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Cappella Pratensis & Sollazzo Ensemble

The feast of the swan | 25 - 30 Nov 2024

Cappella Pratensis & Sollazzo Ensemble

The feast of the swan
That Brabanders are true Burgundians, that we already knew. But that 's-Hertogenbosch was once the epicentre of Low Countries music practice as well as gastronomy is less well known. The southern Dutch city with its abundance of churches and monasteries ('little Rome') possessed both a magnificent choir and a delicacy no less magnificent: the swan, the showpiece of the Illustrious Brotherhood of our Blessed Lady's annual banquet. With the Sollazzo Ensemble as its ‘marching band’, Cappella Pratensis invites you to a tasty return trip to the Renaissance.

Tournees 2024/2025

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Mon 25 Nov 2024 / 20.00 - Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg, Hertz
Wed 27 Nov 2024 / 20.00 - Amsterdam, De Waalse Kerk
Thu 28 Nov 2024 / 20.15 - 's-Hertogenbosch, Willem Twee Toonzaal
Fri 29 Nov 2024 / 20.00 - Almere, Goede Rede
Sat 30 Nov 2024 / 20.30 - Maastricht, Sint Janskerk

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About the performers

Cappella Pratensis, under its conductor Stratton Bull, is a vocal ensemble specializing in the performance of polyphonic masterpieces by composers including Josquin Desprez. The singers gather around a central music lectern and sing from a single choirbook. In 2022 the ensemble won the REMA-EEMN Heritage Project of the Year Award with the CD recording Apostola apostolorum. Capella Pratensis makes a priority of passing on its knowledge to both professionals and amateurs through masterclasses, workshops, and an annual summer course, and it trains young singers within the ensemble itself.

The Basel-based Sollazzo Ensemble had only existed since 2014 when less than a year later it had already won several prizes in the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. The ensemble led by vielle player Anna Danilevskaia focuses on medieval repertoire, although the musicians come from a variety of musical backgrounds - from early to contemporary music and even musicals.

Programme & Musicians

Cappella Pratensis
Tim Braithwaite, Andrew Hallock superius
Lior Leibovici altus
Peter de Laurentiis tenor
Marc Busnel bassus
Stratton Bull artistic direction

Sollazzo Ensemble
Filipa Meneses vihuela d’arco
Mara Winter flute
Christoph Sommer lute
Anna Danilevskaia artistic direction, vihuela d’arco

Antoine Brumel c1460-1512/13
Sicut lilium inter spinas

Gregoriaans / Jacobus Clemens non Papa c1510-1555/56
Ave Maria

Loyset Compère 1445-1518
Le grant désir d’aymer m’y tient

Benedictus Appenzeller c1480/88-after 1558
Missa Benedicti (‘Ick had een boelken uutvercoren’)
Kyrie
Gloria

Johannes Pullois ?-1478
Pour prinson instrumental

Alexander Agricola 1445/6-1506 / Johannes Ghiselin fl. 1491-1507
Duo instrumental

Jacob Obrecht 1457/58-1505
Regina caeli instrumental

Guillaume Dufay 1397-1474
Je veuil chanter instrumental

Tylman Susato c1510/15-1570
Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen

Jheronimus Vinders
Missa ‘Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen’
Sanctus

Loyset Compère
Dictes moy toutes voz pensées

Matthaeus Pipelare c1450-1515 / Pierre de la Rue c1452-1518
Een vroulic wesen instrumental

Benedictus Appenzeller ca. 1480/88-na 1558
Missa Benedicti (‘Ick had een boelken uutvercoren’)
Agnus Dei

Anoniem 16th century / Marc Busnel (music) & Eric Alink (new text)
Ick had een boelken / Oeverloos

Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Ave Maria

Programme subject to change

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