Psallentes & Frits van Oostrom
She wrote verses for God. Not tame prayers, but texts full of fire, longing, and ecstasy. Around 1250, the Brabant mystic Hadewijch gave words to a love that drives the soul to extremes: minne, courtly love. Psallentes connects her songs with the visionary music of that other medieval heroine, Hildegard von Bingen. Medievalist Frits van Oostrom is our guide through a world of spirituality and poetry, in which language and song elevate each other to an encounter with the ineffable.
With recitation in Dutch.
Programme
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Hadewijch van Brabant
Ay, al es nu die winter cout
13th century -
Hildegard von Bingen
Ordo virtutum
In principio1098-1179 -
Hadewijch van Brabant
Altoes mach men van minnen singhen
Alse ons dit nuwe jaer ontsteet
Al droevet die tijt en de die vogheline
Tsjaermeer ontspringhen ons de bloemen
Het sal de tijt ons naken sciere -
Hildegard von Bingen
O splendidissima gemma
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Hadewijch van Brabant
Ay, in welken soe verbaerd de tijt
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Frits van Oostrom storyteller
- Psallentes
- Sarah Abrams, Lisa De Rijcke, Sarah Van Mol, Veerle Van Roosbroeck soprano
- Barbara Somers mezzo-soprano
- Elisabeth Colson, Kerlijne Van Nevel, Clare Wilkinson alto
- Hendrik Vanden Abeele musical direction
