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MUSIC FROM THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC

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Venice streches the imagination on all fronts The story ofOp the city is almost implausible.

Venice was bornvan as a refuge zoek naar de oorsprong de against invaders, in the middle of an inaccessible area of marsh. But a virtue was made of necessity. The lack of raw materials literally forced the Venetians into the sea, where they proved to be masters of shipping. As a result, from the Middle Ages onwards the city was transformed from a settlement without prospects into a great trading nation with an aggressive colonial urge for expansion.

Locally the Republic was the laboratory of democracy such as we know it today, with complex mechanisms of participation and supervision. A false step on Venetian soil was severely punished. At the same time Venice was a place where more freedom existed than elsewhere in Europe. Instead of fortified castles, open and unprotected patricians’ homes arose along what has been described as the most chic street in Europe: the Grand Canal. And in this way the Venetian Republic sent into the world the image they most wished to propagate: that of La Serenissima, a dream of peace and luxury.

The musical history of Venice is not unrelated to the trading mentality and the quest for innovation that go along with it, starting with Petrucci, via Willaert and the Gabrielis to Cavalli and even Vivaldi. A display of power and ostentation? Certainly. But in Venice nothing is what it seems. The Venetian microcosm gives priority to imaginative thinking and genius, to colour and movement. And in this way Venetian music also surpasses the imagination.

Xavier Vandamme director

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Festival Schedule Fr 26 Aug

Sa 27 Aug

Mo 29 Aug

Tu 30 Aug

10.00-12.00 Dance workshop UCK

9.30-17.00 STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg 10.00-12.00 Dance workshop UCK

SS: Wouter Wagemakers SS: Olivier Lexa (I) TivoliVredenburg TivoliVredenburg

SS: Olivier Lexa (II) TivoliVredenburg

SS: Rosi Braidotti TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Masques TivoliVredenburg

Europa Galante TivoliVredenburg

Capriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

Collegium 1704 TivoliVredenburg

Marco Mencoboni Lutherse Kerk

David Van Bouwel Lutherse Kerk

Rinaldo Alessandrini Lutherse Kerk

Francesco Corti Lutherse Kerk

Michel Godard c.s.

Willibrordkerk

ClubMediéval Willibrordkerk

Les haulz et les bas Willibrordkerk

Micrologus Geertekerk

Scherzi Musicali Leeuwenbergh

Concerto Soave Geertekerk

Malgosia Fiebig (11.00)

Frans Haagen

Bob van der Linde (11.00)

Koen Cosaert

La Colombina Pieterskerk

Cappella Mariana Domkerk

Cinquecento Pieterskerk

Graindelavoix Domkerk

Gli Angeli Genève Geertekerk

Cappella Mediterranea TivoliVredenburg

Alex Potter c.s.

Geertekerk

Stefan Temmingh c.s.

TivoliVredenburg

Malgosia Fiebig (18.00u) Eventalk TiVre

Eventalk TiVre

Eventalk TiVre

Eventalk TiVre

Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

Artaserse TivoliVredenburg

Ghislieri Choir & Consort Collegium 1704 TivoliVredenburg TivoliVredenburg

L’Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble #Baroques TivoliVredenburg

Olga Pashchenko TivoliVredenburg

Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

9.30

11.00

13.00

15.00

16.00 17.00

18.30 20.00

22.30

24.00

Su 28 Aug

Dialogos TivoliVredenburg

Eugène Ferré TivoliVredenburg

Daily rhythm 9.30 uur: 11.00 uur: 13.00 uur: 15.00 uur:

Summer School Chamber Music Keyboard recital Medieval

16.00 uur: Carillon recital 17.00 uur: Renaissance & Baroque 18.30 uur: Eventalk

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20.00 uur: Big evening concerts 22.30 uur: Late evening concerts 24.00 uur: Midnight concert

We 31 Aug

Th 1 Sep

Fr 2 Sep

Sa 3 Sep

Su 4 Sep

12.00-18.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg

10.00-18.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg 11.00-16.30 IVWC TivoliVredenburg

10.00-17.00 Early Music Exhibition TivoliVredenburg 12.30-13.00 Opening Uitfeest TivoliVredenburg

9.30-17.00 STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg 10.00-12.00 Dance workshop UCK

10.00-17.00 IVWC TivoliVredenburg

SS: Fred Jacobs TivoliVredenburg

SS: Maartje van Gelder TivoliVredenburg

SS: Alexander Lingas TivoliVredenburg

SS: Francesco Fanna TivoliVredenburg

SS: Micky White TivoliVredenburg

Collegium Marianum TivoliVredenburg

Schayegh & Halubek Academiegebouw

Il Suonar Parlante TivoliVredenburg

Bosgraaf & Corti Geertekerk

Concerto Madrigalesco TivoliVredenburg

Carole Cerasi Lutherse Kerk

Javier Núñez Lutherse Kerk

Luca Guglielmi Lutherse Kerk

Reitze Smits Nicolaïkerk

Olga Pashchenko Leeuwenbergh

Les Flamboyants Leeuwenbergh

Ensemble Lucidarium Geertekerk

Cappella Romana Willibrordkerk

Ensemble Gilles Binchois Cappella Romana Pieterskerk Willibrordkerk Scorpio Collectief Geertekerk

Malgosia Fiebig

Wim Ruitenbeek

Jakob De Vreese

Malgosia Fiebig (11.00)

Malgosia Fiebig

Cantica Symphonia Pieterskerk

Nederlands Kamerkoor Pieterskerk

Officium Ensemble Pieterskerk

Les Basses Réunies Geertekerk

Huelgas Ensemble Domkerk

Auser Musici Geertekerk

Les Musiciens du Louvre Cantar Lontano Geertekerk TivoliVredenburg

Cappella Pratensis Jacobikerk

Le Banquet Céleste TivoliVredenburg

Eventalk TiVre

Eventalk TiVre

Eventalk TiVre

Eventalk TiVre

Eventalk TiVre

Concerto Palatino TivoliVredenburg

Vox Luminis & Capriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Correspondances TivoliVredenburg

Le Concert Spirituel TivoliVredenburg

Vox Luminis & L’Achéron TivoliVredenburg

Olga Pashchenko TivoliVredenburg

Cantar Lontano TivoliVredenburg

Ars Antiqua Austria TivoliVredenburg

Egüez & Mameli TivoliVredenburg

Mediaeval

Vivaldi & Galuppi

The Venetian School

Cavalli

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la serenissima The Republic of Venice, with its clear view of the Levant, has always been a breeding ground for innovative music. That music subsequently made its way across the whole of Europe. This is not as strange as it might seem: music printing was developed in Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century, making it possible for music to be disseminated on a much larger scale. Venice became a hub not only for merchandise, but also for music.

First we have the Renaissance, with the double choir element of the Venetian School, then the commercial opera of Francesco Cavalli, and finally the music of Vivaldi: with Venice as its theme, the Early Music Festival takes on the air of a Byzantine mosaic, such as we find in Venice, all colourful and shimmering. At the same time the Venice dossier poses huge questions about how we manage our cultural heritage nowadays, in an inspiring but also responsible manner. Permanent reconstruction is the order of the day for every contemporary Venetian: beauty and transience go hand in hand.

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Th e Ve n e t i a n S c h ool

adriaen willaert The term Venetian School is primarily used in reference to painting - with sixteenth-century masters such as the Bellinis, Carpaccio and Titian - but in music we also find a Venetian model that was internationally prominent.

Adriaen Willaert, born in the Flemish town of Rumbeke, near Roeselare, made a top career for himself as maestro di cappella of St Mark’s Basilica. Willaert’s work is exceptionally wide-ranging, and we plan to demonstrate that in this Festival. The best-known aspect of his work is his multi-choral style, in which different vocal and instrumental groups interact in a musical question and answer game. With this technique Willaert lays the foundation of the musical Venetian School, with in his wake composers such as the Gabrielis, De Rore, Merulo and later on Monteverdi. The technique became an important source of inspiration to European Early Baroque composers, and we see the richness of polychorality return with Sweelinck, Schütz and Bach.

Fr 26 Aug / 20.00 Gli Angeli Genève Sa 27 Aug / 13.00 Marco Mencoboni Sa 27 Aug / 15.00 Michel Godard c.s.

Sa 27 Aug / 17.00 La Colombina Sa 27 Aug / 17.00 Gli Angeli Genève Sa 27 Aug / 22.30 Ensemble #Baroques Su 28 Aug / 13.00 David Van Bouwel Su 28 Aug / 15.00 Concerto Soave Su 28 Aug / 17.00 Cappella Mariana Mo 29 Aug / 13.00 Rinaldo Alessandrini Mo 29 Aug / 17.00 Cinquecento Mo 29 Aug / 17.00 Alex Potter c.s.

Tu 30 Aug / 22.30 Gli Angeli Genève

We 31 Aug / 13.00 We 31 Aug / 17.00 We 31 Aug / 22.30 Th 1 Sep / 13.00 Th 1 Sep / 20.00

Fr 2 Sep / 17.00 Sa 3 Sep / 17.00 Sa 3 Sep / 20.00

Su 4 Sep / 15.00 Su 4 Sep / 17.00

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Carole Cerasi Cantica Symphonia Vox Luminis & L’Achéron Javier Núñez Vox Luminis & Capriccio Stravagante Officium Ensemble Cappella Pratensis Ensemble Correspondances Scorpio Collectief Huelgas Ensemble

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E a r l y Ve n e t i a n ope ra

francesco cavalli Venice is the place where the first commercial, universally accessible opera productions were staged, after the genre had developed initially in private academies and palaces in Florence and Mantua. Francesco Caletti, better known as Francesco Cavalli - he took the name of his patron Federico Cavalli - is the most significant protagonist in Venetian opera.

Along with Claudio Monteverdi, Cavalli was one of the great creative geniuses of the seventeenth century, and during his career, which spanned nearly sixty years, he composed more than 30 operas. For this Festival, Philippe Jaroussky, Christina Pluhar and Leonardo García-Alarcón have chosen their favourite Cavalli arias, and Concerto Palatino will present Cavalli’s Vespers, which are sometimes referred to as an alternative to Monteverdi’s Maria Vespers.

Sa 27 Aug / 20.00 Su 28 Aug / 9.30

Su 28 Aug / 17.00

Artaserse Summer school: Olivier Lexa Cappella Mediterranea

Tu 30 Aug / 20.00 L’Arpeggiata We 31 Aug / 20.00 Concerto Palatino Su 4 Sep / 15.00 Scorpio Collectief

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Fro m Hi g h Ba roq u e t o t h e G a l a nt St y l e

vivaldi and galuppi Nowadays Vivaldi is possibly the first name people will come up with if asked to think of a composer from the High Baroque era. But Vivaldi has only recently achieved this status. Unlike Bach and Handel, whose music has been uninterruptedly available, Vivaldi was in fact barely known outside academic circles until shortly before the Second World War. The story of the rediscovery of Vivaldi is too exciting not to recount, and his music continues to surprise. This also applies to his colleague Baldassare Galuppi, 30 years his junior. His music is clearly more courtly in character, although - stylistically the late Vivaldi comes pretty close. Indeed, following Vivaldi’s death, when his music almost immediately went out of fashion, some of his compositions were sold as music of the highly popular Galuppi, who could scarcely meet the demand for his music. How things can change…

Su 28 Aug / 11.00 Su 28 Aug / 20.00 Mo 29 Aug / 20.00 Tu 30 Aug / 11.00 Tu 30 Aug / 13.00 Tu 30 Aug / 17.00 We 31 Aug / 11.00 We 31 Aug / 17.00 Th 1 Sep / 11.00 Th 1 Sep / 17.00 Fr 2 Sep / 11.00 Fr 2 Sep / 13.00

Europa Galante Ghislieri Consort Collegium 1704 Collegium 1704 Francesco Corti Stefan Temmingh c.s.

Collegium Marianum Auser Musici Leila Schayegh Les Musiciens du Louvre Il Suonar Parlante Luca Guglielmi

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Sa 3 Sep / 9.30 Summer school: Francesco Fanna Sa 3 Sep / 13.00 Reitze Smits Sa 3 Sep / 17.00 Les Basses Réunies Ars Antiqua Austria Sa 3 Sep / 22.30 Su 4 Sep / 9.30 Summer school: Micky White Concerto Madrigalesco Su 4 Sep / 11.00 Su 4 Sep / 13.00 Olga Pashchenko Su 4 Sep / 15.00 Cappella Romana Su 4 Sep / 17.00 Le Banquet Céleste Su 4 Sep / 20.00 Le Concert Spirituel

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A r t i s t i n re s i de n ce

gli angeli genève We proudly present the Swiss ensemble Gli Angeli Genève as artist in residence. This ensemble of soloists, led by baritone Stephan Macleod, has over recent years set out a new course with their performances of seventeenthcentury Baroque repertoire.

The ensemble is composed of singers like Hana Blažíková, Alex Potter, Damien Guillon, Robert Getchell and Jan Kobow, who generally star as soloists with the major European Baroque ensembles. In Gli Angeli Genève their role changes: here they become part of a singers’ collective, and are thus able to present music they normally get little chance to perform.

Gli Angeli Genève’s residence is centred entirely around Johann Rosenmüller, one of those many German composers who moved to Venice because of its vibrant musical scene. Gli Angeli paints a portrait of Rosenmüller on the basis of large-scale festive psalm settings and some of the more intimate vesper psalms, plus expressive cantatas for two basses.

Gli Angeli Genève Fr 26 Aug / 20.00

Tu 31 Aug / 22.30

San Marco Vespers

Cantatas for two basses

Sa 27 Aug / 17.00 Intimate psalms

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A r t i s t i n re s i de n ce

olga pashchenko She may perhaps make a frail first impression, but don’t be fooled: as soon as she sits down at the keyboard, Olga Pashchenko transforms into a true keyboard lioness. Whether she’s playing harpsichord, organ or piano, she makes the sparks fly. During the festival Pashchenko will accompany the silent film Der Golem, play arrangements of Vivaldi’s works by Bach on the harpsichord, and give a fortepiano recital based around Mendelssohn’s Venice-inspired Lieder ohne Worte. Pashchenko will also provide music for the daily Eventalks.

This year the young Russian is our second artist in residence. That is something special, because in the field of early music Russia has long lagged behind.

That there is now considerable movement discernible in this area is due in part to the hard work, both in front of and behind the scenes, of Pashchenko’s teacher Alexei Lubimov.

Olga Pashchenko

27 Aug until 4 Sep / 18.30

Th 1 Sep / 22.30

Eventalk

Silent film: Der Golem (1920)

Su 28 Aug / 22.30

Su 4 Sep / 13.00

Venetian Lieder ohne Worte

Bach and Vivaldi

(Songs without words)

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Springboard for young talent

international van wassenaer competition Since its first edition in 1986, the International Van Wassenaer Competition has been giving a boost to early music ensembles and musicians at the start of their career. We feel honoured that the Early Music Festival was asked to host this renowned competition for the second time.

This year the international jury consists of Krijn Koetsveld (chairman), violinist Gunar Letzbor (Ars Antiqua Austria), harpsichordist and conductor Václav Luks (Collegium 1704), traverso player Jana Seméradová (Collegium Marianum), conductor Giulio Prandi (Ghislieri Consort) and harpsichordist Carole Cerasi.

Together they will judge the ten ensembles competing for a place in the final.

The participants are offered master classes which are also open to the public.

The six ensembles that make the finals will then compete not only for cash prizes but also for a concert tour during the Early Music Season.

The list of participants in the International Van Wassenaer Competition will be published at the beginning of June on www.oudemuziek.nl/concours.

Th 1 Sep / 10:00 to 17:00 Semi-final Sa 3 Sep / 11:00 to 16:30 Final TivoliVredenburg, Hertz Free admission In collaboration with the International Van Wassenaer Concours.

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STIMU-symposium 2016

reinventing a usable past The STIMU symposium entitled Reinventing a usable past uses Jewish early music as a metaphor for the music of ‘the others’: those who were not attached to the courts or to civil or ecclesiastical institutions which during the Middle Ages and early modern period functioned as centres of written documentation. The Venetian Ghetto, where Jews from Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Russia and Greece lived side by side, was a microcosm of the city surrounding it: La Serenissima was home to many nationalities. And although most of its residents were Roman Catholic, Venice was also a multi-religious centre, with communities of Greek Orthodox, Protestants and Muslims, and was to a certain extent a model for the multicultural society of today.

The symposium focuses on the paradoxes that arise during the study of the musical heritage of minorities. When we step outside the ‘magic circle’ of literate, Christian, European men, we are usually confronted with a scarcity of source material and a lack of musical notation. Any attempt to make this material performable, having first compared it with other sources or with musical traditions passed down orally, raises massive questions concerning authenticity.

With, among others, Tova Beeri (Tel Aviv University), Ruth F. Davis (University of Cambridge), Zehavit Stern (Oxford University) and Judith Cohen (York University).

Curator: Avery Gosfield (Oxford University) Language: English Location: TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine The complete programme can be found on oudemuziek.nl/symposium from 1 June With the support of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Fentener van Vlissingen Fund.

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500 years of the venetian ghetto In 1516, five hundred years ago, the Ghetto was founded in Venice. The Venetian Jews were forced to live together on a small island, the Ghetto Nuovo, and to identify themselves visibly when they left the Ghetto.

On September 1st we present three concerts on this theme, which sadly enough has lost none of its topicality. Ensemble Lucidarium reconstructs the soundtrack of Jewish life on the basis of texts from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and of the Venetian rabbi Leon Modena. The Nederlands Kamerkoor, conducted by Richard Egarr, sings psalms set to Hebrew melodies

by Benedetto Marcello, and artist in residence Olga Pashchenko accompanies Paul Wegener’s masterly silent film Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam from 1920, which tells of horrors and magic in the Prague Ghetto. The day begins with an introduction by Maartje van Gelder (University of Amsterdam) in the Summer School.

Th 1 Sep / 9.30

Summer School:

Th 1 Sep / 17.00

Nederlands Kamerkoor

Maartje van Gelder

Th 1 Sep / 22.30

Olga Pashchenko

Th 1 Sep / 15.00

Ensemble Lucidarium

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summer school The generously filled Summer School programme offers concise lectures, delivered in a fast, lively and yet in-depth manner, for anyone wishing to acquire more background knowledge concerning the Festival theme. The introductions are given by experts in the field, and are in Dutch or English.

Sa 27 Aug, 09.30 Wouter Wagemakers The architecture of Venice (Dutch)

Th 1 Sep, 09.30 Maartje van Gelder 500 years Ghetto in Venice (Dutch)

Su 28 Aug, 09.30 Olivier Lexa (I) Francesco Cavalli: Life and Work (English)

Fr 2 Sep, 09.30 Alexander Lingas Venice and the East (English) Sa 3 Sep, 09.30 Francesco Fanna Discovering Vivaldi (English)

Mo 29 Aug, 09.30 Olivier Lexa (II) The Demise of Venice? (English)

Su 4 Sep, 09.30 Micky White Myths around Vivaldi’s La Pietà (English)

Tu 30 Aug, 09.30 Rosi Braidotti Silk, Sex and Masks (English) We 31 Aug, 09.30 Fred Jacobs Huygens in Venice (Dutch)

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eventalks Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are once again, in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities, presenting a second series during this Festival. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music.

We are entrusting the spoken segment of the Eventalks to creative thinkers.

Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko provides the musical element: every day she will be playing historic keyboard instruments. Eventalk will thus combine a stimulating discourse with music, in the Hertz hall: a half-hour of stolen time, just before evening falls.

Sa 27 Aug / 18.30 Su 28 Aug / 18.30 Mo 29 Aug / 18.30 Tu 30 Aug / 18.30 We 31 Aug / 18.30 Th 1 Sep / 18.30 Fr 2 Sep / 18.30 Sa 3 Sep / 18.30 Su 4 Sep / 18.30

Harald Hendrix (Utrecht University, Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome) Rick Dolphijn (Universiteit Utrecht) Kiene Brillenburg Wurth (Universiteit Utrecht) Rosi Braidotti (Universiteit Utrecht) Rosemarie Buikema (Universiteit Utrecht) Leonard Rutgers (Universiteit Utrecht) Sandra Ponzanesi (Universiteit Utrecht) Paul Schnabel (Universiteit Utrecht) To be determined

In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Centre for the Humanities, Faculty of Humanities.

The Eventalks are part of Residenties Utrecht.

Free admission.

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carillon festival This year the Early Music Carillon Festival is taking place for the sixth time.

Carillon music will ring out over Utrecht city centre every day of the Festival, this year with a Venetian slant.

The carillon concerts take place in between the other Early Music Festival concerts. This means that carillon music accompanies you to your next concert location in the city – from the Geertekerk to the Willibrordkerk and from Leeuwenbergh to TivoliVredenburg. If you’d prefer to sit down to hear it, Flora’s Hof on the corner of the Dom Square and the Servetstraat is a good spot for listening. Those who want more comfort can pick up a voucher from the Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg, and use it to take advantage of a special offer at a restaurant near the Dom Tower.

Utrecht’s city carillonneur, Malgosia Fiebig, naturally plays a leading role in the Early Music Carillon Festival. Some prominent colleagues of hers are also involved, and young talent will be performing in the carillon fringe.

Curious to know just what happens up there in the Dom Tower during the carillon concerts? Then come and take a peek at Malgosia Fiebig on Saturday 27 August and Saturday 3 September. On Wednesday 31 August there is a children’s guided tour (6+).

The carillon voucher can be used at the Restaurant & Brasserie De Rechtbank (Korte Nieuwstraat 14).

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OPENING UITFEEST

jacob van eyck 3.0 Jacob van Eyck, the seventeenth-century recorder player and city carillonneur of Utrecht, is possibly the greatest son of Utrecht. During the opening of the Uitfeest we honour him with a musical production in the Grote Zaal in TivoliVredenburg. The Dutch recorder god Erik Bosgraaf embarks on a musical collaboration with sound artist Jorrit Tamminga and DJ DNA. Together they present a theatrical audio experience featuring the music of Jacob van Eyck.

Admission to this special concert in the Grote Zaal in TivoliVredenburg is free, and the concert marks the opening of the Uitfeest, the official starting shot of Utrecht’s cultural season.

Su 4 Sep / 12.30

Opening Uitfeest

In collaboration with Culturele Zondagen, Uitfeest, Cultuurpromotie Utrecht, Residenties Utrecht.

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Friday 26 August 18.00 Malgosia Fiebig

20.00 Gli Angeli Genève

Domtoren

TivoliVredenburg

18.45 Utrecht Bellringers Guild

Domtoren

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opening With kapellmeisters and organists such as Willaert, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi, the musical culture at St Mark’s Basilica had flourished. The Venetian School, the most remarkable aspect of which was its use of multiple choirs, was world famous. Many musicians and composers from abroad were drawn by this effervescent city of music.

Among these was Johann Rosenmüller. In 1658 he was appointed as trombonist at St Mark’s Basilica and would remain in Venice for nearly 25 years. Of all the ‘Tedeschi’ (Germans) who were attracted by this city, his music is the most thoroughly Italianized. By way of his music, influences from Italian music spread within Germany, and even Telemann cited Rosenmüller as an important example. The Swiss ensemble Gli Angeli Genève, artist in residence at this year’s Festival, has chosen to devote its residency exclusively to this composer.

Again this year the opening concert will be heralded with a carillon concert and the bells of the Domtoren.

18.00-18.45 18.45-19.00 20.00-22.00

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carillon concert by Malgosia Fiebig (Domtoren) bell ringing for the opening of the Festival (Domtoren) opening concert by Gli Angeli Genève (TivoliVredenburg, Large Hall) Serenissima Serenaders

The opening concert of the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2016 is made possible by support from the Turing Foundation and Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek.

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Fr 26 Aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 26 / € 10

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Vriendenconcert

Festive opening concert: San Marco Vespers

psalms from Rosenmüller’s oeuvre. By contrast, the beginning of the Laudate pueri is more like chamber music, though it then fans out to become a rich and complex whole. The Magnificat, with its double choir structure and thematic richness, is possibly the most colourful element of the programme.

It’s no wonder that in Germany Rosenmüller was called Alpha & Omega musicorum.

Gli Angeli Genève / Stephan MacLeod Gli Angeli Genève opens its residency with Johann Rosenmüller’s large-scale festive Vespers for choir and orchestra, as they might have sounded in the Basilica di San Marco. The majestic Dixit Dominus is one of the most extensive 33

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Saturday 27 August 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Scherzi Musicali

TivoliVredenburg

Leeuwenbergh

9.30 Summer School

Wouter Wagemakers

15.30 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 La Colombina 11.00 Fringe

Pieterskerk

various locations

17.00 Gli Angeli Genève 11.00 Ensemble Masques

Geertekerk

TivoliVredenburg

18.30 Eventalk 11.00 Malgosia Fiebig

TivoliVredenburg

Domtoren

19.30 Festival News 12.00 Utrecht Bellringers Guild

TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Artaserse

Church towers in the city centre

TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe 22.30 Ensemble #Baroques

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Marco Mencoboni

24.00 Eugène Ferré

Lutherse Kerk

TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe

various locations

15.00 Michel Godard & co Willibrordkerk

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Sa 27 Aug / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine € 5

Sa 27 Aug / 11.00

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TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Summer School: Wouter Wagemakers

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Ensemble Masques

The architecture of Venice

Albinoni unmasked

Why does St Mark’s Basilica strike us as so Byzantine? And why are there so many impressive palaces along Venice’s Grand Canal? Wouter Wagemakers is currently working on his doctorate in Italian architecture at the University of Amsterdam. In this Summer School he recounts the history of the top architectural sights in Venice.

Ironically enough Tomaso Albinoni has become most famous for ‘his’ Adagio, which is actually a 20th-century forgery

by Remo Giazotto. Today Ensemble Masques demonstrates that the real Albinoni is a master of chamber music.

The ensemble, which includes violinist Sophie Gent and harpsichordist Olivier Fortin, applies itself to his five-part sonatas.

Language: Dutch

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Sa 27 Aug / 11.00 Domtoren, Flora’s Hof free admission

Sa 27 Aug / 12.00

Malgosia Fiebig

Church towers in the city centre

Galuppi, Merula, Castello and Vivaldi on carillon

free admission

The sonata form came into being in the early years of the seventeenth century, as a new step in the coming of age of instrumental music. Tarquinio Merula and Dario Castello both played a crucial role in this development. City carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig plays their early ‘sonate concertate’, and by means of works by Galuppi illustrates to what extent the genre had changed a century later. In addition, Fiebig will strew a few arrangements of Vivaldi’s best-known flute concertos out over the city.

Utrecht Bellringers Guild Bell ringing and bell walks

The Utrecht Bellringers Guild literally (b)rings the bells of the entire city centre to life. It begins with all fourteen bells in the Domtoren, which can only be heard simultaneously a few times a year. Then bells in other churches join in, so that the bell music fans out over the entire city. At 12.15 two walks start from the Domplein, led by guides who keep a close track of the bell relay.

+ Have a peek at the carillon, in cooperation with Toerisme Utrecht.

This guided tour takes you to a height of 70 meters.

During the tour you can briefly visit the carillonneur to see her in action.

Start: 10.30, duration: 90 minutes.

Assemble: 10.15, entrance Domtoren, Domplein 21. € 10 per person, order number 03.

12.15: bell walks with guides, western and southern routes. Assemble on Domplein.

Free admission, but a limited number of participants.

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Sa 27 Aug / 15.00 Willibrordkerk € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Sa 27 Aug / 13.00

order number 06

Lutherse Kerk

Michel Godard & co

A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

An Egyptian in Venice

order number 05

Marco Mencoboni

What if in 1620 an Egyptian traveller and musician had come ashore in Venice, and subsequently met Claudio Monteverdi? Would they have got along with each other musically in terms of their improvisations, their harmony and ornamentation technique? Serpent player Michel Godard experiments on the basis of this scenario. With fellow musicians including the Egyptian Ihab Radwan and mezzo-soprano Guillemette Laurens, he explores the similarities between music from two different continents.

Claudio Merulo on the harpsichord

Harpsichordist and conductor Marco Mencoboni is without doubt one of the most creative minds on the early music scene of today. It’s not for nothing that he has chosen to play the music of Claudio Merulo, whose toccatas incorporate countless innovative miracles which were a source of inspiration to other great minds such as Frescobaldi and Sweelinck.

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Sa 27 Aug / 15.00 Leeuwenbergh € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Sa 27 Aug / 17.00

order number 07

Pieterskerk

Scherzi Musicali / Nicholas Achten

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Amorous dialogues by Sances

La Colombina / Josep Cabré

Giovanni Felice Sances, who later on in his life would score some great successes in the service of the Hapsburg emperor, spent a short time in Venice as a young man, composing mainly secular music.

Nicholas Achten, a man of many talents who leads his ensemble as singer, harpist, harpsichordist and lutenist, has chosen for this programme Sances’ love dialogues and mini-operas from this period. The ups and downs of young lovers, beset by villainous scoundrels and monsters, will leave no-one unmoved.

The world of Willaert

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 08

The Catalan baritone Josep Cabré chooses only the finest voices for his vocal ensemble La Colombina: Raquel Andueza, José Herhandez Pastor and Josep Benet. They sing intimate works

by Willaert, which may have been sung in private circles. Among these works by the master are French chansons, madrigal settings of texts from antiquity, and Italian villanelle alla napolitana.

Cabré completes his portrait of Willaert with motets and madrigals by his successors Cipriano de Rore, Andrea Gabrieli and Costanzo Porta.

Soloists: Deborah Cachet, soprano Reinoud Van Mechelen, tenor Nicholas Achten, baritone, harp, harpsichord

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Sa 27 Aug / 17.00 Geertekerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 09

Sa 27 Aug / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Gli Angeli Genève / Stephan MacLeod

free admission

Intimate psalms by Rosenmüller and Rigatti

Eventalk

Whereas artist in residence Gli Angeli Genève opened the festival with celebratory double choir splendour, in this second programme the ensemble goes in search of intimacy. The psalm settings by Rosenmüller and Rigatti, with their eight singers and ensemble of strings, may be on a smaller scale, but the music is no less ambitious. The name Rosenmüller scarcely needs any further introduction. Less well-known is his colleague Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, who worked at St Mark’s Basilica in the Doge’s Venice. The Nisi Dominus, built on a repeated bass motif of four descending notes, is a striking example of his expressive style.

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music.

Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards. Prof. Harald Hendrix (UU) speaks about Venetian freedom.

Admission to the Eventalks is free.

Language: Dutch In collaboration with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities.

Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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Sa 27 Aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 46 / € 38 / € 10

order number 10

Artaserse / Philippe Jaroussky

operas by Cavalli and contemporaries Cesti, Legrenzi, Steffani and Luigi Rossi.

Venice was the cradle of opera for the public at large, and following an initial experiment in 1637 the ‘dramma per musica’ soon grew to become a commercial success, with no-one more successful than Francesco Cavalli, with more than thirty productions to his name.

Cavalli and the early opera

‘The voice of an angel and as virtuosic as the devil’: Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor and world-class star, is finally returning to Utrecht. He has made a personal selection from his favourite 41

Sa 27 Aug / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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TivoliVredenburg, Festival Centre

Ensemble #Baroques / Laurent Stewart

free admission

Chiaroscuro: light and darkness in Venice

Every festival day / 19.30

Festival News

In sunlight Venice looks radiant, in fog melancholy prevails. This mystery has been a source of inspiration for many composers. Harpsichordist Laurent Stewart combines doleful Lamentos

by Strozzi and Fontei with sometimes dark, sometimes scintillatingly light sonatas by Castello, Rovetta, Rosenmüller and Legrenzi. The voice of the Czech mezzo-soprano Dagmar Šašková is pre-eminently suitable for the playful contact with this musical light.

AVROTROS Radio 4

During the Early Music Festival AVROTROS is broadcasting a daily news programme from the festival centre in TivoliVredenburg, with special reports and interviews with guests from the music world. The Festival News precedes the live broadcast of the Avondconcert on Radio 4 and admission is free. Maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of your favourite musician.

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A € 00 / € 00 / € 00

Sa 27 Aug / 24.00

B 00 /Aug € 00 -/ € Sa€ 27 Su00 4

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

TivoliVredenburg

€ 12 / € 10 / € 7

00 Sep / bestelnummer from 9.00 AM

order number 12

Eugène Ferré

Festival Centre

The lute books of Petrucci

Fancy a breather with a nice espresso or a glass of prosecco during the Festival? Then come to the Festival Centre in Tivoli/Vredenburg. The doors of the Music Centre opposite Utrecht Central Station open every day at 9 a.m. so that in between concerts you can have a quiet bite to eat or something to drink. You can also visit our Festival box office and the CD shop, as well as being able to attend live broadcasts of the Festival News.

In 1498 Ottaviano Petrucci obtained the right to print music in Venice.

Among his first publications were volumes of lute music by Spinacino, Dalza and Capirola. These three composers represent a revolution in lute playing: instead of a plectrum the fingers were used, which made polyphonic playing possible. Eugène Ferré explores this early repertoire by means of frottolas, tarantellas and lute arrangements based on popular Franco-Flemish models.

The central Festival box office and CD shop are open from 9.00 until 20.00.

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Sunday 28 August 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Concerto Soave

TivoliVredenburg

Geertekerk

9.30 Summer School

Olivier Lexa (I)

15.00 Venetian ball for children TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe 11.00 Fringe

various locations

various locations

16.00 Frans Haagen 11.00 Europa Galante

Domtoren

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Cappella Mariana 12.30 City walk:

Jacob van Eyck

Domkerk

Janskerkhof

17.00 Cappella Mediterranea TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe 18.30 Eventalk

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 David Van Bouwel

19.30 Festival News

Lutherse Kerk

TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe

20.00 Ghislieri Choir & Consort

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

15.00 ClubMediĂŠval

22.30 Olga Pashchenko

Willibrordkerk

TivoliVredenburg

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Su 28 Aug / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine € 5

Su 28 Aug / 11.00

order number 13

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Summer School: Olivier Lexa (I)

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 14

Francesco Cavalli: Life and Work

Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi

In 2014 Olivier Lexa, director of the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, devoted a biography to Francesco Cavalli: for the first time ever Cavalli’s life was recorded in as much detail as possible. He can rightly be described as one of the most important musicians of the seventeenth century. During a career that spanned almost sixty years he played a crucial role in the development of opera, and his achievements as kapellmeister at St Mark’s were of inestimable significance.

Vivaldi’s Trio Sonatas

In the nineties Europa Galante was the ensemble that championed the use of historical instruments for Vivaldi’s music. And how! The energetic, sometimes even slightly raw style of playing brought about a revolution, and went on to gain many followers.

In this programme of trio sonatas by Vivaldi, Legrenzi, Castello and Veracini, violinist Fabio Biondi and his fellow musicians prove that they’ve still got what it takes.

Language: English

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Su 28 Aug / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk

Su 28 Aug / 12.30-14.00

A € 18 / € 16 / € 10

City centre (assemble at Janskerkhof)

B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

€ 7 including lunch

order number 15

order number 16

David Van Bouwel

City walk: Jacob van Eyck

Double choir canzonas by Gabrieli

With Thiemo Wind

Jacob van Eyck (ca. 1590–1657) was the ‘Orpheus of Utrecht’: recorder player, city carillonneur, and bell expert. On the recorder he treated those strolling on the Janskerkhof to virtuosic variation, which have been handed down in Der Fluyten Lust-hof. The Van Eyck specialist Thiemo Wind leads you through Utrecht, and takes you to the places where this blind nobleman lived and worked.

Andrea Gabrieli and his nephew Giovanni, world famous as organists at St Mark’s Basilica, may rightly be deemed the first keyboard masters in Italy. Star harpsichordist David Van Bouwel explores their canzonas and toccatas as well as several compositions by Willaert and Mainerio, and he doesn’t do so alone: for a number of double choir pieces, genuine creations of the Venetian School, Van Bouwel enlists the help of his Italian colleague Marco Mencoboni.

12.15 assemble at the entrance to the Janskerk.

with the cooperation of Marco Mencoboni

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Su 28 Aug / 15.00 Su 28 Aug / 15.00

Geertekerk

Willibrordkerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 € 22 / € 19 / € 10

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 17

order number 18

ClubMediéval / Tomas Baeté

Concerto Soave / Jean-Marc Aymes

Venecie mundi splendor

Monteverdi and Strozzi

The doges of Venice were only too eager to show off their power and wealth. They built splendid palaces and surrounded themselves with ceremony.

Thomas Baeté’s ClubMédieval explores the Staatsmotetten (State Motets) composed by Francesco Landini, Johannes Ciconia and Antonius Romanus for ceremonial occasions, such as inaugurations and receptions. In 1415 Romanus, originally from Rome and the singing teacher of the eight choirboys of St Mark’s, supplied the first contribution to this repertoire in the form of the motet Ducalis sedes for Doge Tommaso Mocenigo.

The velvety vocal sound of the Argentinian soprano María Cristina Kiehr seems made for the repertoire of the early seventeenth century. Accompanied by the instrumentalists of the ensemble Concerto Soave under the direction of the French harpsichordist Jean-Marc Aymes, Kiehr sings Venetian repertoire written for both sacred and profane purposes. As well as the solo motets of Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi’s magnificent Serenata can also be heard.

Soloist: María Cristina Kiehr, soprano

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Su 28 Aug / 15.00 TivoliVredenburg â‚Ź 10

Su 28 Aug / 16.00

order number 19

Domtoren, Flora’s Hof

Venetian ball for children

free admission

Dance workshop with Rachel Farr

Frans Haagen Just imagine: in your finest costume and wearing the mask you have decorated yourself, you glide across the dance floor at a genuine Venetian ball. This is the chance you’re offered during the coming festival. In a dance workshop given by Rachel Farr you learn to dance like a real Venetian lady or gentleman. Come dressed as a princess, a pirate or a magician, make your own mask, and get dancing!

Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Galuppi and Paradies on carillon

Frans Haagen, city carillonneur of Kampen and Zutphen, plays a varied Venetian programme. This includes works from the Early Baroque by Giovanni Gabrieli and a certain Domenico Gabrieli, and works by Vivaldi and Galuppi from the Late Baroque.

Haagen also introduces music by the 18th-century Domenico Paradies, who proved a failure as an opera composer, but wrote keyboard sonatas which display genuine workmanship.

For children between 6 and 12 years old.

Note for parents: register in advance at the information desk in the Festival Centre.

Price of admission includes lemonade and handicraft materials.

The workshop lasts ca. 60 minutes.

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Su 28 Aug / 17.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Su 28 Aug / 17.00

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

Domkerk

Cappella Mediterranea

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 21

order number 20

Cavalli: Teatro dei Sensi

Cappella Mariana / Vojtech Semerád

The opening of the Teatro San Cassiano in 1637 is a key moment in the history of opera. The genre undergoes a transformation: from being a private matter for aristocrats it becomes entertainment for all. And the audience has to be able to identify with the personages. From now on the gods will share the stage with kings and courtesans, with wet nurses, servants and, of course, lovers. In his operas Francesco Cavalli evokes a fascinating image of this ‘theatre of life’, in which human passions form the leitmotiv.

Cappella Mediterranea, tried and tested in Italian Baroque, take the audience on a journey through this universe.

Claudio Merulo: Susanne un jour

Cappella Mariana is our guest again this year, and for the best reason imaginable: during recent festival editions this Czech ensemble has impressed us with its fresh style of music-making in combination with a perfectly balanced sound. Today the men of the ensemble turn their attention to Claudio Merulo, who held the post of organist at St Mark’s. He became known primarily for his instrumental music, but he also wrote vocal works. These included motets and a mass which was based on the popular chanson Susanne un jour by Orlandus Lassus.

Soloists: Mariana Flores, soprano Anna Reinhold, soprano

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Su 28 Aug / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz free admission

Eventalk Every festivalday / 19.30 TivoliVredenburg, Festival Centre

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards. Today Rick Dolphijn speaks about Venice and the East. Admission to the Eventalks is free.

free admission

Festival News AVROTROS Radio 4

During the Early Music Festival AVROTROS is broadcasting a daily news programme from the festival centre in TivoliVredenburg, with special reports and interviews with guests from the music world. The Festival News precedes the live broadcast of the Avondconcert on Radio 4 and admission is free. Maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of your favourite musician.

Language: Dutch In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen and Centre for the Humanities. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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Su 28 Aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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Ghislieri Choir & Consort / Giulio Prandi

star, and sometimes Vivaldi’s compositions were even sold under his name, the Dixit Dominus being the most striking example of this. Whether this fast-change trick actually worked remains the question, since Vivaldi’s High Baroque style of composing clearly contrasts with Galuppi’s clear, Early Classical style. But judge for yourself: the specialists in this repertoire, the Ghislieri Consort & Choir under the direction of the flamboyant Giulio Prandi, present grand psalm settings for choir and orchestra by Vivaldi and Galuppi.

Vivaldi and Galuppi

When ‘Italian Baroque’ is mentioned, people these days immediately think of Vivaldi. It is therefore hard to imagine that after his death the name and the music of ‘the red priest’ instantly sank into obscurity, not to be rediscovered until late on in the 20th century. Following Vivaldi’s death in 1741, Baldassare Galuppi immediately became the big 52

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Su 28 Aug / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 18 / € 16 / € 10

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order number 23

Olga Pashchenko Venetian Lieder ohne Worte

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‘The gondoliers call to each other, their lights create deep reflections in the water. One of them is playing the guitar and singing. This is a merry night!’ Felix Mendelssohn wrote this in 1830, during a visit to Venice. On a historic piano, artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will play the Lieder ohne Worte which Mendelssohn composed following his visit, plus a barcarolle by Glinka and works by Liszt, including the mysterious La Lugubre Gondola.

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Monday 29 August 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Les haulz et les bas

TivoliVredenburg

Willibrordkerk

9.30 Summer School

Olivier Lexa (II)

15.30 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Alex Potter & co 10.00 Workshop

Renaissance dance

Geertekerk

UCK

17.00 Cinquecento Pieterskerk

11.00 Fringe

18.30 Eventalk

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Capriccio Stravagante 19.30 Festival News

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Bob van der Linde 20.00 Collegium 1704

Domtoren

TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe 22.30 Dialogos

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Rinaldo Alessandrini

Lutherse Kerk

14.00 Fringe

various locations

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Mo 29 Aug / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine

Mo 29 Aug / 10.00-12.00 € 5

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten

order number 24

€ 25

Summer School: Olivier Lexa (II)

order number 25

Workshop Renaissance dance

The Demise of Venice?

With Rachel Farr

The pomp and splendour of Venice is under threat. The city is subsiding, the water is rising, and the hordes of tourists grow ever larger by the year.

Cruise ships tower surrealistically tall above the Doge’s Palace. Ever since the sixteenth century Venice has been a tourist attraction, and the city has always offered enjoyment, not only to sailors and merchants, but also to travelling aristocrats. The ‘Las Vegas’ of Italy? Olivier Lexa, director of the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, talks about the paradox: how the sorely needed tourism could at the same time mean the downfall of this city.

During the Renaissance Italy was a leading figure in the field of dance.

Italian dance masters were sought after throughout Europe, and thanks to Venetian typography Italian dances became popular everywhere. The Venetian theme is an ideal moment to dive into the world of Renaissance dance, following the success of Baroque Dance workshops during previous Festival editions. Today Rachel Farr introduces you to the Italian balletto, and you can learn the dance steps of the Laura Suave according to the formula prescribed by dance master Fabritio Caroso.

Language: English

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Mo 29 Aug / 11.00 Domtoren, Flora’s Hof

Mo 29 Aug / 11.00

free admission

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Bob van der Linde

order number 26

Carillon fringe: Bach and Vivaldi

Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempé

The young carillonneur Bob van der Linde studies organ and church music with Reitze Smits and Mark Lippe in Utrecht, and carillon with Frans Haagen and Gijsbert Kok at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort. In 2015, at the International Carillon Competition in Goes, he won first prize in the category carillonneurs without diploma.

Van der Linde is organist of the Anglican Church in Zwolle and of the Marcuskerk in Utrecht. Today in the carillon fringe he will play canzonas by Giovanni Gabrieli, works of Vivaldi and Bach’s arrangement of Vivaldi’s Concerto RV 522.

Sonata’s, canzona’s, balli

You may have to get up early for this Monday morning concert, but it will be more than worth the effort: Skip Sempé and his ensemble are playing dance-like canzonas and sonatas by Marini, Cavalli, Rosso, Merula and contemporaries. Chamber music of an enchanting purity, from an age in which musical forms still lay totally open. It was springtime in the world of instrumental music!

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Mo 29 Aug / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

order number 27

Mo 29 Aug / 15.00 Willibrordkerk

Rinaldo Alessandrini The Gabrielis at the keyboard

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 28

Les haulz et les bas

Few harpsichordists manage to elicit so much colour and energy from their instrument as Rinaldo Alessandrini does.

Today he will exhibit these qualities with seldom heard canzonas and ricercares from the oeuvres of uncle Andrea and nephew Giovanni Gabrieli. Both gentlemen held the post of organist at St Mark’s Basilica, and their reputation extended far beyond Italy’s borders.

Alessandrini, whom we also know as musical director of Concerto Italiano, has added works by Giovanni Picchi to the programme.

Zorzi Trombetta and the Doge’s wind band

Zorzi Trombetta began his career as a trumpeter on a Venetian galleon and went on to form I Piffari del Doge – the Doge’s official wind ensemble – and to become the spiritual father of an entire dynasty of Venetian trombonists. The specialists in this repertoire, Les haulz et les bas, transport us to the world of this Trombetta and of the 15th-century alta cappella.

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Mo 29 Aug / 17.00

Mo 29 Aug / 17.00

Geertekerk

Pieterskerk

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / 10

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 order number 29

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 30

Alex Potter & co

Cinquecento

Cantatas by Legrenzi and Rovetta

Willaert : Eccelentissimo Adriano

Two 17th-century maestri di cappella of St Mark’s Basilca play a major role in this concert: Giovanni Legrenzi and Giovanni Rovetta. Their music was known and loved throughout Europe, thanks to their prestigious position and the fact that their compositions appeared in print. Accompanied by seven instrumental virtuosi, Alex Potter sings sacred cantatas by both masters. These are interspersed with instrumental sonatas from the same period.

Vocal ensemble Cinquecento paints a musical portrait of Adriaen Willaert with a performance of his masterly Missa Mente tota. After apprenticeships with Josquin and Mouton in his FrancoFlemish fatherland, Willaert moved to Italy, where he would become the founder of the illustrious Venetian School. As well as the mass, the gentlemen of Cinquecento sing a moving lamento composed by Alvise Willaert on the death of his famous uncle.

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Mo 29 Aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

order number 31

Collegium 1704 / Václav Luks

artistic liberties than his colleagues. As well as his dramatic cantata Arianna abbandonata, you can hear a selection from his best-known work: psalm settings based on Hebrew melodies. From the oeuvre of Legrenzi, kapellmeister at St Mark’s, Václav Luks has chosen vesper psalms including a Laudate Pueri and a Nisi Dominus, plus the cheerful Magnificat. Collegium 1704 alternates these with works by Albinoni, Pallavicino and Lotti.

Legrenzi and Marcello

Václav Luks and his Collegium 1704 are familiar faces at the Early Music Festival. This time, in a colourful Venetian programme, the Czechs place the secular and sacred music of Benedetto Marcello and Giovanni Legrenzi side by side. Marcello belonged to Venetian nobility and as an ‘amateur composer’ could allow himself to take more

Soloist: Silvia Frigato 60

Mo 29 Aug / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz free admission

Eventalk free admission

Mo 29 Aug / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. There will be a different speaker each day. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards. Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth (UU) speaks about Satire and boredom.

Admission to the Eventalks is free.

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 32

Dialogos / Katarina Livljanić Judith of Bethulia

In a hypnotising musical monodrama, singer Katarina Livljanić tells the story of Judith of Bethulia, the Biblical widow who defeats Holofernes in order to save her people. Accompanied by flutes and Croatian stringed instruments, Livljanić re-creates the 16th-century epic by the Dalmatian poet Marko Marulić, who, as a Croat, was born in the Venetian Republic.

Language: Dutch In cooperation with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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Tuesday 30 August 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Micrologus

TivoliVredenburg

Geertekerk

9.30 Summer School

Rosi Braidotti

15.30 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Koen Cosaert 9.30 STIMU-symposium

Domtoren

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Graindelavoix

Domkerk

10.00 Workshop

Renaissance dance

17.00 Stefan Temmingh & co

UCK

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe

18.30 Eventalk

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Collegium 1704 TivoliVredenburg

19.30 Festival News TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe TivoliVredenburg

20.00 L’Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Francesco Corti

Lutherse Kerk

22.30 Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe

various locations

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Tu 30 Aug / 9.30

Tu 30 Aug / 10.00-12.00

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten

€ 5

order number 33

€ 25

order number 34

Summer School: Rosi Braidotti

Workshop Renaissance dance

Silk, Sex, and Masks

With Rachel Farr

In the trade-orientated Republic of Venice, women – including courtesans – played a crucial role, above all during Carnival festivities, when their masked faces became a symbol of anonymity and transgression. In this Summer School Rosi Braidotti (Centre for the Humanities, University of Utrecht) examines how masks still play a role in today’s protest movements.

During the Renaissance Italy was also a leading figure in the field of dance.

Italian dance masters were sought after throughout Europe, and thanks to Venetian typography the fame of Italian dances spread rapidly. Following the success of the Baroque Dance workshops over recent years, this Venice Festival is therefore a good time to dive deeper into the world of Renaissance dance. Today: the galliard and saltarello.

Language: English

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Tu 30 Aug / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk

Tu 30 Aug / 11.00

A € 18 / € 16 / € 10

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

order number 36

order number 35

Francesco Corti Collegium 1704 / Václav Luks

Galuppi at the harpsichord

Vivaldi: Chamber concertos

Baldassare Galuppi was famous as a keyboard virtuoso. His contemporaries were stupefied by his fiery playing. His musical legacy no longer receives the recognition it deserves, and this applies in particular to his keyboard works.

Francesco Corti, prize-winner at keyboard competitions in Leipzig and Bruges, would like to break a lance for him. Galuppi’s Early Classical style is elegant and full of bravura. For this reason Corti considers Hasse and Domenico Scarlatti his kindred spirits.

They’re purebred musicians, the instrumentalists of Collegium 1704.

In this morning concert they are playing concertos by Vivaldi, in various formations (with traverso, oboe, violin and basso continuo) and with diverse atmospheres. Let no-one claim that ‘the red priest’ composed the same concerto hundreds of times. Vivaldi fans know better…!

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Tu 30 Aug / 15.00 Geertekerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

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Micrologus / Patrizia Bovi

Tu 30 Aug / 16.00

Carnivalesque

free admission

Domtoren, Flora’s Hof

Koen Cosaert

Many stock characters from the commedia dell’arte appear in 15th-century frottolas and villottas, including the soldier Scaramella, the lovers Giannolo and Rosina and the unhappy housewife Ramacina. These figures appeared during the intermezzi in comedies and tragedies. The intermezzi, often filthy and satirical, were popular at the major courts. Micrologus presents various scenes containing universal moments of betrayal, despair and all-conquering love.

Willaert and Galuppi on carillon

Koen Cosaert is the director of the Royal Carillon School ‘Jef Denyn’ in Mechelen. Since 1987 he has taught carillon, campanology and harmony at the School. In this concert Cosaert combines works by Adriaen Willaert, including ricercares and canzonas, and arrangements of organ concertos by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni.

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Tu 30 Aug / 17.00

Tu 30 Aug / 17.00

Domkerk

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Stefan Temmingh La Folia Barockorchester / Robin Peter Müller

Graindelavoix / Björn Schmelzer A Cypriot vesper

Vivaldi’s virtuosic recorder concertos

Before Cyprus was ceded to Venice in the 15th century, it was ruled by kings from the French dynastic family Lusignan. As part of their retinue French composers also came to the island, and left their compositions behind. Björn Schmelzer, known for his much talked-about concerts and performances, has reconstructed some 15th-century vespers on the basis of the Cypriot manuscript Torino J.II.9 and Greco-Byzantine hymns.

Vivaldi composed a number of very virtuosic concertos for recorder, for both the alto and the sopranino (‘flautino’). The young South African recorder player Stefan Temmingh, who lives in Munich, is able to bend these concertos to his will, with bravura.

An exciting concert of the highlights from Vivaldi’s oeuvre for recorder and orchestra, including the diabolically difficult Concerto in C minor.

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Tu 30 Aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 46 / € 38 / € 10

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L’Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar

force behind the developments in this field. Every one of his more than thirty operas is a miracle of musical ingenuity. Christina Pluhar has selected the finest arias, including La Calisto and La Didone, and is bringing with her not only her orchestra, with extensive continuo, but also a trio of terrific sopranos.

Cavalli: L’Amore innamorato

Although Cavalli was a church musician at St Mark’s for almost sixty years, he acquired his greatest fame – and fortune – from his operas. He was even able to treat himself to a palazzo on the Grand Canal. When in 1639 Cavalli composed his first opera, the genre was relatively young, but he recognized its potential and became the driving

Soloists: Nurial Rial, soprano Francesca Aspromonte, soprano Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo-soprano This concert has no interval and lasts ca. 90 min.

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Tu 30 Aug / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Gli Angeli Genève / Stephan MacLeod

Tu 30 Aug / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Rosenmüller: cantatas for two basses

free admission

Eventalk

Gli Angeli Genève rounds off its time as artist in residence with Early Baroque cantatas from the German and Italianspeaking regions. The cantatas were written for the rare combination of two bass voices, strings and continuo. The rich musical culture of Venice worked like a magnet on composers from Germany, and many went there to study.

One of them, Heinrich Schütz, the ‘father of German music’, did indeed transform the music from north of the Alps. Stephan MacLeod and his fellow musicians perform expressive cantatas

by Schütz, Tunder, Biber, Legrenzi and Merula, and it goes without saying that they give special prominence to Johann Rosenmüller, the particular focus of their stint in residence.

free admission

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. There will be a different speaker each day. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards. Prof. Rosi Braidotti (UU) speaks about her birthplace Venice. Admission to the Eventalks is free.

Language: English In collaboration with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities.

Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

Soloists: Benoît Arnould, bass Stephan MacLeod, bass

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Wednesday 31 August 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Les Flamboyants

TivoliVredenburg

Leeuwenbergh

9.30 Summer School

Fred Jacobs

15.30 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig 9.30 STIMU-symposium

Domtoren

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Cantica Symphonia 10.00 Workshop

Renaissance dance

Pieterskerk

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17.00 Auser Musici Geertekerk

11.00 Fringe

18.30 Eventalk

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Collegium Marianum 19.30 Festival News

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe 20.00 Concerto Palatino

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Carole Cerasi

22.30 Vox Luminis & L’Achéron

Lutherse Kerk

14.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

various locations

14.00 Children’s workshop –

making masques TivoliVredenburg

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We 31 Aug / 9.30 We 31 Aug / 10.00-12.00

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine

Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten € 5

order number 42 € 25

Summer School: Fred Jacobs

order number 43

Workshop Renaissance dance

Huygens in Venice

With Rachel Farr

In 1620 Constantijn Huygens visited Venice as part of a group of diplomats.

He kept a detailed diary of his entire journey. Huygens was present at a service of vespers, with the music directed by no less a person than Monteverdi himself: ‘the most perfect music’, Huygens wrote lyrically. With the help of the diary Fred Jacobs introduces you to the highlights of Huygens’ journey: through the eyes and ears of a devotee.

During the Renaissance Italy was also a leading figure in the field of dance. Italian dance masters were sought a fter throughout Europe, and thanks to Venetian typography the fame of Italian dances spread rapidly. Following the success of the Baroque Dance workshops over recent years, this Venice Festival is therefore a good time to dive deeper into the world of Renaissance dance. Today: Fabritio Caroso’s canary, from his Nobiltà di Dame.

Language: Dutch

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We 31 Aug / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk

We 31 Aug / 11.00

A € 18 / € 16 / € 10

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

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Carole Cerasi Between republic and absolute monarchy:

Collegium Marianum / Jana Semerádová

Storace and D’Anglebert

Galuppi’s concertos

From boundless subtlety to terrific virtuosity: harpsichordist Carole Cerasi coaxes from her instrument every possible gradation between light and dark.

In this recital she juxtaposes Bernardo Storace and Jean Henry D’Anglebert.

In 1689 D’Anglebert, in the service of Louis XIV, published his monumental Pièces de clavecin, a milestone in refined French repertoire. Absolutely nothing is known about Storace. His volume of variations Selva di varie appeared in Venice and is the sole known source of his work.

Galuppi’s definition of good music – vaghezza, chiarezza e buona modulazione (beauty, clarity and good modulations) – is certainly illustrated in his own concertos, in which Galuppi deftly deals with being on the borderline between Baroque and Classical. Collegium Marianum from Prague places concertos by Vivaldi alongside others by the Czech composer Frantisek Jiránek. Jiránek studied in Venice and was clearly inspired by Vivaldi.

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We 31 Aug / 15.00 Leeuwenbergh € 22 / € 19 / € 10

We 31 Aug / 14.00-15.30

Les Flamboyants / Michael Form

TivoliVredenburg € 7

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Petrucci’s Harmonice Musices Odhecaton

Children’s workshop – making masks

The year 1501 marks a revolution in the history of music: in Venice Ottaviano Petrucci published his Odhecaton, the first printed music collection for which a new technique of notation using separate typeset letters was applied. Thanks to this invention the art of music printing developed rapidly, resulting in the double-quick distribution of repertoire throughout Europe.

Petrucci chose to print polyphony by Franco-Flemish composers such as Josquin, Obrecht and Busnois, which also became popular with instrumentalists.

Les Flamboyants have made a selection from this 15th-century Top 100.

For children between 6 and 11 years old

Do you want to celebrate the Carnival of Venice with us during the coming Early Music Festival? The inhabitants of Venice wore their often richly decorated masks not only during the many festivities, but anyone who wished to remain anonymous could also hide behind a mask. In this workshop you will decorate your own mask so that you will look like a Venetian nobleman or noblewoman.

Note for the parents: register in advance at the information desk in the Festival Centre.

The workshop will last ca. 45 minutes

Soloist: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, mezzo-soprano

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We 31 Aug / 17.00 Pieterskerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10

We 31 Aug / 16.00

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Domtoren, Flora’s Hof

order number 49

Cantica Symphonia / Giuseppe Maletto

free admission

Malgosia Fiebig

The Sacrae cantiones by Andrea Gabrieli

From the Marcello brothers to Bach

Andrea Gabrieli, an uncle of the great Giovanni Gabrieli, published his volume titled Sacrae Cantiones in 1565, at about the same time that he was appointed organist of St Mark’s. He clearly drew his inspiration from Lassus, who three years earlier had produced comparable works. A striking aspect of the Sacrae Cantiones is the close connection between the music and the textual content. Cantica Symphonia, who for more than twenty years now have been an authority when it comes to Italian Renaissance polyphony, are keen to haul Andrea out of the shadow of his slightly better-known nephew Giovanni.

Alessandro and his brother Benedetto Marcello were dilettantes in the original sense of the word: coming from a noble family, they didn’t need to rely on music to provide them with a living. But don’t underestimate their compositional qualities. No less a person than Johann Sebastian Bach arranged concertos by both brothers for keyboard. Those arrangements and other works by the Marcellos can be heard today on the carillon. + Children’s tour.

Start: 14.15, duration 90 minutes.

Assemble at the VVV, Domplein 9. € 10 per person, order number 47.

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We 31 Aug / 18.30

We 31 Aug / 17.00

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Geertekerk

free admission

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

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Eventalk Auser Musici / Carlo Ipata

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. There will be a different speaker each day. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards. Prof. Rosemarie Buikema (UU) speaks about Gender, Art and transitional Justice in Venice. Admission to the Eventalks is free.

Francesco Gasparini: from Il Bajazet

Auser Musici pays homage to Francesco Gasparini. Not only was he musical director of the Ospedale della Pietà and the person who appointed Vivaldi, but his own oeuvre, which is mainly in the music theatre area, is very worthwhile.

Last year Gasparini’s opera Il Bajazet, the centrepiece of this programme, was recorded in its entirety for the first time,

by Auser Musici. Together with the renowned soprano Roberta Invernizzi, the ensemble presents arias from this and other operas by Gasparini: bel canto from the 18th century.

Language: Dutch In collaboration with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities.

Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

Soloist: Roberta Invernizzi, sopraan

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Concerto Palatino / Bruce Dickey

how little sacred music of his has been passed down. Concerto Palatino compiled these vespers from his grand psalm settings, which display all the popular techniques of the time: from double choir formations and choral declamation to the most expressive operatic techniques. Instrumental concertos and canzonas bind the vocal works together to produce an experience that in terms of musical splendour holds its own with the famous Maria Vespers of Monteverdi.

Cavalli’s Vespers

In the festival of 1991 Concerto Palatino staged the Vesper Psalms of Cavalli for the first time. It was a sensation. Since then Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet’s ensemble has been regarded as preeminent in this repertoire. Given the fact that Cavalli’s career at St Mark’s spanned sixty years, it is remarkable 77

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Every festival day / 19.30

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

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TivoliVredenburg, Festival Centre

Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier L’Achéron / François Joubert-Caillet

free admission

Festival News AVROTROS Radio 4

Legrenzi in consort

During the Early Music Festival AVROTROS is broadcasting a daily news programme from the festival centre in TivoliVredenburg, with special reports and interviews with guests from the music world. The Festival News precedes the live broadcast of the Avondconcert on Radio 4 and admission is free. Maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of your favourite musician.

Two phenomenal ensembles join forces for an intimate concert. The five viols of the French ensemble L’Achéron and eight singers from Vox Luminis place the Salve Regina of Sances and the dramatic Dies Irae of Legrenzi alongside the extraordinarily beautiful passacaglias, sinfonias and sonatas of Legrenzi and Biagio Marini.

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Early Music Season

Fancy a breather with a nice espresso or a glass of prosecco during the Festival? Then come to the Festival Centre in TivoliVredenburg. The doors of the Music Centre opposite Utrecht Central Station open every day at 9 a.m. so that in between concerts you can have a quiet bite to eat or something to drink. You can also visit our Festival box office and the CD shop, as well as being able to attend live broadcasts of the Festival News.

Once the Festival is over, will you just crave even more early music? No need to panic, because the Early Music Festival is traditionally followed by the Early Music Season. Between October and May seventeen top ensembles will be performing at venues all over the Netherlands and beyond (Belgium, France and Italy.) There will be concerts featuring, among others, Marco Beasley, Europa Galante and Cappella Mariana, and then there is also Vivaldi Day! For more information consult oudemuziek.nl/seizoen.

The central Festival box office and CD shop are open from 9.00 until 20.00.

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Thursday 1 September 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Ensemble Lucidarium

TivoliVredenburg

Geertekerk

9.30 Summer School

Maartje van Gelder

15.30 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Wim Ruitenbeek 10.00 International Van

Wassenaer Competition

Domtoren

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Nederlands Kamerkoor Pieterskerk

11.00 Fringe

17.00 Les Musiciens du Louvre

various locations

Geertekerk

11.00 Leila Schayegh

& Jörg Halubek

18.30 Eventalk

Academiegebouw

TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe

19.30 Festival News

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Javier Núñez

20.00 Vox Luminis &

Capriccio Stravagante

Lutherse Kerk

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 A Guide to

Early Music

22.30 Olga Pashchenko

TivoliVredenburg

various locations

14.00 Fringe

various locations

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Th 1 Sep / 10.00-17.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Th 1 Sep / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine € 5

free admission

order number 53

International Van Wassenaer Competition

Summer School: Maartje van Gelder

Semi-final

500 years Ghetto in Venice

For the second time the Hertz Hall in TivoliVredenburg provides the backdrop for the International Van Wassenaer Competition. Today it’s time for the semi-final, in which ten early music ensembles in varying line-ups present repertoire from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ensembles are judged by a professional jury, which includes Václav Luks and Gunar Letzbor. The top six ensembles go through to the final on Saturday.

This year it is exactly five centuries ago that all Jews in Venice were forced to go and live together in one district. The word coined for this at the time was ‘ghetto’, which is still used today. This event of 1516 will be commemorated by means of several concerts. In this Summer School Maartje van Gelder will, by way of introduction to these concerts, tell us about the history and cultural life in the ghetto.

In collaboration with Stichting Internationaal Van Wassenaer Concours

Language: Dutch

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Th 1 Sep / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk

Th 1 Sep / 11.00 Academiegebouw, Aula

A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Javier Núñez

Leila Schayegh & Jörg Halubek

Giovanni Picchi

Albinoni and Bach

There is only one book of keyboard music by Giovanni Picchi that has been preserved: Intavolatura di balli d’arpicordi. The volume was published in Venice in 1621 and is packed with dance music. Cleverly written and virtuosic: that’s right up Javier Nuñez’s street. Critics have described the Spanish harpsichordist’s playing as ‘exceptionally expressive, with a special feel for ornamentation’. Nuñez has added to the programme some works

by Picchi’s contemporaries.

Italian violin sonatas from around 1700? In that case you possibly think first of Corelli. But don’t forget Albinoni: his technically challenging sonatas are much more virtuosic. He was admired by no less a figure than Bach, who owned a number of his works. In Bach’s violin sonatas the influence of Albinoni’s style is unmistakably present.

The Swiss violinist Leila Schayegh juxtaposes sonatas by the two composers.

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Th 1 Sep / 13.00 various locations € 105 / € 90

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A Guide to Early Music with Saskia Coolen

Th 1 Sep / 15.00 Geertekerk

Again this year, as in previous years, we are organizing the Guide to Early Music. With recorder specialist Saskia Coolen you will embark on an exploration of performance practice in Early Music. Coolen will outline for you the musical characteristics of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque era. While walking to the concert locations there will be time to discuss your experiences with each other.

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 57

Ensemble Lucidarium Music for the Merchant of Venice

This year is the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the ghetto in Venice, and 400 years ago saw the death of William Shakespeare, in whose Merchant of Venice Shylock the Jew is the main character. Ensemble Lucidarium, specialists in Jewish musical heritage in Europe, reconstruct an exotic and colourful sound world involving Shylock and the ghetto with its different languages and musical traditions.

13.00 introduction – UCK 15.00 concert Ensemble Lucidarium – Geertekerk 17.00 concert Les Musiciens du Louvre – Geertekerk 20.00 concert Vox Luminis & Capriccio Stravagante – TivoliVredenburg Maximum of 40 participants.

Includes dinner at restaurant Naast De Markt and a voucher for a free programme book.

The Guide will be repeated on 2 and 3 September.

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Th 1 Sep / 17.00 Pieterskerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

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Nederlands Kamerkoor / Richard Egarr

Th 1 Sep / 16.00

Hebrew psalms by Marcello

Domtoren, Flora’s Hof free admission

In the Hebrew tradition no difference exists between speaking and singing, as illustrated by the fact that the texts of the Talmud are also sung. More than anybody else Benedetto Marcello was aware of this relationship between text and music. He composed his Estro poetico-armonico – polyphonic settings of the first fifty psalms – basing them on Hebrew melodies. The Nederlands Kamerkoor, with the adventurous British conductor Richard Egarr, presents a selection of these psalms.

Wim Ruitenbeek Albinoni and Gasparini on carillon

Wim Ruitenbeek, city carillonneur of Tiel and Velsen and regular player of the glass carillon in De Zingende Toren (Singing Tower) of Leidsche Rijn, plays sonatas by Tomaso Albinoni and extracts from the opera Hamlet by Francesco Gasparini.

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Th 1 Sep / 17.00

Th 1 Sep / 18.30

Geertekerk

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

free admission

order number 59

free admission Eventalk

Les Musiciens du Louvre / Francesco Corti

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. There will be a different speaker each day. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards. Prof. Leonard Rutgers (UU) speaks about Venice, Its Ghetto and the Jews. Admission to the Eventalks is free.

Galuppi’s motets

The Baroque orchestra Les Musiciens du Louvre has since the 80s been famed for its large-scale opera productions under the direction of its founder Marc Minkowski. Today you can hear them conducted by the young star harpsichordist Francesco Corti, with motets for soprano, strings and continuo by Baldassare Galuppi. As well as his Ave Regina and Alma redemptoris mater, Vivaldi’s Nulla in mundo pax is also on the programme, supplemented by instrumental concertos.

Language: English In collaboration with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities.

Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

Soloist: Francesca Boncompagni, soprano

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Th 1 Sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempé

become one of the greatest composers ever seen in the history of western music. His madrigals, the church music, the operas: they are without exception the manifestations of the mind of a genius. This evening’s programme includes instrumental works, secular madrigals and largescale psalm settings. Both Monteverdi and colleagues of his are represented: Gabrieli, Vecchi, Mainerio, and Heinrich Schütz, who travelled to Venice in order to study, and there met Monteverdi.

The world of Monteverdi

A dream combination: Vox Luminis and Capriccio Stravagante, both former artists in residence, join forces and enter the world of Claudio Monteverdi.

As kapellmeister of St Mark’s Basilica and musical heir to Willaert and Gabrieli, Monteverdi would grow to 87

Th 1 Sep / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 18 / € 16 / € 10

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Olga Pashchenko Silent film: Der Golem (1920)

Every festival day / 19.30 TivoliVredenburg, Festival Centre

This day of commemoration of 500 years of the Venetian ghetto is rounded off with a special showing of the film Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem, how he came into the world) (1920) from directors Paul Wegener and Carl Boese. This expressionist film, one of the masterpieces of Weimar cinema, recounts the legend of the golem, a supernatural protector of the Jews in the Prague ghetto. The decors and costumes are spectacular, the acting technique is expressive and represents a more or less direct offshoot of the Baroque mime and gesture, but the ear is also not neglected: artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will accompany the film live on a historic piano.

free admission

Festival News AVROTROS Radio 4

During the Early Music Festival AVROTROS is broadcasting a daily news programme from the festival centre in TivoliVredenburg, with special reports and interviews with guests from the music world. The Festival News precedes the live broadcast of the Avondconcert on Radio 4 and admission is free. Maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of your favourite musician.

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Want to enjoy the afterglow of the concert you’ve just attended, or to chat about the workshop you’ve taken part in? For the duration of the Festival you can find yourself a snack and a drink in the café Het Gegeven Paard, in the downstairs foyer of TivoliVredenburg.

The kitchen even serves a complete Italian meal on a daily basis.

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Friday 2 September 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Cappella Romana

TivoliVredenburg

Willibrordkerk

9.30 Summer School

Alexander Lingas

15.30 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Jakob De Vreese Domtoren

10.00 Masterclasses

International Van

Wassenaer Competition

17.00 Officium Ensemble Pieterskerk

various locations

17.00 Cantar Lontano

11.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

various locations

18.30 Eventalk

11.00 Il Suonar Parlante TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

12.00 Early Music Exhibition

19.30 Festival News

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe

20.00 Hespèrion XXI

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Luca Guglielmi

22.30 Cantar Lontano

TivoliVredenburg

Lutherse Kerk

24.00 Eduardo EgĂźez

& Roberta Mameli

13.00 A Guide to Early Music

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe

various locations

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Fr 2 Sep / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine € 5

Fr 2 Sep / 11.00

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TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Summer School: Alexander Lingas

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 63

Venice and the East

Il Suonar Parlante / Vittorio Ghielmi

From the end of the Middle Ages the Venetian Republic grew rapidly to become a seafaring trading nation with unprecedented power. The Venetians were masters of the Mediterranean region, and in 1204 even conquered (and plundered) Constantinople. Of course there was also plenty of cultural interaction going on. Alexander Lingas, artistic director of Cappella Romana and a specialist in the field of GrecoByzantine repertoire, talks about Venice and the East, and the musical exchanges between them.

Venetian consort music

Vittorio Ghielmi and his gamba consort demonstrate that the viola da gamba remained popular in Venice throughout the entire 17th century. Ghielmi leads the listeners from Gabrieli and Negri, via intabulations for lute and harp based on extracts from Orfeo by Monteverdi (who was also a gambist himself), to Legrenzi’s influential volume La Cetra of 1673. Although the violin family was already popular by that time, a number of sonatas from this collection were definitely composed for gamba consort.

Language: English

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Fr 2 Sep / 12.00-18.00

Fr 2 Sep / 13.00

TivoliVredenburg

Lutherse Kerk

free admission

A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

Early Music Exhibition

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Luca Guglielmi Cristofori’s fortepiano

During the Early Music Exhibition from Friday to Sunday, some fifty instrument builders, sheet music publishers, music shops and book dealers will be displaying their precious wares in the Festival Centre in TivoliVredenburg. In addition, the Early Music Exhibition offers you the opportunity of examining historic musical instruments and even of trying them out. A complete list of the stallholders can be found via oudemuziek. nl/markt and in the Festival brochure from 1 July onwards.

Is it something in the air, or in the water? For whatever reason, the area around Venice has proved a fertile source of inspiration for revolutionary ideas. Around 1700 Bartolomeo Cristofori, born in neighbouring Padua, invented the fortepiano, the predecessor of our modern piano. Luca Guglielmi plays early sonatas by Platti, Galuppi and Luchesi on a copy of a Cristofori fortepiano built by Kerstin Schwarz.

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Fr 2 Sep / 13.00 various locations € 105 / € 90

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A Guide to Early Music with Saskia Coolen

Fr 2 Sep / 15.00

Again this year, as in previous years, we are organizing the Guide to Early Music. With recorder specialist Saskia Coolen you will embark on an exploration of performance practice in Early Music. Coolen will outline for you the musical characteristics of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque era. While walking to the concert locations there will be time to discuss your experiences with each other.

Willibrordkerk € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Cappella Romana / Alexander Lingas At the crossroads between East and West

Because of its strategic location Cyprus has since time immemorial been an important crossroads for trade and culture. In 1489 the island was ceded to the Venetian Republic. Cappella Romana and its artistic director Alexander Lingas explore the interchange between Greek Orthodox, Cypriot and Venetian music.

13.00 introduction – UCK 15.00 concert Cappella Romana – Willibrordkerk 17.00 concert Cantar Lontano – TivoliVredenburg 20.00 concert Hespèrion XXI – TivoliVredenburg Maximum of 40 participants.

Includes dinner at restaurant Naast De Markt and a voucher for a free programme book.

The Guide will be repeated on 1 and 3 September.

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Fr 2 Sep / 17.00 Pieterskerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

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Officium Ensemble / Pedro Teixeira Fr 2 Sep / 16.00

Willaerts Missa Quæramus cum pastoribus

Domtoren, Flora’s Hof

Last year Pedro Teixeira and his Officium Ensemble captured the hearts of the Festival audience with a sensational performance. There must therefore be many who are eagerly looking forward to the return of this young Portuguese ensemble. Officium Ensemble has built a programme around Adriaen Willaert’s Missa Quæramus cum pastoribus, which is based on the motet of the same name by his teacher Jean Mouton.

The rest of the programme consists of works by contemporaries and fellowkapellmeisters, including Monteverdi, Merulo and De Rore.

free admission

Jakob De Vreese Carillon fringe: Carnevale di Venezia

Jakob De Vreese already has various international carillon competitions to his name, including the one in SaintAmand-Les-Eaux. Today, in the carillon fringe, he plays works by, among others, Giuseppe Tartini and Antonio Vivaldi, and improvises on Carnevale di Venezia.

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Fr 2 Sep / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Cantar Lontano / Marco Mencoboni

free admission

Monteverdi: Tancredi e Clorinda

Eventalk A Venetian Festival would not be complete without this high point of Claudio Monteverdi’s oeuvre: his Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda from the Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi.

Monteverdi effectively sets to music the fateful conflict between the two lovers Tancredi and Clorinda, which leads to a heart-breaking result. We can well imagine that this concert, with a top ensemble led by Marco Mencoboni, is one you won’t want to miss. So this evening we’re giving you another chance: at 22.30 Cantar Lontano are repeating the Combattimento!

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. There will be a different speaker each day. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards.

Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi (UU) speaks about Postcolonial Italy: Quo Vaids?

Admission to the Eventalks is free.

Soliosts: Alessandra Gardini, sopraan Francesca Lombardi Mazzuoli, sopraan Massimo Altieri, tenor Luca Dordolo, tenor Riccardo Pisani, tenor Salvo Vitale, bas

Language: English In collaboration with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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Fr 2 Sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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Hespèrion XXI Le Concert des Nations La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall

Starting with the Byzantine connections, the foundation of La Serenissima, via the Venetian School, the trade routes and the clashes with the Ottoman Empire, we then come to Vivaldi, then the Russians, and finally the French, who put an end to the Republic. This will be a splendid programme of the sort that Savall seems to have patented, in collaboration with musicians from various countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

1000 years of Venice / 75 years of Jordi Savall

A genuine concert of celebration: this evening Jordi Savall marks his 75th birthday with a grandiose bird’s-eye view of 1,000 years of the Venetian Republic.

In coproduction with Carnegie Hall, New York

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Fr 2 Sep / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Cantar Lontano / Marco Mencoboni Monteverdi: Tancredi e Clorinda

A Venetian Festival would not be complete without this high point of Claudio Monteverdi’s oeuvre: his Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda from the Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi.

Monteverdi effectively sets to music the fateful conflict between the two lovers Tancredi and Clorinda, which leads to a heart-breaking result. We can well imagine that this concert, with a top ensemble led by Marco Mencoboni, is one you won’t want to miss. So this evening we’re giving you another chance: at 22.30 Cantar Lontano are repeating the Combattimento!

Every festival day / 19.30 TivoliVredenburg, Festival Centre free admission

Festival News AVROTROS Radio 4

During the Early Music Festival AVROTROS is broadcasting a daily news programme from the festival centre in TivoliVredenburg, with special reports and interviews with guests from the music world. The Festival News precedes the live broadcast of the Avondconcert on Radio 4 and admission is free. Maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of your favourite musician.

Soliosts: Alessandra Gardini, sopraan Francesca Lombardi Mazzuoli, sopraan Massimo Altieri, tenor Luca Dordolo, tenor Riccardo Pisani, tenor Salvo Vitale, bas

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Eduardo Egüez & Roberta Mameli Lute songs by Francesco Bosniaco

Support Early Music

Lutenist Eduardi Egüez and soprano Roberta Mameli conclude this Festival day with an intimate concert based around the little-known 16th-century composer Francesco Bosniaco. Born in Bosnia, he lived in Venice, where he had two collections of lute songs published

by Petrucci. As well as his compositions we will hear frottolas by other composers, including Tromboncino, Cara and Pesenti.

The Early Music Festival and Season together present roughly 250 concerts per year, which are enjoyed by over 80,000 concertgoers, including yourself. Would you like to play a role in the future of early music? Then support the Early Music Organization by means of a legacy or donation. For more information about the options go to oudemuziek.nl/legaten.

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Saturday 3 September 9.00 Festival Centre

13.00 A Guide to Early Music

TivoliVredenburg

9.30 Summer School

Francesco Fanna

14.00 Fringe

various locations

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Ensemble Gilles Binchois 10.00 Early Music Exhibition

Pieterskerk

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe 10.00 Vocal workshop with

Marco Mencoboni

UCK

17.00 Les Basses RĂŠunies

various locations

Geertekerk

11.00 Fringe

17.00 Cappella Pratensis

various locations

Jacobikerk

11.00 International Van

Wassenaer Competition

18.30 Eventalk

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Bosgraaf & Corti

19.30 Festival News

Geertekerk

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Malgosia Fiebig

Domtoren

20.00 Ensemble Correspondances TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe

22.30 Ars Antiqua Austria

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Reitze Smits NicolaĂŻkerk

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Sa 3 Sep / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine € 5

Sa 3 Sep / 10.00-18.00

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TivoliVredenburg free admission

Summer School: Francesco Fanna

Early Music Exhibition

Discovering Vivaldi

We can hardly imagine it now, but Vivaldi’s music was forgotten for almost 200 years following his death in 1741.

It is largely thanks to the efforts of Alfredo Casella and of Antonio Fanna, who founded the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi, that today his oeuvre belongs to the canon of Baroque music. Fanna’s son Francesco tells the story of this rediscovery of Vivaldi in the manner of a detective novel.

During the Early Music Exhibition from Friday to Sunday, some fifty instrument builders, sheet music publishers, music shops and book dealers will be displaying their precious wares in the Festival Centre in TivoliVredenburg. In addition, the Early Music Exhibition offers you the opportunity of examining historic musical instruments and even of trying them out. A complete list of the stallholders can be found via oudemuziek. nl/markt and in the Festival booklet from 1 July onwards.

Language: English

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Sa 3 Sep / 10.00-14.30 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten

Sa 3 Sep / 11.00-16.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

â‚Ź 25 including lunch

free admission

Vocal workshop with Marco Mencoboni

International Van Wassenaer Competition

Psalms on Hebrew melodies by Marcello

Final

Benedetto Marcello’s most admired opus is his volume of psalm settings on Hebrew melodies. During a demanding morning rehearsal directed by Marco Mencoboni, the expert in Italian early music, you work on one of these pieces, after which you present the result in our fringe. Singing credentials required.

Register via www.oudemuziek.nl.

The time has come: today sees the final of the International Van Wassenaer Competition. Six early music ensembles battle for the title, but also for various prizes and a tour during the Early Music Season. Which ensemble is your favourite? Your opinion counts too, because you can vote for the Audience Prize.

10.00-13.00 rehearsal 13.30-14.00 lunch 14.00-14.00 presentation in fringe

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Sa 3 Sep / 11.00 Domtoren, Flora’s Hof

Sa 3 Sep / 11.00

free admission

Geertekerk € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Malgosia Fiebig

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Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on carillon

Erik Bosgraaf & Francesco Corti

Vivaldi’s best known and best loved compositions are without doubt the first four concertos from Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione, better known as the Four Seasons. Malgosia Fiebig, city carillonneur of Utrecht and Nijmegen, plays these evocative and virtuosic concertos on the Hemony carillon in the Domtoren.

Castello and Bassano

Erik Bosgraaf, who is making a name for himself worldwide as one of the most gifted recorder players of his generation, teams up with harpsichordist Francesco Corti for this concert. The duo are playing the virtuosic Sonate concertate by Dario Castello and works

by Giovanni Bassano, who was related to the famous family of recorder makers and was one of the driving forces behind the instrumental ensemble at St Mark’s Basilica.

+ Have a peek at the carillon, in cooperation with Toerisme Utrecht.

This guided tour takes you to a height of 70 meters.

During the guided tour you can briefly visit the carillonneur to see her in action.

Start: 10.30, duration: 90 minutes.

Assemble: 10.15, entrance Domtoren, Domplein 21. € 10 per person, order number 73.

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Sa 3 Sep / 13.00 various locations € 105 / € 90

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A Guide to Early Music with Saskia Coolen

Sa 3 Sep / 13.00 Nicolaïkerk € 18 / € 16 / € 10

Extended due to overwhelming success: the Guide to Early Music. With recorder specialist Saskia Coolen you will embark on an exploration of performance practice in Early Music.

Coolen will outline for you the musical characteristics of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque era, and will give you some historical background about each. While walking to the concert locations there will be time to discuss your experiences with each other.

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Reitze Smits Bach and Vivaldi on the organ

The unmistakable influence of Vivaldi on Bach may well have come about thanks to Utrecht! Bach’s patron in Weimar, Prince Johann Ernst, studied at the University of Utrecht between 1711 and 1713. He headed home bearing Italian music that had been printed in Amsterdam, and this could well have included the newest concertos by ‘the red priest’ from Venice. Shortly after this Bach would make keyboard arrangements of several Vivaldi concertos, some of which were certainly meant for organ. Organist Reitze Smits plays the Marcussen organ in the Nicolaïkerk.

13.00 introduction – UCK 15.00 concert Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Pieterskerk 17.00 concert Les Basses Réunies – Geertekerk 20.00 concert Ensemble Correspondances – TivoliVredenburg Maximum of 40 participants.

Includes dinner at restaurant Naast De Markt and a voucher for a free programme book.

The Guide will be repeated on 1 and 2 September.

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Sa 3 Sep / 15.00 € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Pieterskerk

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A € 22 / € 19 / € 16 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Sa 3 Sep / 17.00

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Geertekerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Dominique Vellard

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

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Les Basses Réunies / Bruno Cocset

Plainsong from St Mark’s Basilica

Vivaldi’s cello sonatas and concerti

The Berlin State Library possesses a manuscript of plainsong which 25 years ago was discovered to have belonged to St Mark’s in Venice. The manuscript contains, as well as the usual kind of chant, a number of unique variants, which testify to the solemn observances held in the basilica. Ensemble Gilles Binchois has for more than 35 years been an authority in the field of sacred music from the Middle Ages.

Bruno Cocset, one of the finest Baroque cellists of our day, plays Vivaldi.

He has chosen not for the sonatas published in Paris in 1740, but for works that have been passed down in manuscript form only. In these compositions Vivaldi confers a real starring role on the cello as a solo instrument. A cunning use of the different sound registers gives rise to an inner dialogue.

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Sa 3 Sep / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Sa 3 Sep / 17.00 Jacobikerk

free admission

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Eventalk

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Cappella Pratensis / Stratton Bull

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. There will be a different speaker each day. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards.

Prof. Paul Schnabel (UU) speaks today.

Admission to the Eventalks is free.

Willaert’s Flemish roots

As kapellmeister of St Mark’s, Adriaan Willaert was the founder of the ‘Venetian School’, to which the Gabrielis and Monteverdi are also deemed to have belonged. The Flemish composer, born in Rumbeke around 1490, was already a star before he had secured his appointment in Venice. The Dutch-Belgian Renaissance ensemble Cappella Pratensis follows the trail of Willaert’s early career by means of his motets and those of his predecessors Josquin and Mouton.

Language: Dutch In collaboration with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities.

Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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Sa 3 Sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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Ensemble Correspondances / Sébastien Daucé

dertook between 1665–69. Not much is known about it. Charpentier visited Rome briefly, but was he also in Bologna or in Venice? What is certain is that he composed a four-choir mass, unique in French music, in which the Venetian influence is conspicuously resonant. On hypothetical grounds Sébastien Daucé presents this composition together with Charpentier’s possible examples, which include church music for multiple choirs by Francesco Beretta from Rome and Orazio Benevoli from Bologna.

Charpentier in Italy

Venice as the Festival theme, and then music by Charpentier? Oh yes!

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Sa 3 Sep / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Every festival day / 19.30 TivoliVredenburg, Festival Centre

Ars Antiqua Austria / Gunar Letzbor

free admission

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni

Festival News Yes, the Four Seasons… Few pieces have been played as often as these four examples of programme music, violin concertos which Vivaldi had published in Amsterdam in 1725 as part of his Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione.

But we guarantee that in the hands of Gunar Letzbor and his colleagues they will sound as they’ve never sounded before, and that this evening you will be poised on the edge of your seat. The only question is how often Letzbor will have to replace a snapped string…

AVROTROS Radio 4

During the Early Music Festival AVROTROS is broadcasting a daily news programme from the festival centre in TivoliVredenburg, with special reports and interviews with guests from the music world. The Festival News precedes the live broadcast of the Avondconcert on Radio 4 and admission is free. Maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of your favourite musician.

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Sunday 4 September 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 Scorpio Collectief

TivoliVredenburg

Geertekerk

9.30 Summer School

Micky White

15.30 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig 10.00 Early Music Exhibition

Domtoren

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Huelgas Ensemble

Domkerk

11.00 Fringe

various locations

17.00 Le Banquet CĂŠleste 11.00 Concerto Madrigalesco

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

18.30 Eventalk 12.30 Opening Uitfeest

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

19.30 Festival News 13.00 Olga Pashchenko

Leeuwenbergh

TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Le Concert Spirituel 14.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

various locations

15.00 Cappella Romana

Willibrordkerk

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Su 4 Sep / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine € 5

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Su 4 Sep / 10.00-17.00

Summer School: Micky White

TivoliVredenburg

Myths around Vivaldi’s La Pietà

free admission

Early Music Exhibition What we know about Vivaldi’s Venetian life is for a large part thanks to Micky White, archivist at the Ospedale della Pietà, where Vivaldi worked off and on as a teacher between 1703 and 1740.

He conducted the girls’ orchestra there, but La Pietà was definitely not a girls’ school, as is often thought. Micky White, who in 2013 published a book about all her investigative work, deals summarily with a number of myths surrounding La Pietà and sketches Vivaldi’s life in this famous institute.

During the Early Music Exhibition from Friday to Sunday, some fifty instrument builders, sheet music publishers, music shops and book dealers will be displaying their precious wares in the Festival Centre in TivoliVredenburg. In addition, the Early Music Exhibition offers you the opportunity of examining historic musical instruments and even of trying them out. A complete list of the stallholders can be found via oudemuziek. nl/markt and in the Festival booklet from 1 July onwards.

Language: English

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Su 4 Sep / 13.00

Su 4 Sep / 11.00

Leeuwenbergh

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

€ 18 / € 16 / € 10

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Olga Pashchenko

Concerto Madrigalesco / Luca Guglielmi

Bach and Vivaldi

Vivaldi’s Trio Sonatas

Johann Sebastian Bach was certainly not impervious to the musical fashions of his day. The virtuosic and colourful Italian style spread throughout Europe, and also left behind striking traces in Bach’s oeuvre. That Bach was acquainted with examples of this style is certain, because he himself arranged concertos by Vivaldi and Marcello for keyboard. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko, with her rock-solid technique and a musical heart as big as a house, plays this intriguing repertoire.

With his Trio Sonatas opus 1 the young Vivaldi was almost certainly following the example of Corelli’s opus 5.

What is striking is that both volumes conclude with a series of variations on La Folia. But Vivaldi’s musical language extends much further due to his disarming audacity. These sonatas are a challenge for Concerto Madrigalesco under the direction of harpsichordist Luca Guglielmi.

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Su 4 Sep / 15.00 Geertekerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Su 4 Sep / 15.00

Scorpio Collectief / Simen Van Mechelen

Willibrordkerk € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Baroque brass music

Cappella Romana / Alexander Lingas

A cheerful Cantate Domino by Francesco Cavalli, three dramatic miniatures by Alessandro Grandi and work of Dario Castello, who directed the wind players of St Mark’s Basilica: this is Scorpio’s menu of the day. Castello’s sonatas, virtuosic and full of dramatic contrasts, represent the instrumental equivalent of the vocal seconda prattica. One generation later, around 1640, expressivity reached a new high point in the work of Rigatti. Scorpio Collectief rounds off this programme with the Confitebor tibi Dominum from the Selva Morale of Monteverdi.

A Venetian in Russia

The influence of the West on the music of the Russian Orthodox church reached a high point during the reign of Empress Catherine the Great, who appointed Italian, Roman Catholic opera composers to her court chapel.

Baldassare Galuppi lived in St Petersburg for three years, and composed both ceremonial court music and a cappella choral works in Church Slavonic, intended for Russian Orthodox worship.

Soloist: Perrine Devillers

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Su 4 Sep / 17.00 Domkerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

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Huelgas Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel Willaert and De Rore

After 35 years as Kapellmeister of St Mark’s Basilica, Adriaen Willaert was succeeded by Cipriano de Rore. In memory of his deceased colleague, De Rore composed the moving humanistic motet Concordes adhibete animos. The new post did not suit him very well: after a year he had already left it.

Nonetheless, the careers of the two Flemish masters do display similarities. For example, both liked to take compositions of Josquin as their model, and they were both standard bearers of the Italian madrigal. The Huelgas Ensemble, under the masterly Paul Van Nevel, examine the differences and similarities between the two composers as illustrated in their masses, madrigals and motets.

Su 4 Sep / 16.00 Domtoren, Flora’s Hof free admission

Malgosia Fiebig Vivaldi, Legrenzi and Bach on carillon

During this final concert of the Utrecht Early Music Carillon Festival 2016, city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig plays trio sonatas by Legrenzi, works by Vivaldi and an arrangement by Bach.

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Su 4 Sep / 17.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Su 4 Sep / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Le Banquet Céleste / Damien Guillon

free admission

Solo motets by Vivaldi

Eventalk free admission

For this programme the French countertenor Damien Guillon has chosen Vivaldi’s finest solo motets. The most famous is undoubtedly his Stabat Mater. The key of F minor – in the Baroque era signifying mourning and grief – plus the repetition of musical phrases, lend it great poignancy. In Filiae Maestae Jerusalem the girls of the Ospedale della Pietà no doubt served as a metaphor for the weeping daughters of Jerusalem. The Nisi Dominus is an ambitious work, in terms of both form and content. The nine sections are very varied and rich in affects. Furthermore, Vivaldi makes use of the viola d’amore, an instrument of which he himself was a virtuosic player.

Following the success of the daily Eventalks in 2015, we are proud to present a second edition during this festival, once again in close collaboration with the University of Utrecht’s Centre for the Humanities. At the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection – like an intellectual haiku - will be wreathed in music. There will be a different speaker each day. Artist in residence Olga Pashchenko will provide musical meditations on different historic keyboards.

Admission to the Eventalks is free.

Language: Dutch In collaboration with Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and Centre for the Humanities.

Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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Su 4 Sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet

girls at his disposal for the choir and orchestra. ‘They sing like angels and no instrument is big enough to scare them,’ wrote his contemporary Charles de Brosse. And Niquet’s choir consists entirely of ladies this evening. In this way he can reconstruct a unique sound in the original versions of famous works such as Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat.

Several grand psalm settings can also be heard – Lauda Jerusalem, In exitu Israel en Laetatus sum.

Vivaldi’s Gloria for female voices

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Ticket sales & practical information You can buy your tickets for the Utrecht Early Music Festival and Early Music Season from the Organisatie Oude Muziek. Sometimes you can also purchase tickets and/or make a reservation through a local organization; details are specified by the locations concerned. For concerts in Belgium, France and Italy you can only get tickets from the locations themselves.

Order online Tickets can be bought online through the concert calendar on www.oudemuziek.nl. You can use your log-in details or create a new personal account. Accepted methods of payment are credit cards for international guests and iDEAL for Dutch bank account holders. The administration fee per ticket is € 1,50, with a maximum of € 7,50 for each separate order. When the concert is within 5 days of ordering, the tickets will no longer be sent: during the Festival you can pick up the tickets at the concert venue, and during the Season your confirmation e-mail will count as your ticket.

Festival tickets Vrienden (Friends) that donate € 80 or more can order tickets from 13 May. Other Vrienden (Friends) can order from 20 May. The regular ticket sale starts on 1 June.

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Festival box office and ticket line The Festival box office is located in the Festival centre in TivoliVredenburg and open daily from 09.00 to 20.00 and 30 minutes before the start of the late evening concerts (22.30), starting from Friday 26 August. To reserve by phone, please call +31 (0)30 2329010 (from Monday 22 August from 10.00 to 18.00).

Please not that for concerts that do not take place in TivoliVredenburg, you can pick up reserved tickets up up to two hours before the start of the concert at the Festival Box Office. After that, tickets can exclusively be bought at the concert location itself, which opens half an hour before.

From fifteen minutes before the start of the concert, uncollected tickets can be sold again.

Reductions The reduced rates for Vrienden (Friends) is available for a maximum of two tickets per concert. If you have a CJP/youth card or a student card, you can benefit from even cheaper tickets.

Ranks and seating In some locations, the seats are ranked. Rank A provides the seats with the best view on the stage and the musicians; rank B provides the less favourable places.

Wheelchairs Not every venue is easily accessible for wheelchair users. Please let us know your need, as experience has taught us we can help. Don’t forget to select wheelchair seats where possible online, or tick the ‘wheelchair’ box on the order form.

Concert durations Most Festival concerts will last for one hour, without an interval. Concerts starting at 20.00 will have an interval and usually end before 22.00. We have mentioned different ending times in the brochure.

Sold out concerts We will mention sold out concerts on our website and the Festival box office.

Conditions Please take good care of your tickets and contact us immediately if you think you lost them.

Once issued, tickets cannot be returned.

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Colofon Brochure Utrecht Early Music Festival 2016 © 2016 Utrecht editors: Susanne Vermeulen, Iris van Korven, Xavier Vandamme, Thiemo Wind, Nicolien van der Veer, Juliëtte Dufornee concept design: Kea Dunant DTP: Esther de Bruijn image cover: Keith Ewing design cover: Doretta Rinaldi photography inside: Marieke Wijntjes, Foppe Schut, Remke Spijkers, Anna van Kooij, Rejik, Tteske, Didier Descouens, Karli Watson, Bill Thompson, Yo Ho Tsang, Marjolein Visser, Stepaganini, Masques, Lorenzo Franzi, Ziga Koritnik, Scherzi Musicali, Abhishek Awasthi, Simon Fowler, Brno, Laure Jacquemin, Ana de Labra, NKV, Fenice, Koen Broos, Gontzi, JBM, Melanie Bateman, Roderick Eime, Cesare Negri, Susanne Vermeulen, Massimiliano Marsili, LHLB, Annelies van der Vegt, Petra Hajská, Michael Sean Callagher, Pedro Szekely, Maxresdefault, C. Doutre, Molamoni, Brana Mensi, Aris Gionis, Islan Khosla, Vojtech Havlík, Acediscovery, Giacomo Maestri, Maarten Danial, Frank Eidel, Rahjesh Pamnani, Joeri Hiensch, Teresa Flöhl, Luis Montesdeoca, Marco Borggreve, Bert Knot, Lorenzo Franzi, Karli Watson, JD Noir, Conjuringsunlight, Sylvain Gripoix, Georg Thum, Simone Bartoli, Christian Klenk, Bdediesbach, Stephen Frith, Eric Manas .

Publicatoin date: 10 May 2016 (may be subject to change) The 35th Utrecht Early Music Festival is a production of the Organisatie Oude Muziek and is made possible with the support of: : Fonds Podiumkunsten, Provincie Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht (Culturele Zaken), Fonds 21, VSBfonds, Turing Foundation, kfHein Fonds, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, Institut français, Jacoba van Wassenear Fonds, Thurkowfonds, J.C.P. Stichting, Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, Kattendijke/Drucker Stichting, Carel Nengerman Fonds, Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, Koninklijke Nederlandse Ambassade van Wetenschappen, Mr August Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, De Oude Franz Jansen.

In coproduction with: TivoliVredenburg, AVROTROS, Radio 4, MAfestival, Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek, Stichting Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk, Concertzender, Universiteit Utrecht, Carnegie Hall, Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, Adriaen Willaert Foundation, Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi della Fondazione Giorgio Cini di Venezia, Centre for the Humanities, RTV Utrecht, brava, Culturele Zondagen, Utrechts Klokkenluiders Gilde, Residenties Utrecht, Uitfeest en Cultuurpromotie Utrecht.

Special thanks to: team TivoliVredenburg, Toerisme Utrecht, Hans Kuperus, Malgosia Fiebig, Henk Klop klavecimbels & orgels, Jan Kalsbeek klavecimbels, brava, Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten, Jeroen Heijungs, Nander Cirkel, Laura Jonker, Marco Mencoboni, Peter Malisse, Arnold Loose, Francesco Fanna, Olivier Lexa, Katelijne Schiltz, Rosi Braidotti, Arent van Wassenaer, Carel Jan Reigersman, Krijn Koetsveld, Goda Klumbyte, Hanneke Bouwsema, Willemijn Lamp, Lidy Ettema, Thiemo Wind, Wineke van Muiswinkel, Fred Jacobs, administrators and employees of these institutions and of the festival venues, and all festival volunteers.

Media partners: AVROTROS, Radio 4, Trouw Organisatie Oude Muziek Office address Plompetorengracht 4 3512 CC Utrecht Postal address Postbus 19267 3501 DG Utrecht T 030 232 9000 F 030 232 9001 info@oudemuziek.nl IBAN bank account number NL35RABO0394476115

coordination volunteers: Yvonne Postma marketing & communication: Nicolien van der Veer administration: Lynn Pham box office: Wilmer de Jong, Hinke Beekman, Krista de Jong, Dionne Nijsten, Julia Zoet, Anna van der Weij, Daan Haanstra, Tamar Tarenskeen, Toos Vos office: Judith Heeres assistance office: Ellen Vogelezang, Tom Blaas, Miel Slager, Marjan Tesser festival tuners: Eduard Bos, Edwin Beunk transport: Matthijs Kappers light: James Murray, Motiondezign

direction & programming: Xavier Vandamme artistic advise: Jed Wentz business advise & fundraising: Juliëtte Dufornee planning & editorial office: Susanne Vermeulen editorial office: Iris van Korven production: Marijse Poutsma, Go Bruêns, Eelke Bakker, Judith Heeres, Jaap van Hellenberg Hubar, Brigitte Nuchelmans, Ania Katyńska

Supervisory board chairwoman: Dr. Joyce Sylvester members: Jan van der Tol RA and Johan van de Gronden Board Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek chairman: Dick Hoek treasurer: Jan van der Tol RA member: Hans Tromp

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De Cellisten: Nicolas Altstaedt Matthias Bartolomey Anner Bijlsma Jörg Brinkmann Albert Brüggen Maya Fridman Larissa Groeneveld Stjepan Hauser Jeroen den Herder Gregor Horsch Monika Leskovar Pepijn Meeuws Antonio Meneses Ivan Monighetti Daniel Müller-Schott Jan Bastiaan Neven Jelena Oč ić Aurélien Pascal Jérôme Pernoo Bruno Philippe Raphaël Pidoux Ella van Poucke Jean-Guihen Queyras Jonathan Roozeman Timora Rosler Martti Rousi Alexander Rudin Kian Soltani Anton Mecht Spronk Julian Steckel Luka Šulić Torleif Thedéen Geneviève Verhage Emile Visser Michiel Weidner Alisa Weilerstein Pieter Wispelwey

21 t/m 29 oktober 2016

Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ & Bimhuis

De orkesten en ensembles: 2CELLOS Amsterdam Sinfonietta Atlas Ensemble Artvark Saxophone Quartet BartolomeyBittmann Biënnale Cello Band Cappella Amsterdam Cello8ctet Amsterdam Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Orkest van de 18 e Eeuw Orkest van het Conservatorium van Amsterdam Ragazze Quartet Residentie Orkest Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest Score Collective Slagwerk Den Haag Zapp4

9 t/m 27 november 2016 — Concerto Köln — operaballet.nl

JEPHTHA —

Georg Friedrich Händel

MOZART IN DE WERKSPOORKATHEDRAAL UTRECHT Holland Opera maakt al 10 jaar opera op bijzondere locaties: Orfeo Underground van Monteverdi in een parkeergarage en Blauwbaard van Chiel Meijering op Fort Rijnauwen, waar vorig jaar ook de wereldpremière van the Day After van Jonathan Dove werd gerealiseerd.

Dit jaar strijkt het gezelschap met Don Giovanni neer in de Werkspoorkathedraal in Utrecht: een gigantische ruimte in de sfeer van industriĂŤle vormgeving uit 1912. Een jonge cast van zangers en orkest spelen de voorstellingen van 16 augustus t/m 3 september.

CREATIE: Holland Opera i.s.m. Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht Muziek W.A. Mozart | Regie Joke Hoolboom | Dirigent Johannes Leertouwer Decor Douwe Hibma | Licht Maarten Warmerdam | Geluid Tom Gelissen

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CAST: Don Giovanni Martijn Cornet | Leporello Rick Zwart | Don Ottavio Erik Slik Donna Anna Leonie van Veen | Donna Elvira Fenna Ograjensek Zerlina Lilian Farahani | Commendatore Sinan Vural

16/17 nú in de verkoop

Serie Oude Muziek mét colleges

ZO 21 DEC / 19.30

Liza Ferschtman + Jonathan Cohen

Bibers Rozenkranssonates College Muziek uit Oostenrijk (18.30)

Vier colleges door Xavier Vandamme

Tip

DI 17 JAN / 20.15

Jean Rondeau Goldbergvariaties

College Het klavecimbel (19.00)

WO 8 FEB / 20.15 ZO 18 SEP / 15.00

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Favorieten van Bach ZA 12 NOV / 20.15

B’Rock + Vox Luminis Barokke rouw

ZA 10 DEC / 20.15

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Kerst met Händel, Bach en Telemann

WO 14 DEC / 20.15

Cappella Pratensis Kerst met Josquin

Cappella Mariana Canticum Canticorum ZA 4 MRT / 20.15

Café Zimmerman + Andreas Staier Bach op het grensvlak van een tijdperk

College Revival van de oude muziek (19.00)

ZO 2 APR / 20.15

Combattimento

Passie volgens Pergolesi ZA 6 MEI / 20.15

Holland Baroque + Lars Ulrik Mortensen Drama in de barok

College Drama en barokke emotie (19.00)

Vroegboekkorting tot 35% vanaf 3 of meer verschillende concerten tot 1 oktober. www.muziekgebouw.nl/oudemuziek

SEIZOEN

30 SEP T/M 9 OKT DE VIER JAARGETIJDEN

16 T/M 18 FEB FEESTCANTATES VAN BACH

20 T/M 22 OKT VERGNÜGTE RUH: VIER TOPCANTATES VAN BACH

8 T/M 12 MRT JOHANNES-PASSION

13 T/M 23 DEC HOHE MESSE 19 T/M 21 JAN BACH EN DE VIOOL VAN PISENDEL 1 T/M 4 FEB BACHS KLAVECIMBEL CONCERTEN

1 T/M 15 APR MATTHÄUS-PASSION 14 & 15 APR LAMENTATIES 11 T/M 13 MEI BACHS OSTER-ORATORIUM

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EEN GREEP UIT HET AANBOD di 27 sep 20.15 uur Grote Zaal

Anna Prohaska (sopraan) Dido and Cleopatra werken van o.a. Purcell, Händel en Locke James Ehnes (viool) Bachs sonates en partita’s

di 15 nov 20.15 uur Grote Zaal

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzosopraan) Händel Heroines aria’s uit opera’s van Händel za 19 nov 20.15 uur Grote Zaal

Joyce DiDonato (mezzosopraan) War & Peace - Harmony through Music aria’s van o.a. Monteverdi, Purcell en Händel di 13 dec 20.15 uur Grote Zaal

Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium RIAS Kammerchor en Freiburger Barockorchester o.l.v. Hans-Christoph Rademann zo 18 dec 20.15 uur Kleine Zaal

Trio Zimmermann Bachs Goldberg-variaties bewerkt

ALLES KLINKT MOOIER IN

Foto’s: Harald Hoffmann/DG, Ben Ealovega, Simon van Boxtel, Matthias Heyde, Ronald Knapp

do 6 en vr 7 okt 20.15 uur Kleine Zaal

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