCK

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Residence Graindelavoix Janskerk

11.00 Fringe various locations

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17.00 The Tallis Scholars Jacobikerk

18.30 What’s new? Donald Greig TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Orlando Consort TivoliVredenburg

Le Caravansérail TivoliVredenburg

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Tommy van Doorn Domtoren

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

13.00 Aurélien Delage Lutherse Kerk

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Handleiding Oude Muziek UCK

14.00 Fringe various locations

22.30 Diabolus in Musica Pieterskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

9.30 hrs

Monday 27 August

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. DAVID BURN THE LEUVEN CHANSONNIER: A ‘NEW’ BURGUNDIAN SOURCE

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: English.

€5

Surely you’re attending the concert given by the Sollazzo Ensemble, today's early music sensation? After this Summer School session you’ll be perfectly prepared for it. Dr. David Burn, professor of Musicology at the University of Leuven, lets you follow the text of the 15th-century Leuven Chansonnier. The manuscript, discovered several years ago, contains a wealth of polyphonic music, including twelve hitherto unknown works.

Order number 26

Monday 27 August

10.00 hrs

RENAISSANCE DANCE WORKSHOP (I) WITH RACHEL FARR & CONSORT AUBAINE

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten (UCK) 120 minutes

H € 25 Order number 27

Margaret of Austria received a good education, played various instruments and learned to dance. When she married she was given a dancing book of basses danses, the most prominent 15th-century dance. The dances are notated with just a single melody line: it is up to the musicians to use this as a guideline for accompanying the dance. Today you will dance the stately basse danse majeur from Margaret’s Dancing Book. l

Burgundy

Monday 27 August

11.00 hrs

LE CARAVANSÉRAIL / BERTRAND CUILLER BRUNETTE, MUSETTE, VAUDEVILLE: THE OTHER COUPERIN TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

With: Jeffrey Thompson, tenor Stephan MacLeod, bass

60 minutes Two male voices, a gambist and a keyboard player: this formidable quartet provides the dream start of this Festival day with a selection of petits riens by François Couperin. After all, he didn’t leave behind only monumental keyboard compendia, but also simple, melodious, funny and intimate airs with a French text. A new take on a monstre sacré!

C € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Order number 28

Monday 27 August

11.00 hrs

CARILLON FRINGE: TOMMY VAN DOORN DUPHLY ON CARILLON

Domtoren / Flora's hof 45 minutes

C free admission to Flora's hof

This morning the Dom Tower will receive a visit from the young city carillonneur of Boxtel, Tommy van Doorn. As well as a Passacaglia by Fischer, a suite of variations by Couperin and the last Concert Royal from the latter’s third harpsichord book, Jacques Duphly’s music also greets the city from on high. We will honour him with a harpsichord recital on 31 August, but this morning he can already give us an idea of what he has to offer. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Monday 27 August

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH SASKIA TÖRNQVIST € 115 / € 105 incl. programme book and dinner

Full-day programme Maximum 40 participants Includes dinner at Restaurant Danel and a voucher for a free programme book. Other Guides will take place on 28, 29 and 30 August. Language: Dutch

Order number 29

This is the opportunity to acquaint yourself with the ins and outs of early music. Under the direction of musicologist Saskia Tornqvist, the Guide is a perfect introduction to the three concerts you are going to hear. What are the differences between the style periods? What exactly is historical performance practice? You will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be plenty of time to discuss your experiences at length. 13.00 Introduction 15.00 Sollazzo Ensemble 17.00 The Tallis Scholars 20.00 Orlando Consort l

Burgundy

Monday 27 August

13.00 hrs

AURÉLIEN DELAGE COUPERIN'S PREMIER LIVRE: MASTERLY MIX

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

C 1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10 2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10

We have François Couperin to thank for some of the most stunning pages found in 18th-century harpsichord literature. Numbering more than 220 solo pieces, his four collections contain much of Couperin’s finest work. We found four keyboard heroes, each of whom was free to browse through his or her favourite volume. Today Aurélien Delage tackles the encyclopedic first volume – the calling card of a musical all-rounder.

Order number 30

Monday 27 August

15.00 hrs

SOLLAZZO ENSEMBLE / ANNA DANILEVSKAIA THE LEUVEN SONG BOOK

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

H 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 31

The sensational Sollazzo Ensemble gives us two concerts of unique Burgundian repertoire. The Leuven Song Book, only recently discovered and now in the safe hands of the Alamire Foundation, is a revelation: not only does it contain long-forgotten repertoire, but also an exquisite collection of late Burgundian polyphony. Nowhere is the sombre melancholy described by Huizinga more perfectly illustrated than in this chansonnier. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Monday 27 August

17.00 hrs

THE TALLIS SCHOLARS / PETER PHILLIPS JOSQUIN'S MISSA L’AMI BAUDICHON

Jacobikerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

For more than four decades Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have guaranteed us unforgettable musical experiences and ethereally beautiful Renaissance music. During this Festival they too will sing an ode to Josquin Desprez, in the form of the remarkably cheerful Missa L'ami Baudichon. Four of Josquin’s most influential motets complete the programme, with the six-part Praeter rerum seriem as the icing on the cake.

Order number 32

Monday 27 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? DONALD GREIG DREYER'S LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC (1928)

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

free admission

The silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc will be shown this evening in the Grote Zaal, with musical accompaniment from the Orlando Consort. This is because, although the film premiered with a newly composed score, Dreyer expressed a preference for early repertoire. After almost a hundred years, his dream will come true. Doctoral candidate Donald Greig will explain how he went about creating the score for this unique film. l

Burgundy

Monday 27 August

Pieterskerk

22.30 hrs

DIABOLUS IN MUSICA / ANTOINE GUERBER REQUIEM: OCKEGHEM AND DE LA RUE 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 - 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

60 minutes

Order number 34

‘Requiem’ – the first word of the Liturgy for the Dead – has become synonymous with a genre that has existed for more than five centuries. The polyphonist Johannes Ockeghem is responsible for the very first complete and polyphonic requiem. His pioneering composition smoothed the way for Pierre de La Rue, who in turn built a spectacular construction out of existing melodies.

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Monday 27 August

Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal 20.00 hrs

ORLANDO CONSORT FILM CONCERT: LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC (CARL DREYER, 1928) 1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

100 minutes / no intermission

Order number 33

Research and experiment help early music to breathe. A great example is the Renaissance soundtrack that the Orlando Consort made for the silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, a masterpiece created by Carl Theodor Dreyer in 1928. The director himself suggested that his film might benefit from the use of early music. In addition, the enraptured gestures and facial expressions of the actors form a link between historical traditions and our current acting practices. The Orlando Consort immersed themselves in this lost art and sought inspiration in the expressive looks, poses and gestures to help them formulate a musical solution in the form of Burgundian polyphony. With energetic motets and imploring Gregorian chant, they provide the ultimate soundtrack for this medieval tale of a tragic heroine of the Hundred Years’ War, which forms the political background to the reign of the Burgundian dukes.

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Burgundy

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe various locations

9.30 STIMU Symposium TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Servir Antico Pieterskerk

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TUESDAY 28 AUGUST

Summer School: Dr. Michael Burden TivoliVredenburg

10.00 Dance workshop (II) UCK

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Residence Graindelavoix Janskerk

11.00 Fringe various locations

15.30 Fringe various locations

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

17.00 Vox Luminis Jacobikerk

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Paixão & Neuman TivoliVredenburg

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Ensemble Masques TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

13.00 Carole Cerasi Lutherse Kerk

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Handleiding Oude Muziek UCK

18.30 What’s new? Catalina Vicens TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Ensemble Correspondances TivoliVredenburg

21.00 Graindelavoix Janskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Tuesday 28 August

9.30 hrs

STIMU-SYMPOSIUM RAMEAU IN CONTEXT AND PERFORMANCE

Curator: Dr. Graham Sadler. Language: English. Passe-partout available, please visit oudemuziek.nl.

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 9.30-16.30 hrs The most important question to be tackled at this symposium is: to what extent can modern performers claim that they are historically informed about the notation and performance of French Baroque music? Subjects to be discussed are tempo relationships, dramatic continuity and the subtleties of ornamentation and orchestration. l

€ 20 / € 10

Tuesday 28 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. MICHAEL BURDEN LE ROY DANSE! THE BALLET ROYAL DE LA NUIT IN CONTEXT

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes Language: English.

Z €5 Order number 35

Cardinal Mazarin had the finest French artists create a luxuriant ballet with the very young Louis XIV in the leading role. Ensemble Correspondances has reconstructed the Ballet Royal de la Nuit; Oxford professor and opera specialist Dr. Michael Burden provides context and insight. l

Burgundy

Tuesday 28 August

10.00 hrs

RENAISSANCE DANCE WORKSHOP (II) WITH RACHEL FARR & CONSORT AUBAINE

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten (UCK) 120 minutes

In the Europe of the 14th and 15th centuries the basse danse was one of the most popular dances. But the dance you will do today, the basse danse mineur or Pas de Brabant, is unique to the Burgundian court. Historical dance expert Rachel Farr has chosen a basse danse mineur from Margaret’s Dancing Book. l

€ 25 Order number 36

Tuesday 28 August

11.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE MASQUES / OLIVIER FORTIN RAMEAU'S PIÈCES DE CLAVECIN EN CONCERTS

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

R € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 37

In between his keyboard music and Les Indes Galantes, the 58-year-old Rameau composed his only volume of chamber music: the Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts. These are trio sonatas for harpsichord, viola da gamba and violin or traverso, and possibly the very first keyboard trios in the history of music. Ensemble Masques appears in quartet formation for a de luxe performance, so with violin and traverso! l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Tuesday 28 August

13.00 hrs

CAROLE CERASI COUPERIN'S DEUXIÈME LIVRE: A STEP INTO THE UNKNOWN

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

C 1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10 2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10

With her superb technique, intelligence, taste and refinement, Carole Cerasi is the dream interpreter for Couperin‘s second book, Pièces de Clavecin. More so than the first part, which is a compendium of older compositions, this volume indicates the path the composer now wished to take: style and form become more modern, and there is room for evocative mood pieces and musical portraits.

Order number 38

Tuesday 28 August

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH FRANK DE MUNNIK

Maximum 40 participants Includes dinner at Restaurant Danel and a voucher for a free programme book. Other Guides will take place on 27, 29 en 30 August. Language: Dutch.

€ 115 / € 105 incl. book and dinner Order number 39

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten Full-day programme Under the direction of music connoisseur Frank de Munnik you will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be plenty of time to discuss your experiences at length. 13.00 15.00 17.00 20.00

Introduction Servir Antico Vox Luminis Ensemble Correspondances l

Burgundy

Tuesday 28 August

15.00 hrs

SERVIR ANTICO / CATALINA VICENS LADIES FIRST: FROM MARIAN MOTET TO LOVE SONG

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

H 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Despite his motto ‘Aultre n’auray’ (‘I shall never have another’), Philip the Good was known for his passion for the fairer sex. Could this explain why Le Champion des Dames – Martin le Franc’s monumental poem about famous women – was dedicated to Philip? From the Virgin Mary to Joan of Arc to Christine de Pisan: medieval woman appears in all her guises, in music by Baude Cordier, Gilles Binchois and Johannes Ghiselin, among others.

Order number 40

Tuesday 28 August

16.00 hrs

MALGOSIA FIEBIG RAMEAU AND BALBASTRE ON CARILLON

Domtoren / Flora's hof 45 minutes

R free admission to Flora's Hof

Over two hundred years after his death, it is high time to re-evaluate Claude-Bénigne Balbastre’s work. Earlier in the Festival his music was heard on Ursula Dütschler’s harpsichord; today we can hear his arrangement of Rameau’s one-act opera Pygmalion on Malgosia Fiebig’s carillon. Utrecht’s city carillonneur also tackles a sacred beast of the Baroque: Rameau’s peerless opéra-ballet Les Indes Galantes. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Tuesday 28 August

17.00 hrs

VOX LUMINIS / LIONEL MEUNIER JOSQUIN'S MISSA L’HOMME ARMÉ SEXTI TONI

Jacobikerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

‘Beware the armed man!’ The warning about ‘L’homme armé’ sounds twice as powerful from the mouth of Josquin Desprez: he twice used the popular medieval melody as the basis for composing a mass. Earlier in this Festival the Missa super voces musicales was performed; today Lionel Meunier is the duty chef, with the brilliant Missa Sexti toni, in which the melody keeps popping up all over the place.

Order number 41

Tuesday 28 August

17.00 hrs

JOÃO PAIXÃO & LAILA CATHLEEN NEUMAN M.M.V. VAN SWIETEN SOCIETY ROUSSEAU’S MELODRAMA PYGMALION TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes Attention: French spoken. Introduction in English.

R € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 42

Philosopher and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau was initially a great admirer of Rameau, but later on became his embittered opponent. Rousseau mocked French opera: he considered the French language unsuitable for singing. He therefore created a new genre, the melodrama, with spoken text and musical interludes. This production is based on research into historical declamation and acting techniques. l

Burgundy

Tuesday 28 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? CATALINA VICENS RENAISSANCE PERSPECTIVES ON NAPLES

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

Taking Renaissance Naples as her focus, researcher Catalina Vicens describes the connections between geography, musicians and ideas. She explains her research into these interrelationships, and creates a multidimensional image of musical practices in this period. l

W free admission

Tuesday 28 August

21.00 hrs

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER BECKETT - INCANTATIONS FOR THE SLEEPLESS

Preliminary discussion at 20.00 hrs by Björn Schmelzer and André Bernold.

J € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 44

Janskerk 60 minutes A musical theatre production about sleep. Or rather about putting off, deferring, abandoning sleep. About exhaustion and fear, about dreaming without sleeping and walking without waking. In a programme resembling an archaeological study of sleeplessness, graindelavoix combines Renaissance music by Josquin, Sheppard, Gombert and Lassus with incantations by the 20th-century Irish author and insomniac Samuel Beckett. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Tuesday 28 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE CORRESPONDANCES / SÉBASTIEN DAUCÉ LE CONCERT ROYAL DE LA NUIT: THE KING DANCES 1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

125 minutes including intermission

Order number 43

‘L’État, c’est moi’: nobody would dare suggest Louis XIV had an inferiority complex. But the view that France was the radiant centre of the universe and French music the ultimate artistic achievement was by no means held by everyone. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries a fierce conflict raged in Europe – with Couperin and Rameau as well – concerning the superiority of either the French or Italian Baroque. With this concert we return to the origin of the FrancoItalian war of aesthetics. The Ballet Royal de la Nuit was a grand dance spectacle, created by a collective of composers commissioned by the then 15-year-old Sun King. Sébastien Daucé – who reconstructed the work meticulously – and his Ensemble Correspondances will give a dazzling performance of the elegant, comical, moving and burlesque dance music in a sumptuous concert. The recording of this programme carried off a whole string of international prizes, so you simply must see this live version!

Burgundy

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

Handleiding Oude Muziek UCK

9.30 STIMU Symposium TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe various locations

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WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST

Summer School: Dr. Petra van Langen TivoliVredenburg

10.00 Dance workshop (III) UCK

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Residence Graindelavoix Janskerk

11.00 Fringe various locations

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Sollazzo Ensemble TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Graindelavoix Janskerk

15.30 Fringe various locations

16.00 Frans Haagen Domtoren

17.00 Weser-Renaissance Bremen Jacobikerk

°°° 12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

13.00 Bertrand Cuiller Lutherse Kerk

Capriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

18.30 What’s new? Dr. Rebecca HarrisWarrick TivoliVredenburg

°°° 20.00 Collegium 1704 TivoliVredenburg

21.00 Graindelavoix Janskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Wednesday 29 August

9.30 hrs

STIMU SYMPOSIUM RAMEAU IN CONTEXT AND PERFORMANCE

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 9.30-16.30 hrs Curator: Dr. Graham Sadler. Language: English. Passe-partout available, please visit oudemuziek.nl

The most important question to be tackled at this symposium is: to what extent can modern performers claim that they are historically informed about the notation and performance of French Baroque music? Subjects to be discussed are tempo relationships, dramatic continuity and the subtleties of ornamentation and orchestration. l

€ 20 / € 10

Wednesday 29 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. PETRA VAN LANGEN NEO-RENAISSANCE: JOSQUIN IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Language: Dutch.

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes

€5 Order number 45

The beginning of the 19th century, with the birth of the concept ‘early music’, saw a growth in interest in historical performance practices. The blossoming of the movement was boosted by the publication of new scores, such as the complete works of Josquin published by the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands. But why was Josquin suddenly deemed to be a Dutch composer? l

Burgundy

Wednesday 29 August

10.00 hrs

RENAISSANCE DANCE WORKSHOP (III) WITH RACHEL FARR & CONSORT AUBAINE

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten (UCK) 120 minutes

The luxurious dancing book that Margaret of Austria was given at her wedding to John of Aragon is made of black paper and bears gold and silver-coloured writing. It contains melodies of the basses danses and an explanation of the choreography. The basse danse irrégulière you will dance today is yet another variant of this dance genre from Margaret’s Dancing Book.

€ 25

Order number 46

Wednesday 29 August

11.00 hrs

SOLLAZZO ENSEMBLE / ANNA DANILEVSKAIA THE BLIND VIELLE PLAYERS OF THE BURGUNDIAN COURT

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes

H € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 47

Jehan Ferrandes and Jehan de Cordoval from Bruges were vielle players, and both blind. They worked for decades at the Burgundian court. We know them mainly thanks to the impact their music had on Dufay and Binchois: Martin le Franc describes the encounter in his Champion des dames. The Sollazzo Ensemble plays and sings music associated with two generations of Burgundian vielle players. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Wednesday 29 August

13.00 hrs

BERTRAND CUILLER COUPERIN'S TROISIÈME LIVRE: A NEW PATH

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

C 1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10 2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10

With his third harpsichord book, Couperin discovered his own unique voice. The old-fashioned suite has had its day, the ordre reaches its peak. Although the number of sections per ordre is restricted, a powerful atmospheric description provides character and coherence. This legendary publication contains some of the most remarkable examples of Baroque keyboard repertoire: right up Bertrand Cuiller’s street.

Order number 48

Wednesday 29 August

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH FRANK DE MUNNIK

Maximum 40 participants Includes dinner at Restaurant Danel and a voucher for a free programme book. Other Guides will take place on 27, 28 and 30 August. Language: Dutch.

€ 115 / € 105 incl. book and dinner Order number 49

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten (UCK) Full-day programme Under the direction of music connoisseur Frank de Munnik you will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be plenty of time to discuss your experiences at length. 13.00 Introduction 15.00 Graindelavoix 17.00 Weser-Renaissance Bremen 20.00 Collegium 1704 l

Burgundy

Wednesday 29 August

15.00 hrs

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER DUFAY: A BURGUNDIAN IN ITALY

Janskerk 60 minutes

H € 22 / € 19 / € 10

The career of Guillaume Dufay – figurehead of Burgundian polyphony – begins in Italy. He seems to have particularly strong ties with Florence and her finest artists. Graindelavoix draws inspiration from this chapter in Dufay’s career in order to breathe new life into his dance-like oeuvre. Dufay’s pièce de résistance is of course included: Nuper rosarum flores, the motet used for the dedication of the cathedral of Florence. l

Order number 50

Wednesday 29 August

16.00 hrs

FRANS HAAGEN FRENCH BAROQUE ON THE CARILLON

Domtoren / Flora's hof 45 minutes

free admission to Flora's Hof

Frans Haagen, whose turn it is at the baton keyboard, is not just a multi-talented musician but also a most productive one. This city carillonneur of Kampen, Almelo, Rijssen, Doesburg and Zutphen has compiled a varied programme of Baroque at its best, with works by Louis and François Couperin, Rameau, Duphly, Dollé and Corette. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Wednesday 29 August

17.00 hrs

WESER-RENAISSANCE BREMEN / MANFRED CORDES JOSQUIN'S MISSA AVE MARIS STELLA

Jacobikerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

‘Paradise on earth’: Luther’s words reflect the admiration that many generations of music fanatics have felt for Josquin Desprez. More than 500 years later his oeuvre has lost none of its technical mastery, poetry and power of expression. Weser-Renaissance from Bremen is glad to act as Josquin’s champion with this full-blooded programme based around the Missa Ave maris stella plus a selection of Marian motets.

Order number 51

Wednesday 29 August

17.00 hrs

CAPRICCIO STRAVAGANTE / SKIP SEMPÉ COUPERIN: CONCERT DANS LE GOÛT THÉÂTRAL

Soloists: Perrine Devillers, soprano Adèle Carlier, soprano NN, soprano NN, bas

C € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 52

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes Capriccio Stravagante is also pushing the boat out for the 350th anniversary of Couperin’s birth. Skip Sempé celebrates the Baroque superstar in a pastiche on the Concert dans le goût théâtral – the impressive eighth part of the collection Les goûts-réünis. He has borrowed a succession of Couperin’s divertissements and his integral airs de cour to compile his own Baroque chamber opera. l

Burgundy

Wednesday 29 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? DR. REBECCA HARRIS-WARRICK DANCE AT THE ACADÉMIE ROYALE DE MUSIQUE

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

Dr. Rebecca Harris-Warrick is an authority in the field of French Baroque dance in Rameau's operas. Just recently she published an initial volume about dance at the Académie Royale de Musique, the result of an enormous amount of research in the archives and libraries of Paris. l

free admission

Wednesday 29 August

21.00 hrs

GRAINDELAVOIX / BJÖRN SCHMELZER FILM SCREENING: OUTLANDISH

Janskerk 110 minutes / no intermission Introduction at 20.00 hrs by Björn Schmelzer.

H free admission

You simply must witness the final feat of curator in residence Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix: the film Outlandish. The approach: an unusual interpretation of Thomas More's Utopia (1516). The decor is provided by the city of Antwerp and a ship in the Atlantic Ocean. And the soundtrack is an interweaving of English and Portuguese polyphony. The film was nominated last year at the Lisbon Film Festival. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Wednesday 29 August

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

COLLEGIUM 1704 & COLLEGIUM VOCALE 1704 / VÁCLAV LUKS JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU: LES BORÉADES 1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

205 minutes including intermission

Order number 53

An international event with a former artist in residence: this will be an evening to remember! It will star the Czech ensemble Collegium 1704, which, four years after its residence, is returning to Utrecht under the inspired leadership of Václav Luks. Jean-Philippe Rameau fills the entire concert programme with the magnificent opera Les Boréades, here in a concertante performance. In this tragedy, drawn from mythology and set to music in 1764, Queen Alphise yearns intensely for her lover Abaris. According to the laws of her country, however, she must marry a descendant of Boreas, god of the north wind. Will the star-crossed lovers prevail…?

q Soloists: Deborah Cachet, Alphise Caroline Weynants, Sémire Juan Sancho, Abaris Benedikt Kristjánsson, Calisis Benoit Arnould, Adamas Nicolas Brooymans, Borée

Nous remercions bien vivement Alain Villain pour la mise à disposition gracieuse de l'ensemble du matériel des Boréades dont il est l'éditeur (Copyright Alain Villain 1982, 1998, 2001, Paris). Sources BnF, Paris Rés. Vmb Ms4 / Vm2 398.

Burgundy

THURSDAY 30 AUGUST

Burgundy

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe various locations

9.15 KVNM Symposium TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Tasto Solo Pieterskerk

9.30 Summer School: Dr. Thérèse de Goede TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe various locations

10.00 International Van Wassenaer Competition TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe various locations

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Doulce Mémoire Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh

16.00 Vander Poorten & Depraetere Domtoren

17.00 Cappella Pratensis Jacobikerk

17.45 Camerata Trajectina Paushuize

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

18.30 What’s new? Elisabeth Hetherington TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Christophe Rousset Lutherse Kerk

20.00 Gli Angeli Genève Domkerk

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Handleiding Oude Muziek UCK

Jean-Luc Ho Tuindorpkerk

22.30 Ricercar Consort Pieterskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Thursday 30 August

9.15 hrs

KVNM SYMPOSIUM IN COOPERATION WITH STIMU EDITING THE PAST

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 9.15-16.30 hrs Curators: Dr. Petra van Langen and Ita Hijmans. Language: English. Passe-partout available, please visit oudemuziek.nl.

This year the KVNM is celebrating its 150th anniversary together with STIMU with a symposium about editing techniques. The contrasts between the methods of the past and the possibilities of the new digital world are huge. Different projects illustrate the various stages of digital editions. After an excursion into literature, performers also get their turn, with the pros and cons of modern editions.

€ 20 / € 10

Thursday 30 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. THÉRÈSE DE GOEDE RAMEAU IN HARMONY

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes Language: Dutch.

€5 Order number 54

Traité de l’harmonie, Génération harmonique, Démonstration du principe de l’harmonie: these are but a few of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s pioneering writings that established him as one of Europe’s most important music theorists. Dr. Thérèse de Goede is the ideal authority to explain the harmonic theory and compositional practice of the ‘French Bach’, and to illustrate it in performance. l

Burgundy

Thursday 30 August

10.00 hrs

INTERNATIONAL VAN WASSENAER COMPETITION SEMI-FINAL

You can walk in or out between the performances of the candidates (ca. 20 minutes).

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 10.00-16.30 hrs Butterflies in the stomach, candidates in their Sunday best, a stoical jury, a drumroll at the prizegiving ceremony: who doesn’t like a bit of competition? For the third time the Early Music Festival hosts the International Van Wassenaer Competition for young talent in early music. The best ensembles go for gold in the final on Saturday. l

Free admission

Thursday 30 August

11.00 hrs

DOULCE MÉMOIRE / DENIS RAISIN-DADRE ALL GOOD THINGS: INSTRUMENTAL VARIATIONS ON DE TOUS BIENS PLAYNE Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh 60 minutes

H € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 55

As well as L’homme armé, there is another tune that we could describe as a favourite of the Burgundians: De tous biens playne was also set to music countless times, and recycled by polyphonists of the highest order. Doulce Mémoire and Denis Raisin Dadre have built a programme around instrumental settings of this song by Van Ghizeghem, Busnois and Morton. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Thursday 30 August

13.00 hrs

CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET COUPERIN'S QUATRIÈME LIVRE: THE CROWNING GLORY

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes Choose your favourite works from book four: this was the sweet torment we put on Christophe Rousset. At a very young age this harpsichordist made an integral recording of the Pièces de Clavecin - a tour de force incorporating four box sets and fourteen CDs which have effortlessly stood the test of time.

C 1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10

2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Order number 56

Thursday 30 August

13.00 hrs

HANDLEIDING OUDE MUZIEK WITH SASKIA TÖRNQVIST

Maximum 40 participants Includes dinner at Restaurant Danel and a voucher for a free programme book. Other Guides will take place on 27, 28 and 29 August. Language: Dutch.

€ 115 / € 105 incl. book and dinner Order number 57

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten (UCK) Full-day programme Under the direction of musicologist Saskia Törnqvist you will attend three concerts, and during dinner there will be plenty of time to discuss your experiences at length. 13.00 Introduction 15.00 Tasto Solo 17.00 Cappella Pratensis 20.00 Jean-Luc Ho en Les Meslanges l

Burgundy

Thursday 30 August

15.00 hrs

TASTO SOLO / GUILLERMO PÉREZ LE CHANT DE LESCHIQUIER

With: Barbara Zanichelli, voice

H 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Pieterskerk 60 minutes A top-ranking female singer, four nimble-fingered born musicians, the monumental Buxheimer Codex and a stiff dose of idiosyncrasy: the recipe for a first-rate concert. Guillermo Pérez and David Catalunya are at their very best in this prize-winning programme of chansons and ballades by Dufay, Binchois and Ciconia. A major role is played by the eschiquiers: early keyboard instruments whose strings are struck with hammers.

Order number 58

Thursday 30 August

16.00 hrs

CARILLON FRINGE: AYAKO VANDER POORTEN & JASPER DEPRAETERE CARILLON DUETS

Domtoren / Flora's hof 45 minutes The Fringe has for years been the port of call for those who wish to dicover the podium stars of tomorrow. For the concert given by young lions Ayako Vander Poorten and Jasper Depraetere we take it – literally – to a higher level: seventy metres above the ground they will operate the fifty bells of the Hemony carillon in a unique two-man recital. On the programme: guitar music, dance suites and polyphony à quatre-mains. Free admission to Flora's Hof

Utrecht Early Music Festival

100

Thursday 30 August

17.00 hrs

CAPPELLA PRATENSIS / STRATTON BULL JOSQUIN DESPREZ: THE IMITATION GAME

Jacobikerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Quotation is plagiarism. True? Not in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Composers cut, pasted and conjured with existing melodies and created new works from historical material. The singer-researchers of Cappella Pratensis closely examine Josquin’s ingenious tricks of the trade and place him next to examples and followers like Busnois, Ockeghem and Willaert.

2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Order number 59

Thursday 30 August

17.45 hrs

CAMERATA TRAJECTINA DE KODDIGE OLIPODRIGO: SONG, FOOD AND WINE

Paushuize 90 minutes Also on 31 August and 2 September. Vegetarian olipodrigo is served on request.

€ 60 / € 55 incl. dinner Order number 60

The Netherlands’ very own early music monument, Camerata Trajectina, invites you to their table for a generous helping of ‘olipodrigo’ – a 17th-century recipe for stew containing a variety of meats and other ingredients. De Koddige Olipodrigo (The droll olipodrigo) is also the title of a song collection with burlesques and caricatures, jokes and stories. Food, wind and song are served simultaneously. The dinner is provided by Huize Molenaar. l

Burgundy

101

Thursday 30 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? ELISABETH HETHERINGTON HISTORICAL ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

Soprano Elisabeth Hetherington is a rising star in early music. With her ensemble Duo Serenissima she has appeared previously in the Fabulous Fringe 2016 and in 2017 in the main programme. Today she tells us about her research into the historical pronunciation of English, both spoken and sung. Why is original English pronunciation so crucial to performing Dowland and the music of his contemporaries?

Free admission

Thursday 30 August

22.30 hrs

RICERCAR CONSORT / PHILIPPE PIERLOT COUPERIN'S LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES

Soloists: Hanna Bayodi, soprano Ana Quintans, soprano

C 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 63

Pieterskerk 60 minutes The French soprano Hanna Bayodi and the Portuguese Ana Quintans join today the Ricercar Consort. The music is by maestro Couperin ‘le Grand’, who just prior to his death had his printer’s licence renewed in order to be able to publish all his music. However, Couperin’s family neglected to pursue the matter, which resulted in the loss of six sets of leçons de ténèbres, among other things. Fortunately, three sets were preserved. l

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Thursday 30 August

102

Domkerk

20.00 hrs

GLI ANGELI GENÈVE / STEPHAN MACLEOD JOSQUIN'S MISSA MALHEUR ME BAT 1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

Order number 61

During the Renaissance it was perfectly normal to use popular songs as the basis for polyphonic church music. L’homme armé is one illustrious example of this, but the anonymous three-part chanson Malheur me bat also proved particularly attractive to Renaissance composers. This led to a great number of masses being written on the basis of this chanson, including one by Josquin Desprez, who employed a brilliant mixture of cantus firmus and parody techniques: the song is quoted both in the form of a single voice and in fragments with all the voices combined. The sublime Agnus Dei is polyphony such as only Josquin was capable of writing: in three sections, for four, five and six voices, the chanson is gradually absorbed into the counterpoint, until the tenor and upper voice take up the original parts again. In the meantime, the remaining voices are actually finishing off a double canon. With audience favourite Stephen MacLeod and his ensemble of soloists, Gli Angeli Genève, this magnum opus will receive the gripping interpretation it deserves.

q J

Special thanks to the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands for providing the scores of the New Josquin Edition.

Burgundy

103

Utrecht Early Music Festival

Thursday 30 August

104

Tuindorpkerk

20.00 hrs

JEAN-LUC HO WITH LES MESLANGES COUPERIN'S ORGAN MASS POUR LES PAROISSES € 38 / € 34 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

Order number 62

Jean-Luc Ho plays the virile but also moving Messe pour les paroisses of François Couperin. This work forms part of the Pièces d’orgue collection which contains short works meant for performance during services and alternating with Gregorian chant. Whereas another mass written for les couvents (for convents and monasteries) is rather intimate in character, the version à l’usage ordinaire des paroisses (for parishes) reveals a more ambitious and lavish intention. The 18th-century Ruprecht organ in the Tuindorpkerk is the ideal partner for this gripping music by a composer who, though still young, in fact already has everything he needs. An evening that goes back and forth between melancholic musing and distinctive statement, and between virtuoso fugues and jubilant stretti.

Burgundy

105

FRIDAY 31 AUGUST

Burgundy

107

9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe various locations

9.15 KVNM Symposium TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Koen Van Assche Domtoren

9.30 Summer School: Dr. Rebekah Ahrendt TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Stile Antico Jacobikerk

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Les Inventions TivoliVredenburg 11.00 Fringe various locations

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Benjamin Alard Tuindorpkerk

17.45 Camerata Trajectina Paushuize

12.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

18.30 What’s new? Dr. David Catalunya TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

20.00 Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Laurent Stewart Lutherse Kerk

22.30 Tasto Solo Pieterskerk

14.00 Fringe various locations

24.00 Ryosuke Sakamoto TivoliVredenburg

15.00 ClubMediéval Pieterskerk

Utrecht Early Music Festival

108

Friday 31 August

9.15 hrs

KVNM SYMPOSIUM IN COOPERATION WITH STIMU EDITING THE PAST

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 9.15-16.30 uur Curators: Dr. Petra van Langen and Ita Hijmans. Language: English. Passe-partout available, please visit oudemuziek.nl.

Under the motto Editing Josquin, this second symposium day about editing techniques brings together the KVNM, STIMU and the Early Music Festival. The context of sources proves crucial to the ‘performance as edition'. A panel of musicians and editors rounds off the day with issues concerning the edition of the future. l

€ 20 / € 10

Friday 31 August

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. REBEKAH AHRENDT THE QUERELLE DES BOUFFONS

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 60 minutes Language: English.

€5 Order number 64

In this lecture by gambist and musicologist dr. Rebekah Ahrendt, the sharp pens of the ‘Bouffonists’ promise to make sparks fly. At the forefront is the Querelle des Bouffons – a milestone in the aesthetic controversy that agitated 18th-century France for many years. In ‘le coin du roi’ (the king’s corner): the supporters of French opera; in ‘le coin de la reine’ (the queen’s corner): the champions of Italian opera. l

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Friday 31 August

11.00 hrs

BENJAMIN ALARD RAMEAU ORGANISTE: THE LOST OEUVRE

Tuindorpkerk 60 minutes

Although for three decades Rameau worked as an organist in Avignon, Clermont, Paris, Dijon and Lyon, not a single note of organ music is to be found amongst his compositions. Armed with arrangements and transcriptions of his own, Benjamin Alard has gone in search of the lost homeland of a Baroque icon. l

€ 18 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 65

Friday 31 August

12.00 hrs

EARLY MUSIC EXHIBITION TIVOLIVREDENBURG

TivoliVredenburg 12.00-18.00 hrs Do majestic theorbos and colourful harpsichords make your heart beat faster? Or do your fingers itch to learn to strum a Renaissance dance yourself? Then visit the Early Music Exhibition: the chance to view instruments close up and to try them out, or to rummage through boxes full of sheet music. All the stallholders will be presented on oudemuziek.nl/markt. Free admission

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Friday 31 August

13.00 hrs

LAURENT STEWART DIPTYCH FRENCH-STYLE: RAMEAU AND DUPHLY

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

R 1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10 2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10

Every age has its icons. For example, Jean-Philippe Rameau was catapulted into eternal fame thanks to his brilliant operas and equally brilliant keyboard music. Other top talents, such as Jacques Duphly, slipped between the cracks of time. Full of character and yet refined, chivalrous yet profound: in the hands of Laurent Stewart, Duphly’s oeuvre will turn out to be one of the revelations of this Festival.

Order number 66

Friday 31 August

15.00 hrs

CLUBMEDIÉVAL / THOMAS BAETÉ BRUGES, THE BURGUNDIAN METROPOLIS

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

H 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 67

By the 14th century the Duchy of Burgundy had made Bruges its official residence. The city became a magnet for artists. The Gruuthuse manuscript, the oldest known collection of Middle Dutch songs, gives expression to the ebullient character of Bruges the metropolis. ClubMediéval juxtaposes these songs with works by Oswald von Wolkenstein and Machaut. l

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Friday 31 August

16.00 hrs

KOEN VAN ASSCHE COUPERIN, BALBASTRE AND RAMEAU ON CARILLON

Domtoren / Flora's hof 45 minutes Yesterday you heard one of his most talented students, Jasper Depraetere, at work, and today Koen Van Assche himself ushers in the second festival weekend with music by François Couperin, Claude-Bénigne Balbastre and Jean-Philippe Rameau. R

Free admission to Flora's Hof

Friday 31 August

17.00 hrs

STILE ANTICO JOSQUIN'S MISSA GAUDEAMUS

Jacobikerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 68

Energetic, intellectual, eloquent and confident: in the Missa Gaudeamus we encounter a grownup Josquin Desprez, who shows off with bravura all the compositional techniques and stylistic elements of his day. Cantus firmus and canon techniques go hand in hand with melodic ingenuity, rhythmic complexity and sophisticated climax-building. Multiple prize-winning Stile Antico sings this work, alternated with Josquin’s motets. l

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TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

17.00 hrs

LES INVENTIONS / PATRICK AYRTON BAROQUE DELICACIES FROM DIJON: BOURGEOIS, CAPPUS, BOUSSET € 22 / € 19 / € 10

60 minutes

Order number 69

Digging for unexplored repertoire and misjudged masters is the mission of harpsichordist and conductor Patrick Ayrton, who lives and works in Burgundy. This time he focusses on Dijon at the time of Jean-Philippe Rameau, whose cantata Thétis he uses as a benchmark. With Phèdre et Hypolitte by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois – a Burgundian who later became maître de musique at the Sainte Chapelle in Paris – dances by Cappus and a shepherd’s poem by Drouard de Bousset, this is a concert that Baroque fans should not miss. R

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Friday 31 August

17.45 hrs

CAMERATA TRAJECTINA DE KODDIGE OLIPODRIGO: SONG, FOOD AND WINE

Also on 30 August and

Paushuize

2 September.

90 minutes

Vegetarian olipodrigo is served

on request.

€ 60 / € 55 incl. dinner Order number 70

Friday 31 August

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? DR. DAVID CATALUNYA DECODING THE CODEX LAS HUELGAS

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes Language: English.

W Free admission

The Codex Las Huelgas contains nearly two hundred works of music and was compiled in the Cistercian convent in Las Huelgas. In singing from the codex, the hundred-strong choir of nuns were disregarding the Cistercians’ ban on polyphonic music. Dr. David Catalunya recounts his research into these independent women and possibly the most refined and demanding music from 13th-century Spain. l

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

HESPÈRION XXI / JORDI SAVALL FRANÇOIS COUPERIN'S LES NATIONS 1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

135 minutes including intermission

Order number 71

As worldwide ambassador for early music, Jordi Savall is the ideal advocate for the composer who three centuries ago raised the topic of ‘Europe’. In 1726 François Couperin published the collection Les Nations. Couperin presents four ordres, each one representing one of the great Catholic powers of Europe in the early 18th century: France (La Françoise), Spain (L’Espagnole), the Holy Roman Empire (L’Impériale) and the house of Savoy (La Piemontoise). Each ordre in turn was given an international identity, and consisted of an Italian trio sonata and an extended French suite. With this work Couperin appears to have single-handedly reconciled the French and Italian goûts – creating not a lukewarm cocktail, but a polyptych that is bursting with an opulence of sound and colour.

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22.30 hrs

Pieterskerk

TASTO SOLO / GUILLERMO PÉREZ DE LA RUE, JOSQUIN, BRUMEL: DÉPLORATIONS 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 - 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

60 minutes

Order number 72

Dirges, lamentations, requiems: in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, when death was never far removed from life, music about guilt and grief was the norm. The always excellent Tasto Solo (five singers, four instrumentalists) has collected the finest tear-jerking works from the era of the Franco-Flemish grand masters such as Pierre de La Rue, Josquin Desprez, Antoine Brumel and Loyset Compère. H

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Friday 31 August

24.00 hrs

RYOSUKE SAKAMOTO LATE NIGHT WITH LUTE

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 45 minutes

€ 18 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 73

This recital by the young but already internationally prize-winning lute player Ryosuke Sakamoto is all about intimacy and concentrated listening. With the finest Burgundian songs as his starting point – by Binchois, Busnois, Tinctoris and others – this Japanese virtuoso interweaves his own arrangements with Renaissance intabulations. l

October 2018-May 2019

SEASON 2018/2019 FROM THE MAKERS OF THE UTRECHT EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

In the Netherlands and Belgium Information and tickets: oudemuziek.nl/seizoen From English songs of the tenth century, via Christmas motets by Heinrich Schütz, to the Concerti Armonici by Count Van Wassenaer: the 2018/2019 season presents music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque at the most beautiful locations in the Netherlands and Belgium. l

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9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Fred Jacobs Lutherse Kerk

9.30 Summer School: Dr. Pieter Dirksen Tuindorpkerk

14.00 Fringe various locations

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Lute Symposium TivoliVredenburg

10.00 International Van Wassenaer Competition TivoliVredenburg

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Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

10.15 Have a peek at the carillon Domtoren

11.00 Fringe various locations

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James Johnstone Tuindorpkerk

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15.00 Ensemble Leones Pieterskerk

15.30 Fringe various locations

17.00 Cappella Amsterdam Jacobikerk

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Ensemble Lucidarium Geertekerk

18.30 What’s new? Elizabeth Dobbin TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Doulce Mémoire TivoliVredenburg

Malgosia Fiebig Domtoren

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

22.30 Cappella Mariana Pieterskerk

24.00 Christoph Sommer TivoliVredenburg

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Saturday 1 September

9.30 hrs

LUTE SYMPOSIUM THE LUTE AND BURGUNDY

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 9.30-15.45 hrs Language: English.

In collaboration with the Dutch Lute Society, we have made the theme of this symposium The Lute and Burgundy. Practice and science come together in the lectures by lute specialists including Victor Coelho, Marc Lewon, Willem Mook and John Griffith. Various aspects of repertoire and lute building will be examined. l

€ 20 / € 10

Saturday 1 September

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. PIETER DIRKSEN THE RUPRECHT ORGAN AND ITS REPERTOIRE

Language: Dutch.

Tuindorpkerk 60 minutes

€5 Order number 74

For a series of three concerts, the Ruprecht organ in the Tuindorpkerk will become the stage on which superstars Couperin and Rameau can show what they are best at. But what makes this instrument so suited to French Baroque music? Are you allowed to sing along during an organ mass? And why are there so few scores of French organ repertoire available? Musicologist, organist and specialist dr. Pieter Dirksen is the perfect guide. l

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Saturday 1 September

10.00 hrs

INTERNATIONAL VAN WASSENAER COMPETITION FINAL

You can walk in or out of Hertz between the performances of the finalists (ca. 30 minutes).

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 10.00-16.30 hrs The prizes are not handed out until the finish line is reached. That also applies to this edition of the biennial International Van Wassenaer Competition. Between four and six young early music ensembles will fight for the laurels, which consist of various money prizes and a tour during the Early Music Season. Come and encourage these young lions and vote for your favourite, because an Audience Prize will also be awarded.

Free admission

Saturday 1 September

11.00 hrs

JAMES JOHNSTONE WITH LES MESLANGES COUPERIN'S ORGAN MASS POUR LES COUVENTS

Tuindorpkerk 60 minutes

C € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 76

The correct instrument for every kind of repertoire: for French organ music that is no easy task in the Netherlands. Luckily, the Ruprecht organ in the Tuindorpkerk meets almost all the requirements and will therefore host three concerts. The British organist James Johnstone will play the stately and melancholy Messe pour les couvents by a very young Couperin. Les Meslanges will sing plainchant in alternation (alternatim) with the organ. l

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Saturday 1 September

11.00 hrs

MALGOSIA FIEBIG COUPERIN ON HIGH

10.15 uur: Have a peek at the carillon in cooperation with Utrecht Marketing (also on 25 August). Duration: 90 minutes, assemble at the entrance of the Domtoren, Domplein 21. Language: Dutch. € 10 per person. Order number 75

Domtoren / Flora's hof 60 minutes For her final recital in this Festival edition, Malgosia Fiebig places her amazing hammer playing in the service of François Couperin ‘le Grand’. For this she has chosen five Baroque composers who drew their inspiration from the master or who dedicated works to him. This involves suites by Forqueray and Siret, dances by Caix d’Hervelois and d’Agincourt, but it’s a sonata by Dornel that steals the show. l

Free admission

Saturday 1 September

13.00 hrs

FRED JACOBS LUTE MUSIC BASED AROUND A BURGUNDIAN REBEL: BUSSY-RABUTIN

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

L 1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10 2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10 Order number 77

The Burgundian libertine Bussy-Rabutin had led a turbulent life amongst the highest nobility and military, but he was too bold. During an enforced exile he decorated his castle with portraits with mean captions, a sweet revenge at the mundane lives of his Parisian friends. But the lute music composed in these circles illustrates his nostalgia. l

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Saturday 1 September

15.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE LEONES / MARC LEWON STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART: THE CHANSONNIER CORDIFORME Pieterskerk 60 minutes

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

With three singers and three instrumentalists Ensemble Leones is ready for one of the finest gems of the Burgundian era: the Chansonnier Cordiforme, a manuscript of Italian and French love songs in the shape of a heart. Containing works by the most renowned polyphonists of the 15th century – Dufay, Morton, Binchois, Ockeghem – this manuscript represents a rich source of high-quality court music.

Order number 78

Saturday 1 September

17.00 hrs

CAPPELLA AMSTERDAM / DANIEL REUSS JOSQUIN'S MOTETS

Jacobikerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 79

As in the Flemish Primitives’ paintings, the tears flow copiously in the oeuvre of composers such as Josquin Desprez. With this selection of Josquin’s finest dark timbres (Miserere mei, De profundis, Absalon fili mi), Cappella Amsterdam guarantees us a breathtaking programme with a palette of muted colours. The concert ends with Musae jovis, Gombert’s lamentation on the death of Josquin. l

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Saturday 1 September

17.00 hrs

ENSEMBLE LUCIDARIUM / AVERY GOSFIELD LA DOLCE VISTA: THE WORLD OF DUFAY

Geertekerk 60 minutes

H 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Guillaume Dufay spent a long time in Italy, where refined Northern compositions could be heard alongside primitive polyphony, dances and songs. Dufay's complex music had a great influence, but the more simple genres of music also brought about change. In the footsteps of Dufay, Ensemble Lucidarium investigates the influence of traditions that were passed down by word of mouth in the 14th century.

Order number 80

Saturday 1 September

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? ELIZABETH DOBBIN DECLAMATION AND SPRECHSTIMME IN THE FRENCH AIR

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes

W Free admission

Singer Elizabeth Dobbin is at present involved in research within docARTES’ doctoral programme. Today she demonstrates how declamation and sprechstimme techniques from historical sources can be employed by singers to discover a performance style suited to the French airs serieux et à boire. l

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Saturday 1 September

22.30 hrs

CAPPELLA MARIANA / VOJTĚCH SEMERÁD RICHAFORT'S REQUIEM

Pieterskerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

As the day closes its eyes, our internal clock is also allowed to tick a little more slowly. With sounds of hope, comfort and pensive beauty, Cappella Mariana (celebrating its 10th birthday!) helps bring the hustle and bustle to a standstill. The music is provided by an illustrious master/pupil couple: Jean Richafort composed a moving requiem for his teacher Josquin, whose Miserere is one of the best-loved of all Renaissance compositions.

Order number 82

Saturday 1 September

24.00 hrs

CHRISTOPH SOMMER A NOCTURNE WITH STRINGS

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 45 minutes

€ 18 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 83

The personal favourites of an up-and-coming first-rate talent? We like the sound of that. The young lute and theorbo player Christoph Sommer has collected 15th and 16th-century arrangements of music by Josquin Desprez, such as his well-known Mille regretz. With the addition of original compositions, this programme is a homage to Spinacino, de Narvàez, da Milano and father and son Neusidler. l

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

DOULCE MÉMOIRE / DENIS RAISIN DADRE A STAGED RENAISSANCE BANQUET 1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

Order number 81

With Burgundy we immediately think of food and drink. But what exactly happened at the court of the dukes of Burgundy? What did they eat, and how was it served? And how were their table manners? This highly original concert spectacle brings together culinaria, dance, theatre and music. Onstage a table of honour has been laid. There is playing, singing and dancing. Research into historical dance, music and cuisine lies at the heart of this production. Master of ceremonies and culinary publicist Onno Kleyn leads us through a production that greatly resembles an exciting documentary, from the Service de Tourtes et des Pastés until the Service des Issues. And who knows? Perhaps as a spectator you will also be served some small delicacy.

q Denis Raisin Dadre, musical direction Hubert Hazebroucq, choreography and dance Fabian Müllers, head chef and taste archaeologist

Philippe Vallepin, staging Onno Kleyn, master of ceremonies

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9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Les haulz et les bas Willibrordkerk

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SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER

9.30 Summer School: Dr. Rosi Braidotti TivoliVredenburg

10.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

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Workshop Josquin TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe various locations

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Caffagni & Erdas Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh

12.30 Fabulous Fringe various locations

13.00 Lewon, Kieffer & Newcombe Lutherse Kerk

14.00 Fringe various locations

The Bach Players TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe various locations

16.00 Janno den Engelsman Domtoren

17.00 Companyia Musical Domkerk

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Il Suonar Parlante Geertekerk

17.45 Camerata Trajectina Paushuize

18.30 What’s new? Jenny Zilmer TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Capriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

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Sunday 2 September

9.30 hrs

SUMMER SCHOOL: DR. ROSI BRAIDOTTI DEATH IN BURGUNDY

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine 60 minutes Language: English

The Hundred Years’ War, floods, plague, religious persecution and famine: even in a Land of Milk and Honey like Burgundy, death lay in wait everywhere. Dr. Rosi Braidotti, internationally renowned philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Utrecht, places the theme in a broader context. l

€5 Order number 84

Sunday 2 September

10.00 hrs

EARLY MUSIC EXHIBITION TIVOLIVREDENBURG

TivoliVredenburg 10.00-17.00 hrs Do majestic theorbos and colourful harpsichords make your heart beat faster? Or do your fingers itch to learn to strum a Renaissance dance yourself? Then visit the Early Music Exhibition: the chance to view instruments close up and to try them out, or to rummage through boxes full of sheet music. All the stallholders will be presented on oudemuziek.nl/markt. Free admission

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Sunday 2 September

10.00 hrs

WORKSHOP SINGING JOSQUIN WITH STEPHAN MACLEOD

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine 10.00-14.30 hrs Apply via oudemuziek.nl/zangworkshop Please

provide

information

about your vocal experience, voice type and food allergies

A few days after the concert of Gli Angeli Genève you can experience singing Josquin's music yourself in this workshop under the direction of Stephan MacLeod. You will sing Ave Maria, De profundis and Mille regretz.

(lunch).

J € 25 incl. lunch

Sunday 2 September

11.00 hrs

CLAUDIA CAFFAGNI & PAOLA ERDAS ALL FOR LOVE: LIFE AND WORK OF CHRISTINE DE PISAN

Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh 60 minutes

H € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 85

When her entire family moved from Italy to France, Cristina da Pizzano received a new name and a new life. The inspiring story of Christine de Pisan – the first female professional author in history – takes place during the turbulent transitional period between the 14th and 15th centuries. With music by Landini, da Firenze, Dufay and Binchois, Claudia Caffagni and Paola Erdas sketch a portrait of this fascinating feminist avant la lettre. l

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Sunday 2 September

13.00 hrs

MARC LEWON, PAUL KIEFFER & GRACE NEWCOMBE LUTE SONGS BURGUNDIAN STYLE

Lutherse Kerk 60 minutes

1: € 18 / € 16 / € 10

Early Music Festival, Sunday afternoon, the lute in the limelight: no better opportunity to get a taste of 15th-century music for two lutes and soprano! These three musicians bring popular dances, chansons and cantus firmi from Burgundian repertoire back to life: the echo of popular music practice from the era of the mighty House of Valois.

2: € 16 / € 14 / € 10

Order number 86

Sunday 2 September

15.00 hrs

LES HAULZ ET LES BAS THE GOOD, THE BOLD AND THE FEARLESS

Willibrordkerk 60 minutes

H € 22 / € 19 / € 10 Order number 87

The Burgundian rulers attached great importance to a high-quality court chapel, but music could also be heard daily in their private apartments. Minstrels entertained the courtiers and thereby influenced the musical agenda of Europe’s political epicentre. With examples of the ‘high’ and ‘low’ oeuvre of Dufay and Binchois – the golden pair of Burgundian composers – Les haulz et les bas live up to their name. l

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Sunday 2 September

15.00 hrs

THE BACH PLAYERS / NICOLETTE MOONEN WITH RICARDO BARROS & GUDRUN SKAMLETZ DANCING TO COUPERIN TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 60 minutes With: Ricardo Barros, dance and choreography Gudrun Skamletz, dance

C € 22 / € 19 / € 10

The Bach Players reveal themselves in an unexpected light: the ensemble from London delved into the instrumental oeuvre of François Couperin and play for Baroque dance experts Ricardo Barros and Gudrun Skamletz. The underlying question remains: is Couperin’s music, despite the dance titles, actually intended to be danced to? Rebel’s Les Caractères de la Dance is at any rate the dream soundtrack for a premier danseur.

Order number 88

Sunday 2 September

16.00 hrs

JANNO DEN ENGELSMAN BALBASTRE, RAMEAU AND DE KONINK ON CARILLON

Domtoren / Flora's hof 45 minutes

Free admission to Flora's Hof

‘One can never pay enough tribute to Monsieur Balbastre for his exceptional talent.’ Commended by his contemporaries, Claude-Bénigne Balbastre is also the choice of Janno den Engelsman, city carillonneur of Middelburg, Bergen op Zoom and Zierikzee. Balbastre stands beside the great Rameau, ‘uncle’ Louis Couperin, polyphonists Obrecht and Desprez, and Servaas de Konink – an Amsterdammer from the Golden Age. l

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Sunday 2 September

17.00 hrs

COMPANYIA MUSICAL / JOSEP CABRÉ JOSQUIN'S MISSA FORTUNA DESPERATA

Domkerk 60 minutes

J 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Long before upcycling became a trend, there was Josquin. To this day his inventiveness in processing existing musical material remains unparalleled. The Catalan Josep Cabré and his Companyia Musical focus on a fine example of what Josquin was capable of: the Missa Fortuna desperata, in which the three voices of an Italian song are deployed both separately and combined – a technical tour de force that also happens to sound splendid.

Order number 89

Sunday 2 September

17.00 hrs

IL SUONAR PARLANTE / VITTORIO GHIELMI RAMEAU, VIOLONISTE?

Geertekerk 60 minutes

R 1: € 22 / € 19 / € 10 2: € 19 / € 16 / € 10 Order number 90

Eighteen, rebellious, ambitious, and in search of adventure in Italy, music’s paradise; this describes Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1701. Our knowledge of the route he took is limited, but it is thought he visited Milan and worked as a violinist in troupes of travelling musicians. What might he have played and heard? Vittorio Ghielmi and Il Suonar Parlante tackle this topic and hazard a glorious gamble. l

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Sunday 2 September

17.45 hrs

CAMERATA TRAJECTINA DE KODDIGE OLIPODRIGO: SONG, FOOD AND WINE

Paushuize 90 minutes Also on 30 and 31 August. Vegetarian olipodrigo is served on request.

€ 60 / € 55 incl. dinner

Order number 91

Sunday 2 September

18.30 hrs

WHAT’S NEW? JENNY ZILMER DEVOTION IN THE PERFORMANCE OF BUXTEHUDE

Language: English.

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz 30 minutes

W Free admission

What role did devotion play for Lutherans hearing Buxtehude’s church music in the 17thcentury? How can an understanding of devotional texts inform our experience and performance of this music today? Jenny Zilmer throws light on her doctoral research, and proposes a new approach this repertoire. l

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TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

20.00 hrs

CAPRICCIO STRAVAGANTE & CAPELLA CRACOVIENSIS / SKIP SEMPÉ ADIEU, MONSIEUR RAMEAU 1: € 38 / € 34 / € 10 - 2: € 36 / € 32 / € 10

75 minutes / no intermission

Order number 92

With this concert we pay our last respects to Rameau, with a performance of Jean Gilles’ requiem as it actually sounded in 1764 at Rameau’s funeral. This was the most famous Requiem in 18th-century France, and was performed at numerous funerals, including royal ones. The composers Rebel, Corrette and Francoeur adapted the score, adding, as a homage to their late friend, sections from his operas, including Castor et Pollux, Dardanus and Zoroastre. From ‘Joyous Entry’ to musical eulogy: with this concert the Early Music Festival 2018 comes full circle, reaching a fitting conclusion.

Soloists: Judith van Wanroij, soprano Sean Clayton, haute-contre Davy Cornillot, tenor Lisandro Abadie, bass

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COLOPHON Brochure Utrecht Early Music Festival 2018 – Burgundy Editors Susanne Vermeulen, Sofie Taes, Xavier Vandamme, Thiemo Wind Concept design & design cover Doretta Rinaldi Lay-out Esther de Bruijn Cover image Jan van Eyck, ‘Lucca Madonna’, ca. 1437. Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum. Images inside Marieke Wijntjes, Foppe Schut, Anna van Kooij, Susanne Vermeulen, Melle Meivogel, Yat Ho Tsang, Paolo Cantamessa, Vera Rosemberg, Marianna Oklejak, Markus Werner, Jay Achterberg, Miel Peters, Rob Stevens, Wojciech Bednarski, Jean-Baptiste Millot, Aurélien Cadillac, Martin Chiang, Benjamin Dubuis, Library of Congress, David Samyn, Koen Broos, Diego Salamanca, Elam Rotem, Marco Borggreve, Petra Hajská, Luc Detours, Ignacio Barrios, Luís Duarte, Bert Knot, Hans Morren, Tony Lee, Victoriano Moreno, Teresa Carossier, Dominik Schneider, James Naumburg, Annelies van der Vegt, Fabian Müllers, Roberto Srelz and all ensembles. Print BCM Publication date 11 May 2018, changes reserved. the 37th Utrecht Early Music Festival is a production of the Organisatie Oude Muziek 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, K.F. Hein Fonds, Institut français, Jacoba van Wassenaer Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, BNG Cultuurfonds, Thurkowfonds, J.C.P. Stichting, Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Mr. August Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, Carel Nengerman Fonds, Alphatron. In coproduction with TivoliVredenburg, AVROTROS, Radio 4, MAfestival, Stichting voor Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk, Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, Nederlandse Luitstichting, Concertzender, Stingray Brava, Utrechts Klokkenluiders Gilde, Never Made Film Productions and Utrecht Marketing. Special thanks to Frans Vreeke, Margriet van Kraats, Suzanne van Dommelen, Peter Tra, Jorunn Labordus, Bert Begeman, Gerko Telman en alle medewerkers van TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht Marketing, Thomas Höft, Malgosia Fiebig, Dick Hoek, Leo Folgering, Theo Poort, Bruce Kennedy, Henk Klop klavecimbels & orgels, Jan Kalsbeek klavecimbels, Nander Cirkel, Harm Witteveen, Renée Vulto, Robin Bekker, Eric San Giorgi, Marco Mencoboni, Thiemo Wind, Joost van der Kruijssen, managers, sacristans and employees of all mentioned institutions and festival locations, and all festival volunteers. Media partners AVROTROS, Radio 4, Stingray Brava and ZIN Magazine. The Early Music Season 18/19 is a production of the Organisatie Oude Muziek and is made possible with support of Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland, Goede Rede Concerten, Stichting Kasteel Amerongen, Kasteel Ammersoyen, AMUZ, Stichting Oude Muziek Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Waalse Kerk Amsterdam, Vrienden Dorpskerk Bloemendaal, BOZAR, Zuiderstrandtheater, Stichting Musora Deventer, Deventer Schouwburg, De Meerpaal, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Theater ’t Voorhuys Emmeloord, Stichting Huis Bergh, Stichting Appassionata, Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie, Agora Theater, Cultuurcentrum Maasmechelen, Stichting Oude Muziek Limburg, Theater aan ‘t Vrijthof, Stichting Rijksmuseum Muiderslot, Musis, Laurenskerk Rotterdam, De Doelen, Stichting Oude Hollandse Kerken, Museum Schokland, TivoliVredenburg, Muziekpodium Zeeland, Theater Figi, Grote Kerk Zwolle, Zwolse Theaters, Universiteit Leiden and Geelvinck Muziek Musea. Special thanks to Gemeente Utrecht, de Provincies Flevoland, Utrecht, West-Vlaanderen en ZuidHolland, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten, de Stichting Kanunnik Salden/Nieuwenhof, het Elisabeth Strouven Fonds, het Elise Mathilde Fonds, het Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds en het Carel Nengermanfonds, Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Stad Antwerpen, Dunya Verwey, Jurn Buisman, Roland Spek, de Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek, local organisers, managers and sacristans of all mentioned institutions and locations, and all volunteers. Please find a guide to ordering tickets online here: https://oudemuziek.nl/handleiding The Early Music Festival is president of REMA, Réseau Européen de la Musique Ancienne, the European dome organ in the field of early music, and member of the Utrecht Festival Counsel and the United Performing Arts Festivals. The Early Music Festival is assigned with the EFFE quality label of the European Festival Organisation.

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Organisation Director-manager: Xavier Vandamme Artistic adviser: Jed Wentz Business adviser & fundraising: Juliëtte Dufornee Planning: Eelke Bakker Editor: Susanne Vermeulen Production: Marijse Poutsma, Go Brûens, Nicolien van der Veer, Judith Heeres, Kayleigh Hagen, Lara Fernández Piqueras Ticket sales: Wilmer de Jong, Anna van der Weij, Vera Vos, Tamar Tarenskeen Marketing and communication: Jessica de Rooij Office: Judith Heeres Administrative office: Lynn Pham, Mark Achterstraat Organisatie Oude Muziek Plompetorengracht 4 3512 CC Utrecht

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Transport: Matthijs Kappers Tuners: Eduard Bos en Edwin Beunk Light: James Murray Office volunteers: Ellen Vogelenzang, Marjan Tesser, Mick Symonds, Mariëtte Koenders Coordination festival volunteers: Yvonne Postma Supervisory Board Organisatie Oude Muziek chairman: Johan van de Gronden member: Jan van der Tol RA Board Vrienden Oude Muziek chairman: Dick Hoek treasurer: Jan van der Tol RA member: Hans Tromp

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ONTDEK ONZE BIJZONDERE SERIE OUDE MUZIEK MET KORTING Reserveer vóór 1 juni uw abonnement en betaal slechts € 205,- (i.p.v. € 235,-). Na 1 juni zijn 1e rangskaarten los te koop à € 47,-. U kunt op drie manieren bestellen: ONLINE www.concertgebouw.nl/matinee TELEFONISCH Concertgebouwlijn 0900 6718345 (€ 1,00 per gesprek), dagelijks van 10-17 uur KASSA Maandag tot en met vrijdag geopend van 13-19 uur, zaterdag en zondag van 10-19 uur. Als er geen avondconcert is, sluit de kassa om 17 uur.

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Nederlandse Bachvereniging: een ‘keizerlijk’ componiste Nederlandse Bachvereniging Shunske Sato concertmeester De Rossi Il sacrifizio di Abramo (NP) 3 NOV 2018, 13.30 UUR

Hoe de opera Engeland veroverde: Blow en Purcell Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn dirigent Lucy Crowe sopraan Dame Sarah Connolly mezzosopraan Jonathan McGovern bariton Blow Venus and Adonis Purcell Dido and Aeneas 26 JAN 2019, 14.15 UUR

Uit Händels schaduw Ghislieri Choir & Consort Giulio Prandi dirigent Vivaldi Sonate ‘Al santo sepolcro’ D’Astorga Stabat Mater Bononcini Anthem for the funeral of the Duke of Marlborough Händel Dixit Dominus

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Sacraal entertainment: Kaïn en Abel B’Rock Orchestra René Jacobs dirigent Birgitte Christensen sopraan Kristina Hammarström mezzosopraan Olivia Vermeulen mezzosopraan Scarlatti Cain overo Il primo omicidio 20 APR 2019, 14.15 UUR

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Janine Jansen en het London Symphony Orchestra met het Vioolconcert van Sibelius

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Utrecht Early Music Festival

A SPECIAL THANK YOU We owe a big thank you to all persons and institutions that make the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2018 possible. We want to express an extra word of thanks for their substantial support to:

our subsidizers,

our main sponsors,

our project sponsors,

our partners,

and all our Friends: the Vrienden Oude Muziek

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