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Huelgas Ensemble

Festival Prelude: Paris 1200

About the performers

The Huelgas Ensemble, founded by Paul Van Nevel and named after the thirteenth-century Codex Las Huelgas, has for over forty years been one of the leading ensembles in the area of medieval and Renaissance music. The ensemble works with varying vocal and instrumental line-ups according to the requirements of the repertoire. The Huelgas Ensemble has given many memorable performances at the festival and has made more than a hundred recordings of music from the thirteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, for example Dufay, Brumel, de Rore, Richafort, de Kerle, Ferrabosco, Palestrina, Lassus and Ashewell. Since 2019, the Huelgas Ensemble organizes its own annual festival in the picturesque Burgundian village Talant.

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Programme

Anonymous 13th century
Acclamations ‘Laudes Regiae’ in honour of the French King Philippe August (1165-1223)

Leoninus 1150-c1201
Haec Dies

Anonymous c1260
O Maria maris stella (duplum) / O Maria dei cella (triplum) / O Maria virgo (quadruplum) / Veritate (tenor)

Anonymous c1250
Crucifigat omnes

Perotinus fl. 1207-1238
Viderunt omnes

Anonymous c1290
Cum apertam sepulturam

Anonymous c1250
Agnus Dei / Exultet hec concio

Anonymous c1250
Belial vocatur

Anonymous c1280
Homo miserabilis (duplum) / Homo luge fuge (triplum) / Brumans est mors (tenor)

Anonymous c1290
Balaam de quo vaticinans

Anonymous c1230 / Perotinus fl. c1200
Benedicamus Domino

Programme subject to change

Musicians

Dorothea Jakob, Helen Cassano, Helen Hughson cantus
Paul Bentley-Angell, Daniel Thomson, Loïc Paulin, Achim Schulz, Tom Philips tenor
Hidde Kleikamp baritone
Tim Scott Whiteley, Andrés Soler Castaño bassus

Paul Van Nevel musical direction