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In search of the English soul

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Festival schedule 2015

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Boughton House

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From the Duke’s Library

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Artist in residence: Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier

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Tudor polyphony

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Consorts

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Virginalists

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Henry Purcell

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Out of Handel’s Shadow

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Eventalk

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Semiotics course

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Piccola Accademia di Montisi

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STIMU-symposium – The past is a foreign country…

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Summer school

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Carillon festival

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Programme festival 2015

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Ticket sales & practical information

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In search of the English soul When in the 17th century the Huguenots fled en masse from France to England, they took their own culture with them. Before long they were playing an important role in artistic life. Architect and decorator Daniel Marot fled to The Netherlands, where Willem III employed him to work on Paleis Het Loo, and later, when Willem became king of England, Marot laid the foundation of the characteristic William and Mary style in England. Typically English? Things that are seen as such are often the product of import and cross-pollination.

Take Purcell, for instance, who was around at the same time. His music is English and French, old and new at the same time. The Elizabethan gamba consort clearly has its roots in Italy. And the hero of the London stage in the 18th century, Handel, originally from Saxony, wrote…Italian music.

In this festival we are inquisitively examining English music, which we so love. Tudor polyphony, virginalists, consorts in all shapes and sizes, religious and theatre music by Purcell, and music of lesser-known contemporaries of Handel, under the heading ‘Out of Handel’s Shadow’: these all have their place in our search for the English soul.

Our annual festival is the Rijksmuseum of music, where a thousand years of early repertoire come to life. Such a centre of enrichment and encounter should of course be accessible for more than ten days a year, and we are. So leaf through the brochure to the concerts in the Early Music Season, which takes place all year round in The Netherlands and Belgium.

Cheers to that!

Xavier Vandamme directeur

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Festivalschema fri 28 aug

sat 29 aug

sun 30 aug

mon 31 aug

tue 1 sept

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.30-12.30 Cursus semiologie UCK

9.30-12.30 Cursus semiologie UCK

9.30-12.30 Cursus semiologie UCK

9.30-12.30 Cursus semiologie UCK

9.30-18.00 STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

9.30-18.00 STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

10.00-12.00 Danscursus UCK

10.00-12.00 Danscursus UCK

ZS: Thérèse de Goede TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Jennifer Thorp TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Katherina Lindekens ZS: Paul Boucher TivoliVredenburg TivoliVredenburg

Collegium 1704 TivoliVredenburg

De Winne c.s.

Leeuwenbergh

Gli Incogniti Geertekerk

Ghielmi / Pianca TivoliVredenburg

Laurent Stewart Lutherse Kerk

Bob van Asperen TivoliVredenburg

Pierre Hantaï TivoliVredenburg

Luca Guglielmi Lutherse Kerk

Benjamin Bagby RASA

Benjamin Bagby RASA

Tasto Solo Geertekerk

Dance production Theater Kikker

Camerata Trajectina Leeuwenbergh

Huelgas Ensemble Domkerk

16.00 hrs

Malgosia Fiebig (11.00)

Joey Brink (16.15)

Malgosia Fiebig (11.00)

Wilbert Berendsen

17.00 hrs

Stile Antico Jacobikerk

Cappella Mariana Pieterskerk

Gabrieli Consort Jacobikerk

Cinquecento Pieterskerk

17.00 hrs

Ensemble Cordia Geertekerk

La Rêveuse Geertekerk

18.30 hrs

Eventalk (TiVre)

Eventalk (TiVre)

Eventalk (TiVre)

Eventalk (TiVre)

Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

Accademia Bizantina TivoliVredenburg

Vox Luminis/La Fenice TivoliVredenburg

Gabrieli Consort TivoliVredenburg

22.30 hrs

Sempé/Hantaï/Fortin TivoliVredenburg

Phantasm TivoliVredenburg

Hathor Consort TivoliVredenburg

Ensemble Masques TivoliVredenburg

24.00 hrs

Flores / Smith TivoliVredenburg

9.30-18.00 STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg 9.30 hrs

11.00 hrs

13.00 hrs

15.00 hrs

15.00 hrs

20.00 hrs

Hespèrion XXI TivoliVredenburg

Scorpio Collectief Geertekerk

Daily rhythm 9.30 hrs: 11.00 hrs: 13.00 hrs: 15.00 hrs:

summer school chamber music virginalists early repertoire

16.00 hrs: carillon recital 17.00 hrs: Renaissance & Baroque 18.30 hrs: eventalk

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20.00 hrs: big evening concert 22.30 hrs: consorts 24.00 hrs: midnight concert

wed 2 sept

thu 3 sept

fri 4 sept

sat 5 sept

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.00-12.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi Paushuize

9.30-12.30 Cursus semiologie UCK

sun 6 sept

10.00-17.00 Oude Muziek Markt TivoliVredenburg

10.00-12.00 Danscursus UCK

12.00-18.00 Oude Muziek Markt TivoliVredenburg

10.00-18.00 Oude Muziek Markt TivoliVredenburg

11.00 + 12.30 Opening Uitfeest TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Julia Muller TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Jed Wentz TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Peter Holman TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Peter Holman TivoliVredenburg

ZS: Peter Holman TivoliVredenburg

Fantasticus Lutherse Kerk

Ci i / Gratton TivoliVredenburg

Les Basses Réunies TivoliVredenburg

Musica ad Rhenum TivoliVredenburg

Charles Daniels c.s.

TivoliVredenburg

Richard Egarr TivoliVredenburg

Catalina Vicens Lutherse Kerk

Carole Cerasi Lutherse Kerk

Ursula Dütschler Lutherse Kerk

Aapo Häkkinen Lutherse Kerk

Dance production Theater Kikker

La Capilla St.-Willibrordkerk

Azéma / Kammen St.-Willibrordkerk

Dialogos Pieterskerk

La Morra Leeuwenbergh

Het Laboratorium UCK

Paul O’Dette TivoliVredenburg

Capella de la Torre Domkerk

Rien Donkersloot

Frank Deleu

Malgosia Fiebig

Arie Abbenes (11.00)

Malgosia Fiebig

Vox Luminis Pieterskerk

Tallis Scholars Jacobikerk

Doulce Mémoire Pieterskerk

Officium Ensemble Pieterskerk

Cantar Lontano Pieterskerk

Collegium Musicum DH Geertekerk

Mields/Temmingh Geertekerk

Vox Luminis Geertekerk

Barokksolistene Geertekerk

Cappella Amsterdam Geertekerk

Eventalk (TiVre)

Eventalk (TiVre)

Eventalk (TiVre)

Eventalk (TiVre)

Dunedin Consort TivoliVredenburg

La Risonanza TivoliVredenburg

Capriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

L’Arpeggiata TivoliVredenburg

Spes Nostra TivoliVredenburg

Mezzaluna / O’Dette TivoliVredenburg

Barokksolistene TivoliVredenburg

Ricercar Consort TivoliVredenburg

Gli Angeli Genève TivoliVredenburg

Thompson/Zuljan TivoliVredenburg

From the Duke’s Library

Out of Handel’s Shadow

Early Repertoire

Consorts

Vocal polyphony

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Purcell c.s.

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boughton house The central source of inspiration for this festival - both visually and aurally is Boughton House, a stately home to the north-east of London. The house belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, a direct descendant of the Dukes of Montagu. He still lives in the castle with his family.

The original Tudor building, crowned by the typically English forest of chimneys, had a new façade in the French style added to it at the end of the 17th century. Daniel Marot, the Huguenot who fled to the Netherlands and who later travelled to London with King William, worked on Boughton. With so many French influences Boughton lives up to its reputation as the English Versailles. And yet this is every inch an English site, with all the elements – garden, decoration and furnishings – which make a country estate such as this so delightful.

In many different ways we are integrating the atmosphere of Boughton House into the Early Music Festival: in the design, in images, and in sound, since music from the Montagu Collection of Boughton House can be heard almost every day.

We would like to thank the Duke of Buccleuch for opening his house to us and for his unreserved enthusiasm for our project.

In collaboration with Boughton House.

In collaboration with Boughton House.

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T h e Mo n ta g u M us i c C ol l e c t i on i n Boug ht on Hous e

from the duke ’ s library Boughton House will be recreated in sound at the Early Music Festival during a concert series of music from the House’s library. The greater part of the collection was compiled in the 18th century, and offers us an insight into the Montagu family’s private entertainment, and also of the London theatre and concert scene.

Composers such as Byrd, Purcell, Handel and Bononcini are amply represented, with keyboard music, operas and vocal works. Some of the music is well-known, some is now being given the chance to be rediscovered. The Boughton library also houses the choreographies of Baroque dances, including some created by famous dance master Anthony L’Abbé, who was the dance teacher of the Duke’s granddaughters.

During the concert series ‘From the Duke’s Library’ you have the chance to enjoy this music and dance. Some favourite pieces from the collection contain personal annotations or playing instructions from the 18th century.

Wherever possible our festival musicians will play these unique variants. sun 30 aug / 11.00 mon 31 aug / 13.00 tue 1 sep / 9.30 tue 1 sep / 15.00 wed 2 sep / 15.00

Jan De Winne c.s.

Pierre Hantaï Paul Boucher (ZS) Dance production Dance production

thu 3 sep / 11.00 thu 3 sep / 17.00 sat 5 sep / 11.00 sun 6 sep / 17.00

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Ci i & Gratton Mields & Temmingh Musica ad Rhenum Cappella Amsterdam

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

vox luminis lionel meunier Lionel Meunier and his ensemble Vox Luminis have over recent years worked their way to the very forefront of the early music scene. Their international success is not least due to their frequent appearances in Utrecht. We are therefore extra proud to be able to present Vox Luminis this time as artist in residence.

Their residency kicks off with a programme based around the much-loved Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary. Two days later they appear again, now together with Jean Tubery’s La Fenice (25 years old this year), in a concertante performance of King Arthur. In another concert they perform Tudor polyphony, with music by Tallis, White and Tomkins. In their final concert Vox Luminis will sing the Triumphs of Oriana, which were dedicated to Elizabeth I. And then there is another extra: Vox Luminis is providing the musical element of our Eventalk, thus creating a daily moment of reflection [NL: óf creërt een moment… óf zorgt voor een moment…?]. The conclusion of the Eventalk series will happen in grand style, with a performance of Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in Alium.

Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier sat 29 aug / 20.00

wed 2 sep / 17.00

Funeral Sentences

Anthems van Tallis, White, Sheppard

mon 31 aug / 20.00

fri 4 sep / 17.00

King Arthur

The Triumphs of Oriana

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tudor polyphony During the Renaissance the innumerable English cathedrals with their magnificent fan-vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows formed the backdrop for the polyphonic masses and motets of Taverner, Tye, Sheppard, White and many others. Their music also features largely in the Early Music Festival.

The 16th century, the Tudor period, was one of the most turbulent ever in England. The political and religious climate was constantly changing, but culture flourished as never before. The establishment of the Anglican Church

by Henry VIII rendered in one fell swoop an entire repertoire of Latin motets and masses unusable. Under the monarchs who succeeded him England regularly changed religious denomination. This demanded quite a degree of adaptability from composers.

In this festival we are giving particular prominence to Thomas Tallis, the father of Anglican Renaissance polyphony, and William Byrd, a pupil of Tallis and possibly England’s greatest composer of the 16th century. sat 29 aug / 17.00

Stile Antico

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Vox Luminis

sun 30 aug / 17.00

Cappella Mariana

thu 3 sep / 17.00

The Tallis Scholars

sun 30 aug / 15.00

Huelgas Ensemble

fri 4 sep / 17.00

Doulce Mémoire

mon 31 aug / 17.00

Gabrieli Consort

sat 5 sep / 17.00

Officium Ensemble

tue 1 sep / 17.00

Cinquecento

sun 6 sep / 20.00

Gli Angeli Genève

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consorts Around 1500 the viola da gamba, which had originated in Italy, arrived in England. As early as 1520 the first gambists in consort formation appear on the king’s payroll. The term consort refers to both the music ensemble, usually with five or six musicians, and to the musical genre. The instruments in a consort are often all of the same type, for instance gambas or recorders, in different sizes. A ‘broken consort’, on the other hand, consists of all possible combinations.

Consort music originated in vocal polyphony: as well as dance music, consorts played existing vocal compositions. Later on composers wrote specifically for consort. Even so, vocal melodies did sometimes serve as the cantus firmus for a polyphonic instrumentation, for instance in the In Nomine.

Of the various dance forms the pavane and the galliard are the best-known.

During this festival consorts can be heard every evening at 22.30, rounding off each festival day. But also at other times, in small or large numbers and in different formations: with gambas, recorders, singers and even keyboard instruments. fri 28 aug / 20.00

Hespèrion XXI

wed 2 sep / 22.30

Spes Nostra

sat 29 aug / 22.30

Sempé / Hantaï / Fortin

thu 3 sep / 22.30

Mezzaluna & O’Dette

sun 30 aug / 22.30

Phantasm

fri 4 sep / 9.30

Peter Holman (ZS)

mon 31 aug / 22.30

Hathor Consort &

fri 4 sep / 11.00

Les Basses Réunies

Pluto Ensemble

sat 5 sep / 17.00

Barokksolistene

tue 1 sep / 17.00

Scorpio Collectief

sat 5 sep / 24.00

Ricercar Consort

tue 1 sep / 22.30

Ensemble Masques

sun 6 sep / 17.00

Capella de la torre

wed 2 sep / 11.00

Fantasticus

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virginalists The keyboard composers of the late Tudor and Jacobean periods are known as the virginalists. The harpsichord, or virginal, was ideally suitable for virtuoso playing. The repertoire consists of fantasias, In nomines and numerous dances such as pavanes and galliards.

The most important source of the virginalists’ music is the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, named after Viscount Fitzwilliam, who in 1816 donated his collection of manuscripts to Cambridge University. The collection features the music of composers central to this festival: Byrd, Bull, Farnaby, Tomkins and Gibbons.

The line-up for our virginalists series consists of the finest harpsichordists of the moment, including Laurent Stewart, Bob van Asperen and Carole Cerasi.

As the icing on the cake we have added another spectacular concert: Skip Sempé, Pierre Hantaï and Olivier Fortin will play three keyboard instruments in consort. sat 29 aug / 13.00 sat 29 aug / 22.30

sun 30 aug / 13.00

Laurent Stewart Skip Sempé, Pierre Hantaï & Olivier Fortin Bob van Asperen

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thu 3 sep / 13.00 fri 4 sep / 13.00 sat 5 sep / 13.00 sun 6 sep / 13.00

Catalina Vicens Carole Cerasi Ursula Dütschler Aapo Häkkinen

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henry purcell Henry Purcell, known fondly as ‘The English Orpheus’, occupies a unique position in the pantheon of composers of the British Isles. Many of his contemporaries will have envied him his talent for writing such sensual and attractive music. But this same Purcell also wrote the most bizarre and shocking dissonants.

Purcell studied with John Blow, who in 1669 stepped down from his post as organist of Westminster Abbey in favour of his brilliant pupil. We have exquisite church music by Purcell, but he is best known for his theatre music. This can be colourful and cheerful, as in King Arthur, or sensitive, as in tragedies such as Dido and Aeneas, with its heartrending Dido’s Lament.

During this festival we will hear Purcell in all shapes and sizes, including his rarely-played keyboard music. Why? Let’s be honest: simply because we love his music. It’s as simple as that. sat 29 aug / 20.00

Vox Luminis

tue 1 sep / 20.00

sun 30 aug / 17.00

La Rêveuse

Players

mon 31 aug / 11.00

Gli Incogniti

wed 2 sep / 20.00

Dunedin Consort

mon 31 aug / 20.00

Vox Luminis &

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La Risonanza

sat 5 sep / 20.00

L’Arpeggiata

La Fenice

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Gabrieli Consort &

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out of handel ’s shadow In an England festival it might appear obvious to make Handel its glorious central figure, but this great import-Englishman long ago secured his position in the major concert halls. We’d therefore rather devote attention to his less well-known contemporaries, who have been overshadowed by Handel. Among his colleagues – and rivals – we find native Englishmen such as Avison, Boyce and Stanley, Italians working in England, such as Bononcini and Geminiani, and the Dutchmen Fesch and Hellendaal. Their music is given a voice in this festival.

However, we don’t ignore Handel completely: there also exists much repertoire of his that is seldom heard. This includes his keyboard works and violin and traverso sonatas. So we have programmed a dozen concerts under the motto ‘Out of Handel’s Shadow’. On Sunday 6 September the prominent musicologist Peter Holman will study this theme in more depth during the Summer School.

sat 29 aug / 11.00 Collegium 1704 sat 29 aug / 17.00 Ensemble Cordia sun 30 aug / 11.00 Jan De Winne c.s. sun 30 aug / 20.00 Accademia Bizantina mon 31 aug / 13.00 Pierre Hantaï tue 1 sep / 13.00 Luca Guglielmi

wed 2 sep / 17.00 Collegium Musicum DH thu3 sep / 13.00 Ci i & Gratton thu 3 sep / 17.00 Mields & Temmingh sat 5 sep / 11.00 Musica ad Rhenum sun 6 sep / 9.30 Peter Holman (ZS) sun 6 sep / 17.00 Cappella Amsterdam

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eventalk Choral Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music – the Anglican vespers. During this Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht and the Residenties in Utrecht programme, a secular version of evensong, which we have called Eventalk.

The spoken element of Eventalk is being entrusted to thinkers and artists.

They will make a short, inspiring presentation with a twist, like an intellectual haiku. Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical interlude. In this way Eventalk combines a stimulating discourse with beautiful vocal music (in the Hertz hall): a stolen half-hour, just before evening falls. sat 29 aug / 18.30 Jordi Savall, dirigent en gambist sun 30 aug / 18.30 Prof. Rosi Braidotti, Universiteit Utrecht mon 31 aug / 18.30 Dr. Barbara Titus, Universiteit van Amsterdam tue 1 sep / 18.30 Dr. Ernst van den Hemel, Universiteit Utrecht wed 2 sep / 18.30 Prof. Keimpe Algra, Universiteit Utrecht thu 3 sep / 18.30 Prof. Wiljan van den Akker, Universiteit Utrecht fri 4 sep / 18.30 Prof. Josine Blok, Universiteit Utrecht sat 5 sep / 18.30 Prof. Wessel Krul, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen sun 6 sep / 11.00, 12.30 Opening uitfeest met mystery guest + Tallis, Spem in Alium (Grote Zaal) In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Centre for the Humanities, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen. The Eventalk is part of Residenties in Utrecht. In collaboration with Uitfeest / Culturele Zondagen.

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5- da y c our s e i n m e n s u ral not a t i on

mensural notation Anyone who has ever seen a facsimile of a manuscript or early edition of Renaissance polyphony will know that deciphering mensural notation is no simple exercise. But apart from the fact that these sources often look so beautiful, with or without illuminations, it is also an ingenious system for notating polyphony in a very precise manner.

Professor Francesco Luisi, who is co-ordinating the new Palestrina edition in Rome, is giving a 5-day course on mensural notation and the transcription of music from the 15th and 16th centuries. It goes without saying that the focus is on English music. Students will acquire in-depth knowledge about notation systems, and will actively work on transcription exercises. The course will also deal with many aspects involved in the making of editions and the creation of a critical apparatus.

This is not a course for absolute beginners, some experience of reading mensural notation is required. However, students, musicians and those interested in significantly expanding their in-depth knowledge may prepare themselves for one of the most intensive and informative weeks of the year.

By the end of the course students will have gained experience in preparing a critical edition, complete with footnotes and commentary.

Mensural notation za 29 aug t/m wo 2 sep / 9.30-12.30 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten Languages: English / Italian

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M a s t e rc l a s s e s h a r p si chord

piccola accademia di montisi In just a few years the harpsichord summer course held in Montisi, Tuscany – a medieval village in the hills around Siena – has grown to become the most important extracurricular teaching event for up-and-coming keyboard talent.

In Montisi it’s all about the masterclasses: Gustav Leonhardt was guest professor during the early editions of the course, and now the team of permanent professors includes Skip Sempé, Christophe Rousset, Ketil Haugsand, Menno van Delft, Pierre Hantaï and Bob van Asperen. During the free hours intense study is combined with the enjoyment of sun, pasta, olive oil and wine.

This year an extramural edition of Piccola Accademia is taking place during the Early Music Festival. In the morning the students take part in a concentrated and demanding masterclass, after which there is time to enjoy something that is possible only in Utrecht: being ‘infected’ by five or six different concerts while wandering through the historical city centre. For the students Utrecht becomes the site of total immersion, where contact with each other, with the teachers and with the hundreds of festival musicians is the great source of inspiration.

You can also enjoy it all: the masterclasses are open to the public. For keyboard freaks it is the chance of a lifetime to attend lessons given by this year’s three professors, Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé and Bob van Asperen. But in fact everyone who is interested in Baroque music will gain new insights during lessons of this sort.

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.

Language: English.

Maximum of 40 listeners.

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ST I M U -s y m p os i u m 2 0 15

the past is a foreign country …

This year the STIMU symposium poses a stimulating question: what can early music performers and researchers learn from anthropology and ethnomusicology?

The question has been conceived as broadly as possible. Traditions from folk music and their appropriation by Early Musicians constitute a first field of research. Ethnomusicological self-examination, which forces scientists to confront themselves with their own assumptions and conceptions (or preconceptions), is a second topic, one which is crucial for an honest interpretation of the source material. Finally, ideas about collectivity, identity and the human body as a musical archive are also examined.

An international gathering of experts will descend upon Utrecht for this symposium. These include Rebekah Ahrendt (Yale University), Anne Smith (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), Willemien Froneman (University of KwaZuluNatal), Drew Edward Davies (Northwestern University) and Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland). Young researchers will be involved in a forum to present their recent research, and they have a chance of winning the STIMU Prize.

Curators: Barbara Titus and Jed Wentz – Language: English – Location: TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine.

The complete programme will be available from 1 June on oudemuziek.nl/symposium.

With support from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen and the Fentener van Vlissingen Fund.

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summer school The Summer School is for anyone who wishes to know more about the whys and wherefores of the music in this festival. Unlike the symposium, which is more academic in scope, the Summer School is a series of introductory lectures meant for scholars and laymen alike. They will be delivered by experts in the field, either in Dutch or English. We are honoured that Peter Holman, an absolute authority in the area of English music, will be our scholar in residence, and deliver three of these lectures. sat 29 aug, 9.30-10.30 Thérèse de Goede ‘Beastialities: why does English music sound so English? (NL)

thu 3 sep, 9.30-10.30 Jed Wentz Arnold Dolmetsch, William Morris and authenticity (EN)

sun 30 aug, 9.30-10.30 Jennifer Thorp ‘The Devil’s Grasshoppers’: 18th-century dancing masters (EN)

fri 4 sep, 9.30-10.30 Peter Holman From Parsons to Purcell: English consorts (EN)

mon 31 aug, 9.30-10.30 Katerina Lindekens Restoration Opera (NL)

sa 5 sep, 9.30-10.30 Peter Holman Gentlemen & Players (EN)

tue 1 sep, 9.30-10.30 Paul Boucher The Montagu Music Collection in Boughton House (EN)

sun 6 sep, 9.30-10.30 Peter Holman Out of Handel’s Shadow (EN)

wed 2 sep, 9.30-10.30 Julia Muller-Van Santen Netherlands v. England (NL)

With the support of Provinciaal Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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carillon festival The Early Music Carillon Festival is celebrating its 5th anniversary! For the fifth year in a row a carillon concert will take place every day in the centre of Utrecht, this year with exclusively English programming.

The carillon concerts will take place in between the other concerts in the Early Music Festival, so that the carillon music will accompany you on your way to your next concert venue. If you feel like sitting down to listen, you can do so at Flora’s Hof (corner of Domplein and Servetstraat). Do you want to listen in even greater comfort? A voucher which you can pick up in the Festival Centre in TivoliVredenburg entitles you to a special offer at two restaurants near the Dom Tower. And of course the free carillon programme of the day will be handed out at the location.

It goes without saying that Utrecht’s city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig will play a major role in the Early Music Carillon Festival. And true to tradition she has also invited several prominent colleagues to take part. Young and up-andcoming talent can be heard during the carillon fringe.

Are you curious as to what actually happens up in the Dom Tower during a concert like this? Then come and take a peek at the carillon on 29 August or 5 September. On 2 September there is also a guided tour for children (6+).

The carillon voucher is valid at: Restaurant De Rechtbank (Korte Nieuwstraat 14) Brasserie Domplein (Domplein 20)

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friday 28 augustus 9.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi

18.45 Utrechts Klokkenluiders Gilde

Paushuize

9.30 STIMU-symposium

20.00 Hespèrion XXI

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

18.00 Malgosia Fiebig

22.30 The Newcastle Kingsmen

TivoliVredenburg

Dom Tower

Dom Tower

Eng la n d , m y E n g l a n d

opening The consort music of the late Renaissance is the best example of the miraculous inventiveness of the English genius. With minimal resources - a handful of musicians, a few simple instruments – a musical world comes to life where open movement, rhythm and dance is interspersed with moments of sweet melancholy. This year the opening concert will not feature a large orchestra with trumpets, but an intimate group of the best viol players of our time, in the delightful company of the ten best musicians of Hespèrion XXI. As every year, the opening night will kick off with a carillon concert and the bells of the Dom Tower. Moreover, there will be an important visitor from England: the Newcastle Kingsmen, a renowned group of British dancers, will give a stunning performance with flashing swords.

18.00 – 18.45 18.45 – 19.00 19.30 – 19.45 20.00

22.30

Carillon concert by Malgosia Fiebig (Domtoren) Bell ringing for opening festival (Domtoren) The Newcastle Kingsmen (TivoliVredenburg) Openingconcert by Hèsperion XXI led by Jordi Savall The Newcastle Kingsmen: pub session (TivoliVredenburg)

The opening concert of the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2015 is realized with the support of the Turing Foundation.

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fri 28 aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

order number 02

Opening concert: The golden age of the gamba

from the early 17th century onwards the instrument became increasingly popular among enlightened amateurs. The golden age of consort music – preferably with a complete set of gambas being played simultaneously – had dawned, with composers like Holborne, Dowland, Gibbons and Ferrabosco. To claim that Jordi Savall has almost single-handedly been responsible for a broader acceptance and popularity of the consort repertoire is scarcely an exaggeration.

For this opening concert he has selected dances and instrumental polyphony from the time of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I.

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall

The viola da gamba came into being in Italy around 1500, and, once it had crossed the Channel, became a huge hit in England. During Elizabeth I’s reign the gamba was the instrument of professional court musicians, but

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saturday 29 augustus 9.00

Festival Centre

13.00 Laurent Stewart

TivoliVredenburg

9.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi

14.00 Fringe

Lutherse Kerk

various locations

Paushuize

15.00 Benjamin Bagby 9.30

Semiotics course

RASA

UCK

15.00 Camerata Trajectina 9.30 Summer school:

Thérèse de Goede

Leeuwenbergh

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe

9.30

various locations

STIMU-symposium

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Stile Antico Jacobikerk

11.00 Collegium 1704 TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Ensemble Cordia Geertekerk

11.00 Malgosia Fiebig

Dom Tower

18.30 Eventalk TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe

various locations

20.00 Vox Luminis TivoliVredenburg

12.00 Utrechts Klokken luiders Gilde

22.30 Sempé / Hantaï / Fortin

TivoliVredenburg

Churchtowers Utrecht

12.30 Fabulous Fringe

24.00 Smith / Flores

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

sat 29 aug / 9.00-12.00 Paushuize € 12

order number 03

sat 29 aug / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

€ 5

order number 04

Harpsichord Masterclass with Pierre Hantaï

Summer school: Thérèse de Goede

The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht. A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

‘Beastialities’: why does English music sound so English?

The most striking aspect of English music of the 17th century is the tension in the harmony: at crucial moments the voices chafe against each other, or a ‘blue note’ sounds. This caused the 18th-century musicologist Charles Burney to call these clashing sounds ‘beastialities’. Thérèse de Goede discusses the idiomatic aspects of this music and demonstrates them on the harpsichord .

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.

Held in English.

With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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sat 29 aug / 11.00 sat 29 aug / 11.00

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Dom Tower, Flora’s Hof € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 05 free

Collegium 1704 / Václav Luks

Malgosia Fiebig

Out of Handel’s Shadow:

Boyce, Blow, Croft and Purcell on carillon

Avison’s trio sonatas

Utrecht’s city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig will make the Hemony carillon in the Dom Tower warble with suites and symphonies by English Baroque composers. In Boyce, Blow, Croft and Purcell she has chosen four figures with a strong sense of drama.

Charles Avison did not mince his words.

In his Essay on Musical Expression (1752) he dared to criticize his immensely popular colleague Handel.

By doing so he practically caused a public riot. Not much of Avison’s music is heard in concert halls these days, except perhaps his 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti. In this programme we will hear his virtuoso sonatas, inspired

by Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concert. Václav Luks, last year an artist in residence, is tackling this music, and that promises fireworks!

+ Having 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 Dom Tower, Domplein 21. € 10 pp

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sat 29 aug / 12.00 Churchtowers Utrecht

sat 29 aug / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk

free A € 18 / € 16 / € 10

Utrecht Bellringers Guild

B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

order number 07

Laurent Stewart

Bell ringing & walks

Virginalists: Gibbons and Dowland

The Utrecht Bellringers Guild will literally be (b)ringing the bells of the entire city centre to life. It will begin with all fourteen bells in the Dom Tower, which can only be heard simultaneously a few times a year. Then bells in other churches will 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 will keep a close track of the bell relay.

In our virginalists series we get the ball rolling with the great poet among the harpsichordists of today: the Frenchman Laurent Stewart. We’ll hear keyboard music by Orlando Gibbons, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal under James I and organist of Westminster Abbey. Gibbons’ polyphonic fantasias can be heard alongside dances which bear his typical, melodious signature.

Dowland’s contribution consists of arrangements which a contemporary of his made of his melancholy lute pieces.

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

Free, but a limited number of participants.

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sat 29 aug / 15.00 RASA € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 08

sat 29 aug / 15.00

Benjamin Bagby

Leeuwenbergh

Beowulf € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 09

Camerata Trajectina

Precisely 25 years ago the festival programmer of the day, Jan Nuchelmans, invited the American medieval specialist Benjamin Bagby to create a production based around the Old English epic Beowulf. It became a big success, and this England-themed festival naturally cries out for a revival. The story of Beowulf and his struggle against the monster Grendel was handed down in a manuscript from the 10th century, but audiences were probably already listening to this tale centuries earlier.

As if we were sitting together around the hearth: this is how Bagby compels us to follow the story, accompanying himself on an Anglo-Saxon harp.

Dowland in Holland

Dowland’s popular First and Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (with lute) did not go unnoticed in the Dutch Republic. Thus the Remonstrant minister Dirck Rafaelszoon Campuysen made a ‘cover version’ of Dowland’s wellknown Flow my teares, with his own tekst: ‘Traen, oogen, traen’ (‘Weep, eyes, weep.’) Many others would do the same. The seven singers and instrumentalists of Camerata Trajectina present the most remarkable examples of English influence in the Netherlands.

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sat 29 aug / 17.00 Geertekerk

sat 29 aug / 17.00

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Jacobikerk

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 11

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

Ensemble Cordia / Stefano Veggetti

order number 10

Stile Antico

Out of Handel’s Shadow:

Sheppard: Media Vita

Symphonies by Boyce

Stile Antico is celebrating its tenth birthday. During those ten years this English group has gained a reputation as the most exciting Renaissance ensemble from the other side of the Channel.

The six-part and extremely expressive Media Vita, a reflection on the fragility of human life, forms the centrepiece of their programme based around the brilliant Tudor composer John Sheppard, who was employed by the Chapel Royal.

Maybe it is as a result of the inadequate availability of his music that this original composer is today much less well-known than his contemporaries Taverner en Tallis, whose equal he is.

‘This is the best Baroque orchestra of the moment’, Jos van Immerseel recently let slip in reference to Ensemble Cordia. As a recommendation it’s worth a lot. And now the group from South Tyrol is appearing for the first time in Utrecht, under the direction of Baroque cellist Stefano Veggetti.

They are breaking a lance for William Boyce, Master of the King’s Music under George II and III, publisher of the sacred music of Byrd and Purcell and composer of anthems, odes and symphonies. Today it’s the turn of his symphonies – inventive, cheerful and simply delightful.

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sat 29 aug / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

sat 29 aug - sun 6 sep / from 9.00 TivoliVredenburg

free

Eventalk Festival Centre Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music. During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk. Today Jordi Savall will give you some food for thought by means of a brief discourse – like an intellectual haiku. Artist in residence Vox Luminiswill provide a musical intervention.

Fancy taking the weight off your feet during the Early Music Festival? And having a cup of coffee or a glass of ale to help you recover? Then come to the Festival Centre in Tivoli/Vredenburg.

We open the doors every day at 9 a.m. and in between events you can have something to eat or drink, and visit the Festival CD shop and of course our Festival box office. This is also the venue for workshops, lectures and the free lunchtime concert in the Large Hall. Welcome!

In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen and Centre for the Humanities and Cultural Sundays. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

The central Festival box office and CD shop are open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m.

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sat 29 aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

order number 12

Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier

smallpox. Her husband and co-regent, the Dutch Prince Willem, was inconsolable, as were many of her English subjects. For her theatrical funeral on 5 March 1695 in Westminster Abbey Henry Purcell, only a few months before his own death, wrote the impressive and moving Funeral Music for Queen Mary and the elegy O dive custos.

Purcell: Funeral Sentences

Artist in residence Vox Luminis begin their residency with an exclusively Purcell programme based around Queen Mary II. Best-known is the music for her funeral. Mary died on 28 December 1694, at the age of 32, of 44

sat 29 aug / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 13

sat 29 aug / 24.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Skip Sempé / Pierre Hantaï / Olivier Fortin

€ 12 / € 10 / € 7

Consorts: three keyboards

order number 14

Mariana Flores & Hopkinson Smith

In the consort music series we will hear a formation which today is rare, but in its time was standard, and which simply could not be absent from the series: the whole consort, with several keyboard instruments. Sempé, Fortin en Hantaï: with three musicians of this calibre on the stage together, this will be music-making with no punches pulled. This will be a de luxe concert, in which two harpsichords and a virginal join together in a generous miscellany – from crackling fireworks to subdued pavanes – from the keyboard repertoire of the Tudor age.

Dowland and Morley: lute songs

Mariana Flores and Hopkinson Smith round off this festival day with an intimate concert of songs and lute pieces

by John Dowland and Thomas Morley.

After Dowland had been refused a job as court musician, he left England. The experiences he had during his travel through Germany and Italy left traces in the lute songs he composed at that time. His often melancholy songs were also very popular on the Continent.

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sunday 30 augustus 9.00 Festival Centre

14.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

9.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi

14.00 Children’s treausure hunt

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

Paushuize

15.00 Benjamin Bagby 9.30 Semiotics course

RASA

UCK

15.00 Huelgas Ensemble 9.30 Summer school:

Jennifer Thorp

Domkerk

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe

various locations

9.30 STIMU-symposium TivoliVredenburg

16.15 Joey Brink

Dom Tower

10.00 Workshop shape note singing

17.00 Cappella Mariana

UCK

Pieterskerk

11.00 De Winne / Delage / Testori

17.00 La RĂŞveuse Geertekerk

Leeuwenbergh

18.30 Eventalk 11.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

various locations

20.00 Accademia Bizantina 12.30 Fabulous Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Phantasm 13.00 Bob van Asperen TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

sun 30 aug / 9.00-12.00 Paushuize € 12

sun 30 aug / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine

order number 15

€ 5

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

order number 16

Summer school: Jennifer Thorp

Harpsichord Masterclass with Pierre Hantaï

‘The Devil’s Grasshoppers’: 18th-century

The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht. A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

dancing masters

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen

In preparation for the dance performances on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jennifer Thorp will tell us about the English and French dancing masters who worked in England during the 18th century. The French style of dancing, in which most of them were trained, was evidently considered sensational by the English. Some contemporaries referred to these dancing masters as ‘the Children of Terpsichore’, while others called them ‘the Devil’s Grasshoppers’...

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.

Held in English.

Language: English With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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sun 30 aug / 10.00-14.30 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten € 25 inclusief lunch

order number 17

Workshop shape note singing / Cath Tyler

sun 30 aug / 11.00

Sacred Harp

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

Leeuwenbergh order number 18

Jan De Winne / Marco Testori / Aurélien Delage

Do you like to sing? ‘Shape note singing’, also called ‘Sacred Harp’, is the most democratic choral singing in the world. Cath Tyler is leading this workshop about a form of singing which has its roots in 16th-century England.

The principle is based on solmization – singing on fa, sol, la and mi – which makes it unnecessary to be able to sight-read. The energy with which the music, often English folk songs, is sung is impressive. Singers from the international Sacred Harp community are also participating in these workshops.

Out of Handel’s Shadow: traverso sonatas

by Handel

The Flemish traverso player Jan De Winne juxtaposes Handel’s traverso sonatas with seldom- performed works

by John Stanley and James Oswald, works that can be found in the Boughton House collection. Harpsichordist Aurélien Delage will also play an arrangement of an overture by Handel from a unique Boughton manuscript, according to annotations added there in the 18th century.

10.00 workshop 13.00 lunch 14.00 presentatie in fringe

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sun 30 aug / 13.00 sun 30 aug / 14.00-15.30

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

TivoliVredenburg B € 18 / € 16 / € 10

order number 19 € 5

Bob van Asperen

order number 20

Children’s treausure hunt

Virginalists: John Bull

For children between 5 and 10 years old

Doctor Bull – he received his doctorate in Cambridge – worked at the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I, and under James I was appointed music teacher to the king’s children. Nonetheless, in 1613 he fled, ‘without licence’, to the Continent, never to return to England. Bull went to work for the Austrian governor general Albrecht in Brussels, and later became organist in Antwerp. He got to know Sweelinck; one of Bull’s fantasias is even based on a theme of the Dutchman’s. Bob van Asperen presents a personal anthology choen from Bull’s oeuvre.

Do you want to know what it looks like behind the scenes in TivoliVredenburg?

Or have you always wanted to stand on the stage in the Large Hall? Take part in this musical treasure hunt! Our guide will lead you on an exciting journey to see all sorts of hidden nooks and crannies and musical treasures. As a musical explorer you will get to know TivoliVredenburg inside and out.

NB: no parents allowed!

For the parents: Report to the information counter in the Festival Centre.

The treasure hunt lasts c. 75 minutes.

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sun 30 aug / 15.00 Dom Church

sun 30 aug / 15.00 RASA € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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

order number 21

order number 22

Huelgas Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel

Benjamin Bagby Beowulf

The Eton Choirbook

Precisely 25 years ago the festival programmer of the day, Jan Nuchelmans, invited the American medieval specialist Benjamin Bagby to create a production based around the Old English epic Beowulf. It became a big success, and this England-themed festival naturally cries out for a revival. The story of Beowulf and his struggle against the monster Grendel was handed down in a manuscript from the 10th century, but audiences were probably already listening to this tale centuries earlier. As if we were sitting together around the hearth: this is how Bagby compels us to follow the story, accompanying himself on an Anglo-Saxon harp.

The Eton Choirbook dates from the beginning of the 16th century, and is the most important source of English polyphony from the Tudor era. The manuscript was used daily in the prestigious Eton College during the Salve.

The collection contains 92 often virtuoso settings of the Magnificat, Salve Regina and Marian motets in the socalled English florid style. The Huelgas Ensemble juxtaposes the Stabat Mater

by John Brown with other breathtaking works by William Horwood, John Sutton and Robert Wilkinson.

Duration: 75 minutes.

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sun 30 aug / 17.00 Pieterskerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10

sun 30 aug, 16.15

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

Dom Tower, Flora’s Hof

order number 23

Cappella Mariana / Vojt ch Semerád

free

Joey Brink

Motets by Byrd and Tallis

Byrd, Dowland and Purcell on carillon

The Czech Renaissance ensemble Cappella Mariana was the great revelation of the Early Music Festival 2014 – Habsburg. The singers (including Hana Blažíková and Tomáš Král) are returning this year with motets which the Roman Catholic William Byrd published in 1589 as ‘non-liturgical chamber music’, but which were actually designed to hearten his oppressed fellow-Catholics.

Thomas Tallis’ Salvator Mundi rounds off the programme..

Joey Brink studied carillon and mechanical engineering at the University of Yale (USA) and is at present pursuing his studies further with D’hollander in Lake Wales, Florida. Brink won various prizes for his playing, including first prize in the International Carillon Competition Queen Fabiola in 2014 in Mechelen. In this programme he will play arrangements of works by Byrd, Dowland and Purcell.

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sun 30 aug / 17.00 Geertekerk

sun 30 aug / 18.30

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

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

order number 24

free

La Rêveuse / Florence Bolton & Benjamin Perrot

Eventalk

Psalms by Purcell & divisions by Finger

The three-part psalm settings of Purcell are conspicuous for their inventiveness.

Purcell makes the parts jostle with each other, varies the tempi and makes maximum use of dissonant effects, the so-called false relations, in order to illustrate the despair contained in the text. Ensemble La Rêveuse completes the programme with divisions or series of variations by the Moravian gamba virtuoso Gottfried Finger, who worked at the court of James II.

Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music. During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk . Prof. Rosi Braidotti (UU) will speak about ‘Music, Drugs and Emancipation: on Bach’s Coffee Cantata.’ Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical intervention.

Soloists: Jeffrey Thompson, tenor Marc Mauillon, baritone Geoffroy Buffière, bass

In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen and Centre for the Humanities and Cultural Sundays. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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sun 30 aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 26 / € 10

order number 25

Vriendenconcert

Accademia Bizantina / Ottavio Dantone

is at present the orchestra for early 18th-century repertoire. They combine perfect ensemble playing (‘one huge string quartet’) with compelling interpretations. And today they’re performing a mega-programme: cheerful concerti grossi and keyboard concerti by the English composers Croft, Boyce, Stanley and Avison, and by Alessandro Scarlatti, whose concerti grossi were published in London in 1740.

Out of Handel’s Shadow: Stanley, Boyce, Corbett and Scarlatti

We would venture to assert that the concert by the Accademia Bizantina will be one of the most exciting of the entire festival: harpsichordist and conductor Ottavio Dantone’s group 54

sun 30 aug / 22.30

sat 29 aug - sun 6 sep / from 9.00

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

TivoliVredenburg order number 26

Phantasm / Laurence Dreyfus

Festival Centre

Lawes: Royal Consorts

Father of Musick is how Charles I described his favourite composer William Lawes. His royal consorts are daring and very modern-sounding chamber music: Lawes deliberately pushes the boundaries of harmony, part-writing and rhythm. The gamba consort Phantasm has recorded the four-part consorts. They put poetry, passion and expression first, with respect for the underlying logic of the dance.

Fancy taking the weight off your feet during the Early Music Festival? And having a cup of coffee or a glass of ale to help you recover? Then come to the Festival Centre in Tivoli/Vredenburg.

We open the doors every day at 9 a.m. and in between events you can have something to eat or drink, and visit the Festival CD shop and of course our Festival box office. This is also the venue for workshops, lectures and the free lunchtime concert in the Large Hall. Welcome!

On Monday 31 August Laurence Dreyfus will give a masterclass for consorts

The central Festival box office and CD shop areopen from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m.van 9.00 tot 20.00 .

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monday 31 augustus 9.00 Festival Centre

13.00 Pierre Hanta誰

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

9.00 Piccola Accademia di Montisi

13.00 A Guide to Early Music

various locations

Paushuize

14.00 Fringe 9.30 Semiotics Course

various locations

UCK

15.00 Tasto Solo 9.30 Summer school:

Katherina Lindekens

Geertekerk

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe

various locations

10.00 Masterclass Dreyfus 17.00 Gabrieli Consort

UCK

Jacobikerk

10.00 Workshop barokdans 18.30 Eventalk

UCK

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Gli Incogniti 20.00 La Fenice & Vox Luminis

Geertekerk

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Malgosia Fiebig

22.30 Hathor Consort & Pluto-Ensemble

Dom Tower

11.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

various locations

12.30 Fabulous Fringe TivoliVredenburg

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mon 31 aug / 9.00-12.00 Paushuize € 12

order number 27

sat 29 aug - sun 6 sep / from 9.00

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

TivoliVredenburg

Masterclass klavecimbel met Skip Sempé

Festival Centre The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht. A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

Fancy taking the weight off your feet during the Early Music Festival? And having a cup of coffee or a glass of ale to help you recover? Then come to the Festival Centre in Tivoli/Vredenburg.

We open the doors every day at 9 a.m. and in between events you can have something to eat or drink, and visit the Festival CD shop and of course our Festival box office. This is also the venue for workshops, lectures and the free lunchtime concert in the Large Hall. Welcome!

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen

The central Festival box office and CD shop are open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m.

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi. Held in English.

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mon 31 aug / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine € 5

mon 31 aug / 10.00-14.30 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten

order number 28

€ 12

Summer school: Katherina Lindekens

order number 29

Masterclass: Laurence Dreyfus

Restoration opera

English consort music

The Restoration of the English monarchy, when after the fall of Cromwell Charles II came to the throne, marks an era during which English music theatre experienced a remarkable heyday.

Purcell is the most significant exponent of this genre. Katherina Lindekens discusses both the ‘dramatick’ and the ‘all-sung’ opera genres in the light of Purcell’s works, and analyses the roots of Restoration opera in the masque and French opera. Lindekens studies literary theory and is a musicologist, and is doing a PhD in English opera.

In this masterclass a select number of young ensembles is given the opportunity of learning from the best: Laurence Dreyfus is a prominent musicologist and gambist. He is founder of the gamba consort Phantasm, and until recently taught in Oxford. Dreyfus deals with different aspects of consort playing in the light of works of English Renaissance composers.

You can observe the whole process. At 14.00 there is a closing presentation.

Language: Dutch With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

10.10.00-13.30 masterclass 14.00-14.30 (free) presentation in fringe

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mon 31 aug / 11.00 Geertekerk € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 31

mon 31 aug / 10.00-12.00 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten € 25

Gli Incogniti / Amandine Beyer

order number 30

Nicola Matteis: False Consonances

Rachel Farr

of Musick

Workshop Baroque dance: Pavane & Galliard

Sust one bow stroke separates our world from that of Nicola Matteis, according to the French violinist Amandine Beyer. Matteis was the first notable Italian violinist to make a career for himself in England. He arrived in London in about 1670, and he is associated with the start of the English preference for the Italian style of violin playing. Matteis was a virtuoso sound wizard, and his music induces an almost magical alienation. The bizarre rhythms and harmonies make his charming dances exceptionally exciting for today’s listeners.

Queen Elizabeth I was patroness of the arts, and her reign saw an extraordinary blossoming of English music. Furthermore she adored dancing. It is said that the volta was her favourite, and that she particularly liked dancing it with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. During this workshop you can dance the Elizabethan pavane and galliard to music by Dowland and contemporaries. mon 31 aug: Pavane & Galliard tues 1 sep: Contredanse & Hornpipe wed 2 sep: Menuet & Jig

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mon 31 aug / 13.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 18 / € 16 / € 10

order number 32

Pierre Hantaï Out of Handel’s Shadow: keyboard suites

by Handel

mon 31 aug / 11.00 Dom Tower

The great Handel is loved for his operas and oratoria, but his chamber music is given too little attention, and the keyboard music even has a dubious reputation. Totally unjustly, in Pierre Hantaï’s opinion. Furthermore, the Great Suites form a link between Handel and the Montagu family of Boughton House: the copy of Handel’s harpsichord suites which can be found in Boughton House was probably lesson material for Lady Mary, the daughter of the Duke of Montagu, for her harpsichord lessons with John Ernest Galliard.

And so keyboard composer Handel today steps out of his own shadow…

free

Malgosia Fiebig Purcells King Arthur on carillon

In her carillon concert city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig anticipates the concert being given this evening in the Large Hall in TivoliVredenburg: Purcell’s merry chamber opera King Arthur. The programme includes preludes, airs and choral pieces such as How blest are the Shepherds.

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mon 31 aug / 13.00 various locations € 105 / € 90

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A Guide to Early Music with Saskia Coolen

mon 31 aug / 15.00 Geertekerk

Extended due to overwhelming success: the Guide to Early Music. With specialist Saskia Coolen you will embark on an exploration of performance practice in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Coolen will outline for you the musical characteristics of each style era, and during the concerts that follow you can immediately apply the knowledge you have acquired. While walking to the concert locations and during dinner there will be time to discuss your experiences with others.

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

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Tasto Solo Dunstaple and Dufay: Keyes and Musick

At the court of Henry VIII the organetto and clavisimbalum were still being used extensively, although these Gothic instruments were by then in fact a tad old-fashioned. But the king was a fan of the ‘older mastyrs of musycke’ like Dufay and Dunstaple, and owned various manuscripts of their works.

Guillermo Pérez and David Catalunya, the young specialists on these refined keyboard instruments, are playing pavanes, consorts and puzzle canons from the early 16th century.

13.00 introduction – UCK 15.00 concert Tasto Solo – Geertekerk 17.00 concert Gabrieli Consort – Jacobikerk 18.00 dinner – Restaurant Naast de Markt 20.00 concert La Fenice & Vox Luminis – TivoliVredenburg Maximum of 40 participants.

Includes voucher for free programme book (value € 10.)

The Guide will be repeated on 2 and 4 September.

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mon 31 aug / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz free

mon 31 aug / 17.00

Eventalk

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

Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music. During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk. Dr. Barbara Titus of the University of Amsterdam reflects on the occupation earlier this year of the Maagdenhuis (the University’s main administrative building.) Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical intervention.

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Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh Of a Rose I Sing

The Gabrieli Consort can be heard again in Utrecht for the first time in ten years; an England festival is of course unthinkable without them. They will sing two of the most beautiful 16thcentury Marian antiphons: Tallis’ Gaude Gloriosa and Vox Patris Caelestis by William Mundy. Paul McCreesh completes the programme with two short works by two 20th-century composers, whose sound idiom has close links with that of their Renaissance colleagues.

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

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mon 31 aug / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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La Fenice / Jean Tubery Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier

dance music and beautiful arias, such as Fairest Isle. Wizards, knights, sirens and elves: in the capable hands of La Fenice (25 years old this year) and artist in residence Vox Luminis, this colourful spectacle is guaranteed to provide a concert evening not to be missed.

Purcell: King Arthur

Nikolaus Harnoncourt described Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur, or the British Worthy (1691) as ‘the first musical in history’, and that’s not such a silly idea. The patriotic libretto by John Dryden is not about the Arthur Sagas as we know them, but depicts the fierce conflict between the Britons of King Arthur and the Saxons, often with a humorous undertone. Purcell’s setting is brilliant: lively, full of merry

Soloists: Caroline Weynants (Philidel) Tomáš Král (Aeolus, Grimbald) Sophie Junker (Nereid, Cupid) Sebastian (Cold genius) Lionel Meunier (Pan) Kristen Witmer, Robert Buckland, Olivier Berten, Sebastian Myrus (Comus) Zsuzsi Tóth, Kristen Witmer (Venus) Kristen Witmer (Honour)

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mon 31 aug / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Hathor Consort / Romina Lischka Pluto-Ensemble / Marnix De Cat

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Consorts: Tomkins’ Voyces & Viols

Thomas Tomkins continued composing English polyphony in the same vein as his teacher William Byrd. At the same time he played with the expressive innovations that blew over from Italy.

This makes Tomkins the great innovator of English music between Byrd and Purcell. The gambists and singers of Hathor and Pluto draw on Tomkins’ oeuvre and juxtapose consort playing with consort singing.

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tuesday 1 september 9.00 Festival Centre

14.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

9.00 Piccola Accademia

di Montisi

15.00 Dansvoorstelling

various locations

Theater Kikker

Paushuize

15.30 Fringe 9.30 Semiotics course

various locations

UCK

16.00 Wilbert Berendsen 9.30 Summer school:

Paul Boucher

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Cinquecento

Dom Tower

Pieterskerk

10.00 Workshop barokdans UCK

17.00 Scorpio Collectief Geertekerk

11.00 Ghielmi & Pianca TivoliVredenburg

18.30 Eventalk TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Fringe

various locations

20.00 Gabrieli Consort TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Ensemble Masques TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Luca Guglielmi

Lutherse Kerk

tue 1 sep / 9.00-12.00 Paushuize € 12

tue 1 sep / 9.30

order number 38

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

€ 5

order number 39

Harpsichord Masterclass with Skip Sempé

Summer school: Paul Boucher

The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht. A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

The Montagu Music Collection in Boughton House

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen

Paul Boucher is curator of the Montagu Music Collection of Boughton House.

The remarkably eclectic collection contains musical and dance repertoire from the 16th century onwards, but the greater part of the collection was compiled in the 18th century. It is a very personal collection, which offers us a unique view of a family’s private entertainment, but also of the London theatre and concert scene.

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.

Held in English.

Language: English With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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tue 1 sep / 10.00-12.00 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten € 25

sat 29 aug - sun 6 sep / from 9.00

order number 40

TivoliVredenburg

Rachel Farr Workshop barokdans:

Festival Centre

The English Dancing Master

In Purcell’s day it was not unusual to use popular melodies from theatre and opera for other purposes. For example, the upper middle class found it a pleasant pastime to dance contredanses to this music in ballrooms. A well-known source of this repertoire is Playford’s The English Dancing Master, which contains numerous choreographies. During this workshop you will dance The Hole in the Wall, found in this collection and set to music by Henry Purcell.

Fancy taking the weight off your feet during the Early Music Festival? And having a cup of coffee or a glass of ale to help you recover? Then come to the Festival Centre in Tivoli/Vredenburg.

We open the doors every day at 9 a.m. and in between events you can have something to eat or drink, and visit the Festival CD shop and of course our Festival box office. This is also the venue for workshops, lectures and the free lunchtime concert in the Large Hall. Welcome!

mon 31 aug: Pavane, Galliard & Volta tues 1 sep: Contredanse & Hornpipe wed 2 sep: Menuet & Jig

The central Festival box office and CD shop are open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m.

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tue 1 sep / 11.00

tue 1 sep / 13.00

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Lutherse Kerk order number 41

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

Vittorio Ghielmi & Luca Pianca

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Luca Guglielmi

Simpson: Upon a Ground

Out of Handel’s Shadow: Draghi & Bononcini

Luca Pianca and Vittorio Ghielmi really are born musicians, and as a duo they are unequalled. Their programme explores one of the best-loved English forms of improvisation: the ground. The structure of the piece is provided by a short, repeated motif in the bass part, upon which others improvise. Thomas Simpson, the son of a cobbler, wrote some of the most virtuoso grounds of the 17th century for the most popular instruments: the lute and the viola da gamba.

Giovanni Battista Draghi and Giovanni Bononcini are two of the many Italians who came to England in the 17th and 18th centuries. Gianbattista Draghi arrived in 1662 and caused a sensation as a keyboard player. As far as Bononcini is concerned: it took the English until 1720 to persuade this world-famous star to come to London. The Italian harpsichordist Luca Guglielmi juxtaposes Bononcini’s Divertimenti da camera with suites by Draghi.

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tue 1 sep / 15.00 Theater Kikker € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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Les Corps Éloquents / Hubert Hazebroucq

tue 1 sep / 16.00 Dom Tower, Flora’s Hof

Dance production: Dance and the Dukes free

of Montagu

Wilbert Berendsen

The library of Boughton House contains not only editions of music of Purcell and others, but also choreographies of Baroque dances. Les Corps Éloquents present dances by the Parisian choreographer Anthony L’Abbé, who performed for the English king in London in 1698, to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully. L’Abbé was also dance teacher to the granddaughters of the 1st Duke of Buccleuch.

Dowland, Byrd, Purcell on carillon

Wilbert Berendsen is cantor and organist of the Martinikerk in Doesburg and studies carillon in Utrecht. He will play works by English composers of the 16th and 17 th centuries: arrangements of vocal polyphony by Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye; pavanes by William Byrd and John Dowland and Music for a while by Henry Purcell.

In collaboration with The Utrecht Festival Dance Band.

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tue 1 sep / 17.00 Geertekerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 45

tue 1 sep / 17.00

Scorpio Collectief / Simen van Mechelen

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

William Byrd: England and the Continent

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Cinquecento

It is fascinating to see how the English around 1600 were hostile to every form of Roman Catholicism, but at the same time, as far as music went, had an insatiable appetite for everything Italian. William Byrd, who incidentally remained faithful to the Pope, did not develop his style in isolation from what was happening in Europe. Together with Reinoud Van Mechelen, Scorpio Collectief presents consort music, songs and madrigals by Byrd, Dowland and Continental colleagues such as Vecchi and Lassus.

Christopher Tye: motets

If more of Christopher Tye’s oeuvre had withstood the ravages of time, he would now definitely be as wellknown as Thomas Tallis. Tye worked at King’s College Cambridge and Ely Cathedral, but later in life also became teacher and advisor to King Edward VI. As a prominent court musician with Protestant leanings Tye was one of the most influential composers of his day.

But speech is silver, singing is golden: Cinquecento pays homage toTye and illustrates why he deserves his place among the greats of the English Renaissance.

The special instrumentation, with cornetts and trombones, is modelled on James I’s His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts.

With Reinoud Van Mechelen, tenor

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tue 1 sep / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz free

Eventalk Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music. During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk. Today Dr Ernst van den Hemel, UU, will discuss Rederijkers (Rhetoricians), Religious Protest and Musical Rebellion. Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical intervention.

Every fe s t i v al day TivoliVredenburg

Het Gegeven Paard Would you like to enjoy a cup of coffee before your next concert? Or would you like to evaluate the concert with a bite to eat? Be welcome during the festival at Het Gegeven Paard, the bar in TivoliVredenburg for a scone with tea, a good pint of English beer or for dinner. The menu, of course, has an English touch.

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

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tue 1 sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh

ter Purcell, became fascintaed with the piece. His Hymn to Saint Cecilia contains elements from Purcell’s music, such as the ground bass. Britten wrote this ode during his perilous voyage from America to Europe in 1942, and it is a virtual miracle that he was able to compose such brilliant, vital music in such circumstances. The Gabrieli Consort rounds out this festive programme with Purcell’s early work Welcome to all the Pleasures, which was commissioned by the London Musical Society for St Cecilia’s name day in 1683.

Purcell & Britten: Three Odes for St. Cecilia

Our modern ears are so used to the rich sound of a Baroque orchestra that we can scarcely imagine what an impression Purcell’s Hail, bright Cecilia must have made: probably for the first time in English music all the orchestra parts were obbligato. It is a festive and extrovert ode to Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Benjamin Britten, possibly England’s best-loved composer af74

tue 1 sep / 22.30 oct 2015 – may 2016

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

www.oudemuziek.nl

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Early Music Season

Ensemble Masques Consorts: John Jenkins

Is ten days of Festival not enough, and do you crave more early music? Then you can attend the concerts in our Early Music season. From October to May we will be presenting 101 concerts at 42 different venues spread over The Netherlands and Belgium. The programming includes the Huelgas Ensemble, La Divina Armonia, Ensemble Correspondances, Ordo Virtutum and the Bach Day. A complete list of the Season’s events can be found on our website (www.oudemuziek.nl/seizoen).

Ensemble Masques, in whose ranks we find favourites such as Sophie Gent, Julien Léonard and Olivier Fortin, focuses here on consort music by John Jenkins, a carpenter’s son and virtuoso on the lyra viol. In 1642, under pressure from the Civil War, Jenkins moved from London to the country, where he composed more than seventy suites for domestic use.Masques supplements Jenkins’ elegant music with consorts by Thomas Tomkins and Matthew Locke.

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wednesday 2 september 9.00 Festival Centre

14.00 Children’s treausure hunt

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

9.00 Piccola Accademia

di Montisi

14.00 Fringe

various locations

Paushuize

15.00 Dansvoorstelling 9.30 Semiotics course

Theater Kikker

UCK

15.30 Fringe 9.30 Summer school:

Julia Muller-van Santen

TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Rien Donkersloot

various locations

Dom Tower

10.00 Workshop barokdans UCK

17.00 Vox Luminis Pieterskerk

11.00 Fantasticus

Lutherse Kerk

11.00 Fringe

17.00 Collegium Musicum

Den Haag Geertekerk

various locations

18.30 Eventalk 12.30 Fabulous Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

20.00 Dunedin Consort 13.00 Richard Egarr

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Spes Nostra 13.00 A Guide to Early Music

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

wed 2 sep / 9.30

wed 2 sep / 9.00-12.00

TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine

Paushuize

€ 5 € 12

order number 49

order number 48

Summer school: Julia Muller-van Santen

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

Netherlands v. England

Harpsichord Masterclass with Skip Sempé

Julia Muller, musicologist and woman of letters, discusses various aspects of the relationship between England and the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The Protestant religion was willing to reconcile, but trade interests led time and again to war.

At the same time full-scale cultural cross-pollination occurred. In the 17th century there were no fewer than three English or half-English courts in The Hague where Dutch and English musicians and actors performed. And in the 18th century Willem de Fesch and Pieter Hellendael left for England.

The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht.

A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen

Language: Dutch.

With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.

Held in English.

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wed 2 sep / 11.00 Lutherse Kerk

wed 2 sep / 10.00-12.00 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten € 25

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

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Fantasticus

Rachel Farr

John Jenkins: The excellence of hand

Workshop Baroque dance: Menuet & Jig

The art of dividing up: the term ‘division’ refers literally to the practice of dividing notes up into virtuoso ornaments. In England this practice was especially popular, particularly for the viola da gamba and the lyra viol. Few composers were so at home in this repertoire as John Jenkins, who in terms of virtuosity makes things hot for his performers. Ensemble Fantasticus is the chamber music ensemble of the young violinist Rie Kimura, harpsichordist Guillermo Brachetta and the gambist Robert Smith, who all graduated in Amsterdam.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the operas of Purcell such as Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen proved an important source of popular dances.

Choreographies based on his music were published in 1711 in a well-known collection of dance master Edmund Pemberton’s. In this workshop you will learn from Baroque dance specialist Rachel Farr to dance Mr. Holt’s Menuet & Jig. mon 31 aug: Pavane, Galliard & Volta tues 1 sep: Contredanse & Hornpipe wed 2 sep: Menuet & Jig

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wed 2 sep / 13.00 various locations € 105 / € 90

order number 53

A Guide to Early Music with Saskia Coolen

Extended due to overwhelming success: the Guide to Early Music. With specialist Saskia Coolen you will embark on an exploration of performance practice in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Coolen will outline for you the musical characteristics of each style era, and during the concerts that follow you can immediately apply the knowledge you have acquired. While walking to the concert locations and during dinner there will be time to discuss your experiences with others.

wed 2 sep / 13.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 18 / € 16 / € 10

order number 52

Richard Egarr Purcell and Blow on harpsichord

Henry Purcell was both preceded and succeeded as organist of Westminster Abbey by his musical idol John Blow.

The keyboard music of both these great figures is strangely enough scarcely known.

Richard Egarr is rectifying this with a recital of the characteristic music of Blow and Purcell, full of splendid eccentricities in both melody and harmony.

13.00 Introduction – UCK 15.00 dance production – Theater Kikker 17.00 Collegium Musicum – Geertekerk 18.00 dinner – Restaurant Naast de Markt 20.00 Dunedin Consort – TivoliVredenburg Maximum of 40 participants.

Includes voucher for free programme book (value € 10.)

The Guide will be repeated on 31 aug and 4 sep.

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wed 2 sep / 15.00 Theater Kikker

wed 2 sep / 14.00-15.30 € 22 / € 19 / € 10

TivoliVredenburg € 5

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Children’s treausure hunt

order number 55

Les Corps Éloquents / Hubert Hazebroucq Dance production: Dance and the Dukes

For children between 5 and 10 years old

of Montagu

Do you want to know what it looks like behind the scenes in TivoliVredenburg?

Or have you always wanted to stand on the stage in the Large Hall? Take part in this musical treasure hunt! Our guide will lead you on an exciting journey to see all sorts of hidden nooks and crannies and musical treasures. As a musical explorer you will get to know TivoliVredenburg inside and out.

The library of Boughton House contains not only editions of music of Purcell and others, but also choreographies of Baroque dances. Les Corps Éloquents present dances by the Parisian choreographer Anthony L’Abbé, who performed for the English king in London in 1698, to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully. L’Abbé was also dance teacher to the granddaughters of the 1st Duke of Buccleuch.

NB: no parents allowed!

For the parents: Report to the information counter in the Festival Centre.

The treasure hunt lasts c. 75 minutes.

In collaboration with The Utrecht Festival Dance Band.

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wed 2 sep / 17.00 Pieterskerk

wed 2 sep / 16.00 Dom Tower

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

order number 57

free

Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier

Rien Donkersloot Byrd, Purcell en Sweelinck on carillon

Light and shadow: anthems van Tallis, White, Sheppard

Rien Donkersloot studied carillon with Roy Kroezen and Frans Haagen, and rounded off his training with distinction in 2011. He has won first prize at several carillon competitions. Donkersloot is city carillonneur in Haarlem and Goes, and chief organist of the St.Joriskerk in Amersfoort. On the Hemony carillon in the Dom Tower he will play works by Byrd, Purcell and Sweelinck.

The establishment of the Anglican church by Henry VIII rendered in one fell swoop an entire repertoire of Latin motets and masses virtually unusable. The demand for new music brought about an explosion of creativity. Thomas Tallis preferred to stay loyal to the Roman Catholic church, but was so well-liked that with some degree of pragmatism he was able to keep working. Artist in residence Vox Luminis will sing Latin and English motets and anthems by Tallis and by his Anglican colleagues White, Sheppard and Weelkes.

+ Children’s guided tour ‘Playing Clocks’ 5+ Children must be accompanied by an adult.

In collaboration with Toerisme Utrecht.

Start: 15.45, duration: 90 minutes.

Assemble at VVV, Domplein 9. € 5 pp

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wed 2 sep / 17.00 wed 2 sep / 18.30

Geertekerk

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 58

free

Collegium Musicum Den Haag / Claudio Ribeiro

Eventalk

De Fesch & Hellendael

During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk . Prof.

Keimpe Algra, dean of the Faculty of Humanities, will give you food for thought by means of a brief discourse – like an intellectual haiku. Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical intervention.

The Dutch composers and violin virtuosi Willem de Fesch en Pieter Hellendaal both sought their fortune in London, and prospered with their music with an Italian slant. Collegium Musicum Den Haag presents an exciting programme of concerti grossi by De Fesch and Hellendaal, supplemented by a suite from Handel’s Water Music. Soloist Hiro Kurosaki will provide the fireworks!

With Hiro Kurosaki, violin.

In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen and Centre for the Humanities and Cultural Sundays. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

In collaboration with Hiro Kurosaki, viool

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wed 2 sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

order number 59

Dunedin Consort / John Butt

doomed love is charming, funny and poignant. Blow wrote this masque for the enjoyment of King Charles II. The piece, which premiered in 1683, became the model for Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Before the interval the Scots will treat us to music by Lawes, Gibbons and contemporaries.

John Blow: Venus and Adonis

The Dunedin Consort (from Din Eidyn, Edinburgh Castle) is Scotland’s pride and joy when it comes to Baroque music. John Blow’s Venus and Adonis is his only work for music theatre. And that is actually a shame, since his often highly chromatic music for this tale of

Soloists: Mhairi Lawson, soprano (Venus) Matthew Brook, bass (Adonis) Clare Wilkinson, mezzo soprano (Cupid)

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wed 2 sep / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

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order number 60

Spes Nostra / Jerôme Hantaï

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Consorts: Tears of the muses

The gamba consort Spes Nostra of Jerome Hantai has chosen for this programme works from ‘A booke of In nomines & other solfainge songes’ (1570), which is preserved in the British Library and which is the only known source for a number of works. The book contains arrangements of originally vocal music, including several In nomines. An intimate concert of music by Parsley, Preston, Parsons, Holborne and Dowland.

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thursday 3 september 9.00 Festival Centre

15.00 La Capilla

TivoliVredenburg

St.-Willibrordkerk

9.00 Piccola Accademia

di Montisi

15.30 Fringe

various locations

Paushuize

16.00 Frank Deleu 9.30 Summer school:

Jed Wentz

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Tallis Scholars

Dom Tower

Jacobikerk

11.00 Ci i & Gratton TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Temming & Mields Geertekerk

11.00 Fringe

various locations

18.30 Eventalk TivoliVredenburg

12.30 Fabulous Fringe TivoliVredenburg

20.00 La Risonanza TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Catalina Vicens

Lutherse Kerk

22.30 Mezzaluna TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Fringe

various locations

thu 3 sep / 9.00-12.00 Paushuize € 12

order number 61

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

thu 3 sep / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine

Masterclass klavecimbel met Bob van € 5

Asperen

order number 62

Summer school: Jed Wentz

The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht. A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

Arnold Dolmetsch, William Morris and authenticity

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen

Early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch and Arts and Crafts designer William Morris worked in very different disciplines, but they shared the same ideals and influenced each other. Traverso player and researcher Jed Wentz explores the underlying aesthetic aims that in the late 19th century linked early music and the visual arts.

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.

Held in English.

Language: English With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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thu 3 sep / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

thu 3 sep / 11.00

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TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

Catalina Vicens

order number 63

Virginalists: Giles Farnaby

Bojan Ci i & Maude Gratton

Farnaby, an almost exact contemporary of Shakespeare, did not work at court, and, unlike Byrd, Bull and Gibbons, his music was not published in chic editions. Understandable, since Farnaby was… a carpenter. But then what is the explanation for the fact that one sixth of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is made up of music by Farnaby? A hypothesis: the manuscript was compiled by Francis Tregian, who languished in prison for years because he was a Roman Catholic. Farnaby called on him in order to provide maintenance for his harpsichord, and in the process gave Tregian his poetic music as a present. .

Out of Handel’s Shadow: sonatas by Handel and contemporaries

The music library of Boughton House contains numerous treasures, including chamber music by Handel. Just as with his operas, his great strength here lies in melody. Violinist Bojan Ci i and harpsichordist Maude Gratton will play Handel’s too seldom performed violin sonatas and a sonata from Corelli’s opus V, as immortalized in the portrait of John, Marquis of Monthermer, in Boughton House.

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thu 3 sep / 15.00 St.-Willibrordkerk

thu 3 sep / 16.00 € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 65

Dom Tower, Flora’s Hof free

La Capilla Dunstaple and contemporaries

Frank Deleu Dowland, Purcell, Robinson en Travers

Singers from the former Capilla Flamenca have united to form La Capilla, and the quality of their musicmaking is just as high as it was. They will today, with lute accompaniment, investigate the world of John Dunstaple, the most famous English composer of the 15th century. His life is a mystery, but he probably spent a considerable time on the Continent, where interactions occurred with, among others, Dufay.

on carillon

Frank Deleu studied art history and archaeology in Ghent, and later carillon in Mechelen. He is city carillonneur in Bruges and Damme and gives concerts at home and abroad. Today he plays works including arrangements of lute music by van John Dowland and music from The Fairy Queen by Purcell.

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thu 3 sep / 17.00

thu 3 sep / 17.00

Jacobikerk

Geertekerk

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

A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 order number 66

B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 67

The Tallis Scholars / Peter Philips

Dorothee Mields & Stephan Temmingh c.s.

The Tudor period: Taverner and Byrd

Out of Handel’s Shadow: Orpheus Brittanicus

The Tudor period, between 1485 and 1603, was one of the most turbulent ever in England. Under Henry VIII, Mary I and Elizabeth I the political and religious climate was constantly changing, but culture flourished as never before.

John Taverner worked for Henry VIII, the founder of the Anglican church; William Byrd for Elizabeth I. The Tallis Scholars, after their fantastic concert last year, are once again Utrecht’s guests, this time with Taverner’s Western Wynde Mass en Byrds Tribue Domine.

The South African star recorder player Stephan Temmingh is sometimes called the new Frans Brüggen. Together with the German soprano Dorothee Mields he is presenting songs by Purcell and other works from the Boughton House collection. In Boughton can be found a well-thumbed copy of Purcell´s posthumous anthology Orpheus Britannicus in which during the 18th century favourite songs had been marked with strips of paper.

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thu 3 sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

order number 68

La Risonanza / Fabio Bonnizoni

operas which were rapidly taking over the London stage. But that’s not what happened: Semele was not rediscovered until the 20th century. So it’s high time for a closer acquaintance, provided by La Risonanza, under the direction of Fabio Bonnizoni, internationally acclaimed for their Handel recordings, plus a cast of top soloists.

Eccles’ Semele

How would history have looked if the opera Semele, with libretto by William Congreve and music by John Eccles, had actually been given its premiere in 1707? This English opera is the worthy successor to Purcell’s music theatre. It would have provided formidable competition for the new-fashioned Italian

Soloists: Stefanie True, soprano (Semele) Fulvio Bettini, baritone (Jupiter) Marina De Liso, mezzo soprano (Juno) Jean Francois Lombard, tenor (Athamas)

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thu 3 sep / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz free

thu 3 sep / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Eventalk

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music. During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk. Prof. Wiljan van den Akker (UU) will speak about Poetry, Flamenco, Improvisation, Creativity.

Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical intervention.

order number 69

Mezzaluna / Peter van Heyghen & Paul O’Dette Chamber music for the Tudors

The six recorder players of Mezzaluna and star lutenist Paul O’Dette reconstruct a concert evening such as the Tudor monarchs Henry VIII, Edward VI or Elizabeth I might have experienced.

In their private apartments they could hear consort and lute music by court composers such as Philip Van Wilder, both Ferraboscos, Daniel Bacheler and Augustine Bassano. To these Mezzaluna adds works from the Fitzwilliam Wind Manuscript.

Language: English.

In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen and Centre for the Humanities and Cultural Sundays. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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friday 4 september 9.00

Festival Centre

14.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

9.00 Piccola Accademia

di Montisi

15.00 Azéma & Kammen

various locations

St.-Willibrordkerk

Paushuize 9.30 Summer school:

15.00 The Laboratory

UCK

Peter Holman

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe

various locations

11.00 Les Basses Réunies TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig

Dom Tower

11.00 Fringe

various locations

17.00 Doulce Mémoire Pieterskerk

12.00 Early Music Market TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Vox Luminis Geertekerk

12.30 Fabulous Fringe TivoliVredenburg

18.30 Eventalk TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Carole Cerasi

Lutherse Kerk

20.00 Capriccio Stravagante TivoliVredenburg

13.00 A Guide to Early Music

various locations

22.30 Barokksolistene TivoliVredenburg

vr 4 sep / 9.00-12.00 Paushuize € 12

order number 70

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

vr 4 sep / 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine

Harpsichord Masterclass with Bob van Asperen

€ 5

The harpsichord summer course held in Montisi in Tuscany has in a few short years grown to become the world’s most important extracurricular harpsichord school. For the first time this Piccola Accademia is coming to Utrecht. A top international selection of young keyboard players will during nine days in Utrecht recieve lessons from three harpsichordists who do not teach at any conservatory. And you can sit in on it.

order number 71

Summer school: Peter Holman From Parsons to Purcell: English Consorts

28-30 aug: Pierre Hantaï 31 aug-2 sep: Skip Sempé 3-5 sep: Bob van Asperen

Peter Holman is the leading authority on the music of the British Isles. He has published works on Purcell and the viola da gamba, and is currently working on a history of conducting techniques.

During this final fetival weekend Peter Holman is our ‘scholar in residence’ and will deliver three summer school lectures. Today: English consorts.

In collaboration with Piccola Accademia di Montisi.

Held in English.

Language: English.

With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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vr 4 sep / 11.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 72

Les Basses Réunies / Bruno Cocset vr 4 sep / 12.00-18.00

Hume’s love of the lyra viol

TivoliVredenburg

The lyra viol, the cousin of the bass viol, was in the 17th century the favourite instrument of many English people, and above all of army officer and composer Tobias Hume. He found the lyra superior to the lute, which earned him a reprimand from Dowland. But with the lyra’s wealth of colours, strings that could be played simultaneously and a whole variety of tuning options, Hume wrote expressive and ‘humorfull’ music. (His best-known anthology was sub-titled Musicall Humors.) Guido Balestracci and Bruno Cocset play lyra viol and viol, with Richard Myron on bass and Bertrand Cuiller at the harpsichord.

free

Early Music Market During the Early Music Market fifty instrument builders, music shops and booksellers will occupy the Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg. The opportunity for professionals and amateurs to examine historical instruments personally, and of course to try them out. A complete list of the stallholders can be found on our website from 1 July (www.oudemuziek.nl/markt), and in the festival book.

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fri 4 sep / 13.00 various locations € 105 / € 90

order number 74

A Guide to Early Music with Saskia Coolen

fri 4 sep / 13.00 Extended due to overwhelming success: the Guide to Early Music. With specialist Saskia Coolen you will embark on an exploration of performance practice in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Coolen will outline for you the musical characteristics of each style era, and during the concerts that follow you can immediately apply the knowledge you have acquired. While walking to the concert locations and during dinner there will be time to discuss your experiences with others.

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

order number 73

Carole Cerasi Virginalists: Thomas Tomkins

Thomas Tomkins wrote most of his keyboard works late in life – and he reached the grand old age of 84.

The outbreak of the Civil War in 1642 put paid to his being choirmaster of Worcester Cathedral. Writing pavanes, grounds and fancies, purely for his own pleasure, was all that was left him in his last years. Carole Cerasi, former student of Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt, is the ideal performer for this intimate repertoire.

13.00 introduction – UCK 15.00 concert Azéma & Kammen – St.-Willibrord 17.00 concert Doulce Memoire - Pieterskerk 18.00 dinner – Restaurant Naast de Markt 20.00 concert Capriccio Stravagante –TivoliVredenburg Maximum of 40 participants.

Includes voucher for free programme book (value € 10.)

The Guide will be repeated on 31 aug and 4 sep.

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fri 4 sep / 15.00 Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten € 16 / € 14 / € 10

fri 4 sep / 15.00 St.-Willibrordkerk € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 76

The Laboratory: the art of choosing

order number 75

With Lidewij van der Voort and Kris Verhelst

Anne Azéma & Shira Kammen

The early music musician has to choose between different kinds of source, and between sometimes controversial or mutually contradictory accounts of how music was performed in the past. In this open rehearsal different interpretative options will be tried out in accordance with the different sources, using music of Corelli as the testing ground. As a listener you will be able to follow how by means of this complicated and inspiring process an ‘authentic’ interpretation is created, which furthermore fits the individual personality of the modern musicians.

Moderator: Jed Wentz.

The Mon in the Mone

With her striking appearance and crystalline voice soprano Anne Azéma evokes the world of Albion, the England of the Middle Ages. Shira Kammen accompanies her on the vielle (fiddle) and harp, in dramatic tales of life and death, and in sensual songs, such as the medieval legend of the man in the moon. Azéma and Kammen are both involved with Boston Camerata, one of the pioneering ensembles of the early music movement in the USA. 99

fri 4 sep / 17.00 Pieterskerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 77

Doulce Mémoire / Denis Raisin Dadre

fri 4 sep / 16.00

A mass for peace

Dom Tower, Flora’s Hof free

The election in 1519 of the Spanish king Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor created a mega-empire, which drove France into the arms of the English.

The two kings François I and Henry VIII met each other in 1520 at the ostentatious Field of the Cloth of Gold, where as well as peace talks numerous tournaments were held, with music adding lustre to the occasion. Doulce Mémoire reconstructs a mass with both English and French contributions from Ludford and Sermisy, at that time young talents with whom the kings could show off.

Malgosia Fiebig Tomkins, Gibbons, Clarke on carillon

In this concert Malgosia Fiebig, city carillonneur of Utrecht and Nijmegen, plays works by Thomas Tomkins, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Chilcot and Jeremiah Clarke. Clarke was a pupil of John Blow in the Chapel Royal and is the real composer of the well-known Trumpet Voluntary.

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fri 4 sep / 17.00 Geertekerk

fri 4 sep / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

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

order number 78

free

Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier Mezzaluna / Peter van Heyghen

Eventalk Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music. During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk. Today Prof. Josine Blok (UU) reflects on the question of whether music contributes to good citizenship. Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical intervention.

The Triumphs of Oriana

In 1601, in honour of Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Morley published a collection of madrigals by no fewer than 23 different composers. Each madrigal ends with an ode to Oriana, as Elizabeth was fondly known. Because so many composers contributed to the anthology, including Morley and Tomkins, it provides a fascinating picture of the development of the English madrigal according to Italian models. Artist in residence Vox Luminis is joined by recorder quintet Mezzaluna.

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

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fri 4 sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

order number 79

sparks will fly. Terpsichore is the name of both the Greek muse of dance and the collection of dances which Praetorius published in 1612, with dances from different parts of Europe.

During this colourful evening filled with galliards, pavanes and bransles, played by changing combinations of strings, winds, lutes and percussion, you’ll imagine yourself at the dazzling court of Henry VIII. The formation is that of a ‘king-sized’ consort.

Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra / Skip Sempé King-sized consorts

Just prepare yourself for the fact that during this concert you will find it hard to sit still: when Sempé and company play dances by Anthony Holborne, William Brade and Michael Praetorius, 102

fri 4 sep / 22.30 TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine

za 30 aug / 00.00 uur locatie van het concert

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 80

Barokksolistene / Bjarte Eike Purcell in the pub www.oudemuziek.nl/legaten

Since the Middle Ages the pub has been the second home of the English.

Following the closure of many theatres under religious pressure in the 17th century, these pubs were transformed into genuine ‘Musick Houses’, frequented by composers such as Henry Purcell. The Norwegian Barokksolistene will hold a Baroque jam session with traditional folk music, compositions

by Purcell and colleagues, plus virtuoso musical duels – totally in the atmosphere of the 17th-century pub.

The combination of melancholy and humour, hilarious anecdotes and fantastic musicianship is simply irresistible.

And just keep that beer flowing!

Support Early Music The Early Music Festival and Season are together responsible for providing 250 concerts per year, which are enjoyed by over 80,000 people, including yourself.

Play a role in the future of early music by supporting us with a bequest or donation. If you would like to know more about the options, consult www. oudemuziek.nl/legaten.

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saturday 5 september 9.00 Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg

14.00 Children’s production 3+

Water Music

9.00

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

Theater Kikker

15.00 Dialogos

Paushuize

Pieterskerk

9.30 Summer school:

Peter Holman

15.00 Paul O’Dette TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe 10.00 Workshop Engelse renaissance

St.-Willibrordkerk

16.00 Kindervoorstelling Watermuziek

11.00 Musica ad Rhenum

various locations

Theater Kikker

TivoliVredenburg

17.00 Officium Ensemble 11.00 Arie Abbenes

Pieterskerk

Dom Tower

17.00 Barokksolistene 11.00 Fringe

Geertekerk

various locations

18.30 Eventalk 10.00 Early Music Market

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

20.00 L’Arpeggiata 12.30 Fabulous Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

TivoliVredenburg

22.30 Ricercar Consort 13.00 Ursula Dütschler

TivoliVredenburg

Lutherse Kerk 24.00 Thompson & Zuljan

14.00 Fringe

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

sat 5 sep / 9.3 0 TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine € 5

sat 5 sep / 10.00-18.00

order number 82

TivoliVredenburg free

Summer school: Peter Holman

Early Music Market

Gentlemen & Players

The absence of an organized structure for professional musicians in 18th-century England rendered the participation of amateurs in orchestras essential. In terms of quality they were not inferior to their professional colleagues. ‘Scholar in residence’ Peter Holman dicusses the rise of the amateur orchestra.

During the Early Music Market fifty instrument builders, music shops and booksellers will occupy the Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg. The opportunity for professionals and amateurs to examine historical instruments personally, and of course to try them out. A complete list of the stallholders can be found on our website from 1 July (www.oudemuziek.nl/markt), and in the festival book.

Language: English.

With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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sat 5 sep / 10.00-14.30 St.-Willibrordkerk

sat 5 sep / 11.00

€ 25 incl. Lunch

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

Workshop English Renaissance

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 83

Musica ad Rhenum / Jed Wentz

Led by Tore Denys

Out of Handel’s Shadow: Geminiani,

William Byrd composed his choral work Quomodo Cantabimus in reponse to his friend De Monte’s Super Flumina Babylonis. In this workshop led by Renaissance specialist Tore Denys (Cinquecento, La Capilla) you will, just by singing them, discover the essence of these motets. During a demanding morning rehearsal you will prepare these pieces, after which you will present the result in our fringe.Singing CV obligatory.

Roman en Handel

Ebullient London attracted many foreign composers. Among them were the German George Frideric Handel, the ‘Swedish Handel’, Johan Helmich Roman, and the Italian Francesco Geminiani. Musica ad Rhenum will play music by these expats, from the Boughton House collection, including pieces from a newly discovered manuscript. Virtuoso arrangements of Handel arias will be heard for the first time since the 18th century, and perhaps also an unknown prelude by the master himself.

Apply via www.oudemuziek.nl 10.00-13.30 rehearsal 13.30-14.00 lunch 14.00-14.30 presentation in fringe 14.00-14.30 presentatie in fringe 107

sat 5 sep / 13.00 Lutherse Kerk A € 18 / € 16 / € 10 B € 16 / € 14 / € 10

order number 85

sat 5 sep / 11.00 Dom Tower, Flora’s Hof

Ursula Dütschler Virginalists: William Byrd (I)

free

Arie Abbenes

The most significant revolution for which William Byrd is responsible perhaps concerns his keyboard music. Before Byrd it was mainly simple dances and arrangements of vocal music that were played on the harpsichord, but the ‘father of Musicke’ emancipated the instrument. The revolution does not lie so much in Byrd’s strong counterpoint, unexpected harmonic twists and turns and exciting rhythm, but in the conceptual and idiomatic way of thinking: the content and possibilities of the instrument itself determine the form. The finest examples of this are to be found in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, from which harpsichordist Ursula Dütschler has made a selection.

Purcells Dido on carillon

Arie Abbenes, former city carillonneur of Utrecht, provides a prelude to the evening concert by L’Arpeggiata, with a carillon arrangement of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas and the sonata Didone abbandonata by Giuseppe Tartini. + “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 Dom Tower, Domplein 21. € 10 pp, order number 84

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sat 5 sep / 15.00 Pieterskerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

sat 5 sep / 14.00 & 16.00 Theater Kikker € 10

order number 87

Dialogos / Katarina Livljani

bestelnummers 86 en 89

Swithun of Winchester

Water Music This afternoon you will be swept along by medieval specialist Katarina Livljanic and her ensemble Dialogos as they recount the highly imaginative tale of the medieval cantor Wulfstan. Three very furious furies beleaguer him in frightening dreams, but he is saved by St Swithun. Wulfstan’s virtuoso poem about his experiences is wreathed with the very earliest medieval polyphony from the Winchester Troper (c. 1050).

This manuscript contains several compositions dedicated to St Swithun, who 100 years after his death was venerated as a hero.

Children’s production 3+

The Water Music, one of Handel’s bestknown compositions, was performed in the open air during a royal boat trip on the Thames, on 17 July 1717. In this children’s production two musicians recreate this musical voyage by means of two buckets of water, Wellington boots, an oboe and an accordion. Who wants to come along on a boat trip to England?

Duration: 40 minutes.

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sat 5 sep / 17.00 Pieterskerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

order number 90

sat 5 sep / 15.00

Officium Ensemble / Pedro Teixeira

TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 88

The golden age of the Tudors: Byrd and Tallis

Paul O’Dette Semper Dowland

The vocal ensemble Officium is one of the most prominent groups in Portugal.

Officium illustrates the wealth (both material and cultural) of the Tudor era in the light of the four-part mass of Byrd and motets of Tallis. Both composers were singers of the Chapel Royal.

They remained faithful to the Roman Catholic religion and had somehow to survive in a changeable religious and political climate. In that respect they more than succeeded – Elizabeth I granted them the privilege of having their own music published. Out of gratitude Tallis wrote his Miserere nostri for the 17th anniversary of Elizabeth’s accession.

John Dowland’s music was already in his own day exceptionally popular: his work was published not only in England but throughout Europe.

Dowland’s life, however, was marked by disappointments, hence his motto Semper Dowland semper dolens: always Dowland, always in pain. But although his melancholy music is best-known and loved, there was another side to Dowland. Lute legend Paul O’Dette will therefore play both the famous Lachrimae and some less well-known, cheerful lute pieces such as Mrs. Vaux’s Jigge and A Coye Joye.

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sat 5 sep / 18.30 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz free

sat 5 sep / 17.00 Geertekerk

Eventalk

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

order number 91

Evensong is a strong tradition in English cathedrals: at the end of the afternoon a concise, spoken reflection is wreathed in choral music. During the Early Music Festival we are presenting, in close collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities of the University of Utrecht, a secular vespers, which we have called Eventalk. Today Prof. Wessel Krul (RUG) reflects on early music as a time machine. Artist in residence Vox Luminis will provide a musical intervention.

Barokksolistene / Bjarte Eike The Image of Melancholy

The alliance between melancholy and music is ancient. Since time immemorial we have believed that music has the power to influence our feelings – to temper our sorrow, or indeed to reinforce it. In this very personal concert Bjarte Eike combines the sad consorts of Dowland and Holborne with Norwegian melodies. The result is a chastening, meditative experience.

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

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sat 5 sep / 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 46 / € 38 / € 10

order number 92

L’Arpeggiata & Voces8 / Christina Pluhar

number of female roles. The plot is loosely based on Virgil: the love between Dido and Aeneas comes to a tragic end when a sorceress incites Aeneas to abandon Dido. The lament that Dido sings before she dies is one of the best-loved arias ever written.

Pluhar has reconstructed the prologue by drawing on other works of Purcell.

Purcells Dido and Aeneas

Anyone who missed last year’s concert

by L’Arpeggiata is getting another chance! Whatever repertoire Christina Pluhar tackles, it turns into musical gold, and that will be no different with Purcell’s Dido. Purcell probably wrote his opera for the girls of the Boarding School for Young Gentlewomen in Chelsea, which accounts for the large

Soloists: Mariana Flores (Dido) Céline Scheen (Belinda) Marc Mauillon (Aeneas) This concert will last c. 75 minutes and will have no interval.

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sat 5 sep / 22.30 sat 5 sep / 24.00

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz

TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

order number 93 € 12 / € 10 / € 7

Ricercar Consort & Maria Keohane

order number 94

Jeffrey Thompson & Bor Zuljan

William Byrd: consorts and consort songs

Time stands still: Dowland songs

The charming consort songs by William Byrd might well have been written for the flexible voice of the Swedish soprano Maria Keohane. With a soprano for the ‘dittie’ and a viol consort for the ‘harmonie’, Byrd combines the light style of the popular Italian canzonetta with the more complex polyphony of the French chanson. Keohane can nestle on a bed of viol sound.

Night has fallen, silence descends.

Midnight is an ideal moment for Dowland’s intimate songs. Tenor Jeffrey Thompson, who made a name for himself in a series of productions with William Christie, and lutenist Bor Zuljan wish you goodnight with I saw my lady weepe, Farewell and Come heavy sleepe.

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sunday 6 september 9.00 Festival Centre

14.00 Fringe

TivoliVredenburg

9.30 Summer school:

Peter Holman

15.00 La Morra

various locations

Leeuwenbergh

TivoliVredenburg

15.00 Capella de la Torre 10.00 Early Music Market

Domkerk

TivoliVredenburg

15.30 Fringe 11.00 Charles Daniels c.s.

various locations

TivoliVredenburg

11.00 Opening Uitfeest: Spem

in alium TivoliVredenburg

16.00 Malgosia Fiebig

Dom Tower 17.00 Cantar Lontano

Pieterskerk

11.00 Fringe

various locations

11.00 Opening Uitfeest: Spem

in alium TivoliVredenburg

13.00 Aapo Häkkinen

Lutherse Kerk

17.00 Cappella Amsterdam

Geertekerk 20.00 Gli Angeli Genève

TivoliVredenburg

sun 6 sep, 9.30 TivoliVredenburg, Cloud Nine â‚Ź 5

order number 95

Summer school: Peter Holman

sun 6 sep / 10.00-17.00

Out of Handel’s Shadow

free

TivoliVredenburg

Early Music Market

The stereotypical view is that Handel dominated the English music scene in the 18th century, and that English composers could not compete. Peter Holman, scholar in residence, offers an alternative vision: Handel was certainly not the only important immigrant, and there existed a specifically English idiom which foreign composers were only too keen to make their own.

During the Early Music Market fifty instrument builders, music shops and booksellers will occupy the Festival Centre TivoliVredenburg. The opportunity for professionals and amateurs to examine historical instruments personally, and of course to try them out. A complete list of the stallholders can be found on our website from 1 July (www.oudemuziek.nl/markt), and in the festival book.

Language: English With support from the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

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sun 6 sep / 11.00 TivoliVredenburg, Hertz € 22 / € 19 / € 10

sun 6 sep / 11.00 & 12.30 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

order number 96

free

Charles Daniels c.s.

Opening Uitfeest: Spem in alium

For Several Friends: Lawes, Locke, Lawes and Jenkins

The language of 17th-century English chamber music, so different from the extrovert virtuosity of the 18th-century Italian Baroque, can be spoken only by excellent musicians. In this concert, filled with the poetry and the fire of the 17th century, the line-up consists of three musicians who are totally at home in this music. The English tenor Charles Daniels, violinist Lidewij van der Voort and theorbist Fred Jacobs present a programme of songs by William and Henry Lawes, suites from the anthology For Several Friends by Matthew Locke and instrumental airs by John Jenkins.

The final Eventalk of this festival, on this occasion in the early afternoon, is also the opening of the Cultural Sunday Uitfeest (where cultural institutions present a preview of their coming season). Today a special programme: a mystery guest will be both introduced and bidden farewell with a double performance of the 40-part Spem in alium

by Thomas Tallis, conducted by artist in residence Lionel Meunier.

In collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen and Centre for the Humanities and Cultural Sundays. Part of Residenties in Utrecht.

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sun 6 sep, 13.00 Lutherse Kerk

€ 22 / € 19 / € 10

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

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La Morra / Corina Marti

order number 97

Dunstaple, Bedyngham, Frye, Morton

Aapo Häkkinen According to Martin Le Franc (c. 1440) and Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1477) 15thcentury English music, and above all that of John Dunstaple, exerted a great influence on composers on the Continet. Dunstaple has, since being rediscovered at the start of the 20th century, become the most famous son of medieval England, but La Morra illustrates by means of song, flute, harp, lute and vielle (fiddle) that so much more of what originated on that side of the Channel made an impact in continental Europe.

Virginalists: William Byrd (II)

It is at the keyboard that William Byrd developed a remarkable language of his own. Many of his younger contemporaries imitated his style, but lacked the necessary inventive and intellectual capacity to equal Byrd’s multi-layered rhetoric and virtuosity. The Finnish harpsichordist Aapo Häkkinen has chosen Byrd’s mature fantasias and pavanes from the first decades of the 17th century.

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sun 6 sep, 15.00 Domkerk A € 22 / € 19 / € 10 B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

sun 6 sep, 16.00

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Dom Tower, Flora’s Hof

Charles Daniels & Capella de la Torre / Katharina Bäuml

free

Malgosia Fiebig Dowland, Tallis, Locke and Simpson

Harry our King

on carillon

Tenor Charles Daniels and the wind players of Capella de la Torre bring the court of Henry VIII to life through a kaleidoscope of songs and dances.

Henry VIII was a fervent art-lover who attracted musicians and composers from all over Europe, and the musical king composed his own songs, of which the best-known is Pastyme with good company.

The Early Music Carillon Festival will be rounded off by city carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig, with arrangements of lute works by John Dowland, such as The Frog Galliard and Farewell, and secular songs by Thomas Tallis including O Ye Tender Babes. In addition she will perform music by Matthew Locke and Christopher Simpson.

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sun 6 sep, 17.00

sun 6 sep, 17.00

Pieterskerk

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

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B € 19 / € 16 / € 10

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RossoPorpora Ensemble & Cantar Lontano / Marco Mencoboni

Cappella Amsterdam / Daniel Reuss

Ferrabosco’s madrigals

for the Duke of Marlborough

The Italian Alfonso Ferrabosco Sr. brought the madrigal to England, where in 1562 he entered service with Elizabeth I. His refined and modest madrigal style was perhaps not so extremely expressive as that of Marenzio or Luzzaschi, but maybe that was precisely the reason why he was able to win the hearts of the English. Specially for this occasion the fresh voices of RossoPorpora join forces with Mencoboni’s Cantar Lontano. And whenever Marco Mencoboni undertakes something, you can be sure it will become an adventure.

Music from the Boughton House collection: the marriage in 1705 between John Montagu and Mary Churchill, daughter of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, joined two wealthy and powerful English families. In 1722 Bononcini, Handel’s rival in London, wrote When Saul was Kind as funeral music for Marlborough, and a copy of the score, annotated ‘Ex Dono Sigr Bononcini’, is preserved in Boughton. Cappella Amsterdam will supplement this splendid anthem with Lord, let me know mine end

by Maurice Greene and As pants the hart by Handel.

Out of Handel’s Shadow: Funeral music

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sun 6 sep, 20.00 TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal € 36 / € 32 / € 10

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Gli Angeli Genève / Stephan MacLeod

different tongues’) is almost symbolic for the various monarchs’ altering religious persuasions which required Tallis to adapt his music. Stephan MacLeod is guaranteed to give you goose pimples with Tallis’ most beautiful motets, including the Lamentations and the Miserere. The timbre will be enriched

by Renaissance recorders – a practice that dates back to the 16th century. It is with pride that we announce that Gli Angeli Genève will be artist in residence of the Utrecht Early Music Festival – La Serenissima – In 2016.

Final concert: Thomas Tallis

Every single concert given by bass Stephan MacLeod’s vocal ensemble Gli Angeli Genève is a sensation. They conclude the Early Music Festival 2015 with a programme built around Thomas Tallis, who worked at the Chapel Royal for 40 years. The motet Loquebantur variis linguis (‘they spoke in 121

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, you can only get tickets from the locations themselves.

Order online Tickets can be bought online through the concert calendar. 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 â‚Ź 1,50, with a maximum of â‚Ź 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 Extra, Vrienden VIP and our Gildeleden can order tickets from 15 May. Vrienden can order from 22 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, starting from Friday 28 August.

To reserve by phone, please call +31 (0)30 2329010 (from Friday 24 August from 10.00 to 18.00) 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 concert will last for one hour, without an interval. Concerts starting at 20.00 will usually end before 22.00. We have mentioned different ending times in the brochure.

Sold out concerts We will mention sold out concert 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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Each year, 75,000 music lovers attend over 250 concerts that we present during the Early Music Festival and the Early Music Season. However, we cannot do this work without your financial support. For this reason, we ask you to contribute to the preservation of early music culture in the Netherlands.

Of course your donation is meant to support the Organisatie Oude Muziek, but it also affords you a number of privileges. You receive the Early Music Magazine four times per year (in Dutch), are welcome to attend our yearly Friends’ Concert, and receive a discount on all admission prices and CDs. In addition, you can order advance tickets for the Festival, thus providing an opportunity to get the best seats. As a Friend, you make a contribution towards keeping Early Music alive for yourself and for coming generations.

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• reduced rates for all concerts during the Early Music Festival and Season (for 2 persons) • discount on cd’s • four issues of the Tijdschrift Oude Muziek each year • you can order Festival-tickets one week ahead of non-Friends • € 10 discount for the Vriendenconcert during the festival (Accademia Bizantina, sun 30 Aug 2015), • an invitation to come to our Vriendenavond/Evening for Friends, where the Festival programme will be presented

• all of the advantages mentioned above • two weeks ordering ahead • two tickets for the price of one for one Early Music Season concert Advantages of being a Friend VIP for € 160 per year: • all of the advantages mentioned above • free admission to the Vriendenconcert for 2 persons

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Colofon Brochure Utrecht Early Music Festival 2015 © 2015 Utrecht editors: Susanne Vermeulen (eindredactie), Xavier Vandamme, Jed Wentz, Juliëtte Dufornee, Nicolien van der Veer concept design: Kea Dunant lay-out: Esther de Bruijn print: BCM image cover: Rick Harrison photography inside: Boughton House, Remke Spijkers, Foppe Schut, Anna van Kooij, Marieke Wijntjes, Jed Wentz, Susanne Vermeulen, Vox Luminis, Ross den Otter, Victor van Werkhooven, Molina Visuals, Philippe Matsas, Michal Adamo, Bert Knot, DR, Hillary Scott, Wierd Mansink, Eric Richmond, Oliver Oppitz, Lawrence Op, Ad Meskens, Marco Borggreve, Piccola Accademia di Montisi, Mary Ann Daly, Tim Heirman, Huelgas Ensemble, Zoetnet, Jindrich Trcka, Nathaniel Baruch, Re-Zensor, Gianluca Liverani, Oscar Vazquez, Florent Lagasse, Ben Wright, Stuart Fyffe-Collins, La Fenice, Miel Peters, Taco Witte, Senne van der Ven, Daniel Ryan, Juri Hiensch, Wratislava Cantans, David Samyn, Rudi Wells, WM, Joost van Brug, David Sim, Tim Regan, Cameron Leask, Tim Mintiens, Kathleen Michiels, EVS, Harald Hoffmann, Laura Crippa, Rogdel, Les Basses Reunis, Simone Poltronieri, Wouter Jansen, Rudolphe Marics, Dickelbers, Knut Utler, Wout Nooitgedagt, Maarten Danial, Jay Achterberg, Cynthia Johnston, Dialogos, Jennifer Girard, Barokksolistene, Kyoshi Masamune, Hanya Chlala, Ville Paul Paasimaa, Susanna Drescher, Thorsten Eichhorst, Bram Tackenberg, Lorenzo Franzi, Annelies van der Vegt, Helene Tobler, Eduardo Hernández Pérez, Enrico Bellei, Edouard Bressy, Tobias Haynes, Diliff, Ola Renska, Sarah Wijzenbeek, Alberto Molina, Joerg Lansberg, Bert Kaufmann, Ipe van der Deen.

Publication date: 15 May 2015 (may be subject to change) The 34th 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, K.F. Heinfonds, Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Institut français, Carel Nengerman Fonds, Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, Koninklijke Nederlandse Ambassade van Wetenschappen, Mr August Fentener van Vlissingenfonds, De Oude Franz Jansen.

In coproductie met: TivoliVredenburg, Boughton House, AVROTROS, Radio 4, Piccola Accademia di Montisi, MAfestival, Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek, Stichting Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk, Concertzender, Universiteit Utrecht, Centre for the Humanities, RTV Utrecht, Culturele Zondagen, Residenties in Utrecht, Utrechtse Klokkenspel Vereniging en Utrechts Klokkenluiders Gilde.

Met dank aan: de hertog van Buccleuch en Queensberry, Paul Boucher, Ward Rennen & Jacques Reijniers, Bruce Kennedy, AnnaRiikka Santapukki, Frans Vreeke, Margriet van Kraats, Peter Tra, Guy van Hulst, Jorunn Labordus, Sanne van Zijst, brava, Maaike Oudshoorn, Marianne Koenders, team TivoliVredenburg, Toerisme Utrecht, Rosi Braidotti, Goda Klumbyte, Lidy Ettema, René van der Giessen, Marjan Koenekoop, Quinten Peelen, Henk Heuvelmans, Tomas Bisschop, Skip Sempé, Keimpe Algra, the Knights who say Ni, fam. Brouwer, fam. Hoek, Hans Kuperus, Malgosia Fiebig, Henk Klop klavecimbels & orgels, Jan Kalsbeek klavecimbels, Paul Hesseling, Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten, Jeroen Heijungs, Nander Cirkel, Karien Kooiman, Jochem van der Heide, Kingsmen, Barbara Titus, Martine Visser, Siebe Henstra, Tineke Steenbrink, Menno van Delft, beheerders, kosters en medewerkers van de genoemde instellingen en van de festivallocaties, en alle festivalvrijwilligers.

Media partners Festival: AVROTROS / Radio 4, Trouw

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Board Stichting Vrienden Oude Muziek voorzitter: Dick Hoek penningmeester: Jan van der Tol RA lid: Hans Tromp

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Tudor polyphony

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Out of Handel’s Shadow

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Eventalk

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Piccola Accademia di Montisi

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Summer school

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Carillon festival

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