La Fonte Musica
Old music? New music? In Proverb, Steve Reich cheerfully throws that distinction overboard. With a text by Wittgenstein – a single thought, endlessly considered – and a wink at Leoninus, figurehead of the Notre-Dame school, he creates a sound world in which medieval organum and minimalism stubbornly mirror each other. Thirty years after the European premiere of Proverb at Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Reich’s sound lab returns, now accompanied by works from the era of the cathedral builders.
Programme
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Perotinus
Viderunt omnes
fl. 1207-1238 -
Ron Ford
Luccicare
*1959 -
Perotinus
Beata viscera
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Michele Pasotti
Il Crocomimosa
*1977 -
Perotinus
Alleluia: Nativitas gloriose virginis Mariae
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Anonymous
Deus misertus hominis
Paris c13th century -
Steve Reich
Proverb
Programme subject to change*1936
Musicians
- Michaela Riener soprano
- Joey Marijs vibraphone, glockenspiel
- Niels Meliefste vibraphone
- La Fonte Musica
- Francesca Cassinari, Alena Dantcheva soprano
- Massimo Altieri, Benjamin Hymas, Angelo Testori tenor
- Gianluca Ferrarini tenor, organ
- Michele Pasotti musical direction, tenor, organ
