Fabulous Fringe: Cappella Boanerges

Fabulous Fringe: Cappella Boanerges

This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2026.

Since 2024, Cappella Boanerges has been reintroducing traditional polyphonic repertoire into the Catholic Latin liturgy. The ensemble explores forgotten Vespers repertoire from choirbooks and partbooks, focusing on Deus in Auditorium, Benedicamus Domino and untexted polyphonic settings of psalm tones. During Advent and Lent, they celebrate Vespers featuring an anonymous polyphonic Magnificat from the ILVB 158 manuscript of the Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Multinational and diverse in confessional background, Cappella Boanerges welcomes all who are drawn to beauty, tradition and early music.

Programme

• Anonymous

  Veri floris sub figura
  (from: Magnus Liber Organi, MS Pluteus 29.1)

• Anonymous

  Deus in Auditorium
  (from: I-MOd MS Mus. XI, c1520/30)

• Plainchant

  Hymn: Beata Dei Genitrix

• Plainchant

  Antiphona: Nativitas gloriose (from: Codex Smijers, 1529-64)
  Psalmus 121 (122): Laetatus sum, falsobordone VIII toni (from: Lerma Codex, c1600)
  Antiphona: Nativitas gloriose

• Plainchant

  Antiphona: Nativitas est hodie (from: Codex Smijers)
  Psalmus 126 (127): Nisi Dominus, falsobordone VII toni (from: Lerma Codex)
  Antiphona: Nativitas est hodie (from: ILVB 158, ca. 1545)

• Plainchant

  Antiphona: Corde et animo (from: Codex Smijers)
  Canticum (Eph 1, 3-10): Benedictus Deus, cantus planu VIII toni
  Antiphona: Corde et animo (from: ILVB 158)

• Plainchant

  Lectio brevis (Rom 9, 4-5)
  Responsorium: Ave Maria (from: Codex Smijers)

• Plainchant

  Antiphona: Gloriosae Virginis Mariae ortum (from: Liber Antiphonarius, Solesmes, 1960)
  Magnificat I toni (#2) (from: ILVB 158)

• Plainchant

  Pater Noster
  Oratio

• Guillaume Dufay

  Benedicamus
  (from: I-Bc Q.15, c1440)
  
  Programme subject to change

  1397-1474

Musicians

• Prigje Zsófia, Carolina Andrade soprano
• Ernesto Schuddeboom, Filippo Zaccaria altus
• Constantin Heuer tenor
• Władysław Lech bass
• Daan Soare recorder
• Ismael Khalifi López sackbut
• Phoebe Pan viola
• Nitai Riello dulcian
• Artur Dobija musical direction