Utopia Ensemble
The pages of the richly illuminated Mechelen Choirbook come to life in a programme that runs from Lent to Easter, via Pierre de la Rue's ingenious Missa Paschale. In it, Margaret of Austria's favourite composer achieves the impossible: a polyphonic construction forged around two existing melodies. Utopia Ensemble frames de la Rue's contrapuntal tour de force with a selection of works by contemporaries Gaspar van Weerbecke, Josquin Desprez and Pierre Moulu.
Programme
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Gaspar Van Weerbeke
Tenebrae
before 1452-after 1517 -
Pierre de la Rue
Vexilla Regis / Passio Domino
c1452-1518 -
Plainchant
Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum
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Pierre de la Rue
Missa Paschale
Kyrie
Gloria -
Pierre Moulu
In pace. Si dedero somnum oculis meis
?1484-c1550 -
Pierre de la Rue
Missa Paschale
Credo -
Josquin Desprez
Victimae paschali laudes
c1450/55-1521 -
Pierre de la Rue
Missa Paschale
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Michaela Riener mezzo-soprano
- Bart Uvyn countertenor
- Adriaan De Koster tenor
- Lieven Termont bariton
- Guillaume Olry bas
