An emotional time portal. That’s how you could call this performance where eight a cappella voices create an unearthly experience, where the mysterious, multilayered medieval world that tickles the imagination is brought to life.

For the first time at the Christopher Festival – the famous Huelgas Ensemble, led by the legendary Paul Van Nevel. For more than five decades, this collective has been forming our understanding of what early music should sound like – through his careful study of sources he reconstructs sounds and then conveys them to us with amazing precision and mastery.

Multi-award winners giving concerts at prestgious halls all over, from the Lincoln Center to Royal Albert Hall, the Huelgas Ensemble will be trying out the acoustics at our very own St Catherine’s Church. The programme audiences will be able to hear was inspired by The Dream of Poliphilo – one of the most enigmatic and aesthetically richest Renaissance texts. Each work in this programme is akin to a work of art, recreated to utmost precision yet performed with passion.

According to Van Nevel, St Catherine’s Church is an ideal space for this kind of music. Not only for its acoustics and architecture, but also for its sense of total time transportation. Come to this concert-dream and feel it for yourself!

Programme:

Anonymous, Firenze 1563
Alma che scarca

Anonymous, Cyprus ca. 1380
Je sui trestout damour raimpli

Max Reger (1873–1916)
Es waren zwei Königskinder

Nicolas Craen (ca.1470–1507)
Ave Maria

Jacobus Gallus (1550 - 1591)
Mirabile Mysterium
Planxit David

Pierre Sandrin (ca. 1490–nà 1561)
Puisque vivre en servitude

Willem Ceuleers (*1962)
Io non so ben

Cipriano de Rore (1515–1565)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Donec gratus eram tibi

Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553–1599)/Francesco Petrarca
Solo e pensoso

Anonymous, Avignon (?) ca. 1390
Dardant desir / Se fus d’amer / Nigra est set formosa

Max Reger (1873–1916)/Matthias Claudius
Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit

Philippus de Monte (1521–1603)
Fui preso fui ferito

Ludwig Senfl (ca. 1490–1543)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Mollis inertia

An emotional time portal. That’s how you could call this performance where eight a cappella voices create an unearthly experience, where the mysterious, multilayered medieval world that tickles the imagination is brought to life.

For the first time at the Christopher Festival – the famous Huelgas Ensemble, led by the legendary Paul Van Nevel. For more than five decades, this collective has been forming our understanding of what early music should sound like – through his careful study of sources he reconstructs sounds and then conveys them to us with amazing precision and mastery.

Multi-award winners giving concerts at prestgious halls all over, from the Lincoln Center to Royal Albert Hall, the Huelgas Ensemble will be trying out the acoustics at our very own St Catherine’s Church. The programme audiences will be able to hear was inspired by The Dream of Poliphilo – one of the most enigmatic and aesthetically richest Renaissance texts. Each work in this programme is akin to a work of art, recreated to utmost precision yet performed with passion.

According to Van Nevel, St Catherine’s Church is an ideal space for this kind of music. Not only for its acoustics and architecture, but also for its sense of total time transportation. Come to this concert-dream and feel it for yourself!

Programme:

Anonymous, Firenze 1563
Alma che scarca

Anonymous, Cyprus ca. 1380
Je sui trestout damour raimpli

Max Reger (1873–1916)
Es waren zwei Königskinder

Nicolas Craen (ca.1470–1507)
Ave Maria

Jacobus Gallus (1550 - 1591)
Mirabile Mysterium
Planxit David

Pierre Sandrin (ca. 1490–nà 1561)
Puisque vivre en servitude

Willem Ceuleers (*1962)
Io non so ben

Cipriano de Rore (1515–1565)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Donec gratus eram tibi

Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553–1599)/Francesco Petrarca
Solo e pensoso

Anonymous, Avignon (?) ca. 1390
Dardant desir / Se fus d’amer / Nigra est set formosa

Max Reger (1873–1916)/Matthias Claudius
Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit

Philippus de Monte (1521–1603)
Fui preso fui ferito

Ludwig Senfl (ca. 1490–1543)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Mollis inertia

An emotional time portal. That’s how you could call this performance where eight a cappella voices create an unearthly experience, where the mysterious, multilayered medieval world that tickles the imagination is brought to life.

For the first time at the Christopher Festival – the famous Huelgas Ensemble, led by the legendary Paul Van Nevel. For more than five decades, this collective has been forming our understanding of what early music should sound like – through his careful study of sources he reconstructs sounds and then conveys them to us with amazing precision and mastery.

Multi-award winners giving concerts at prestgious halls all over, from the Lincoln Center to Royal Albert Hall, the Huelgas Ensemble will be trying out the acoustics at our very own St Catherine’s Church. The programme audiences will be able to hear was inspired by The Dream of Poliphilo – one of the most enigmatic and aesthetically richest Renaissance texts. Each work in this programme is akin to a work of art, recreated to utmost precision yet performed with passion.

According to Van Nevel, St Catherine’s Church is an ideal space for this kind of music. Not only for its acoustics and architecture, but also for its sense of total time transportation. Come to this concert-dream and feel it for yourself!

Programme:

Anonymous, Firenze 1563
Alma che scarca

Anonymous, Cyprus ca. 1380
Je sui trestout damour raimpli

Max Reger (1873–1916)
Es waren zwei Königskinder

Nicolas Craen (ca.1470–1507)
Ave Maria

Jacobus Gallus (1550 - 1591)
Mirabile Mysterium
Planxit David

Pierre Sandrin (ca. 1490–nà 1561)
Puisque vivre en servitude

Willem Ceuleers (*1962)
Io non so ben

Cipriano de Rore (1515–1565)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Donec gratus eram tibi

Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553–1599)/Francesco Petrarca
Solo e pensoso

Anonymous, Avignon (?) ca. 1390
Dardant desir / Se fus d’amer / Nigra est set formosa

Max Reger (1873–1916)/Matthias Claudius
Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit

Philippus de Monte (1521–1603)
Fui preso fui ferito

Ludwig Senfl (ca. 1490–1543)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Mollis inertia

An emotional time portal. That’s how you could call this performance where eight a cappella voices create an unearthly experience, where the mysterious, multilayered medieval world that tickles the imagination is brought to life.

For the first time at the Christopher Festival – the famous Huelgas Ensemble, led by the legendary Paul Van Nevel. For more than five decades, this collective has been forming our understanding of what early music should sound like – through his careful study of sources he reconstructs sounds and then conveys them to us with amazing precision and mastery.

Multi-award winners giving concerts at prestgious halls all over, from the Lincoln Center to Royal Albert Hall, the Huelgas Ensemble will be trying out the acoustics at our very own St Catherine’s Church. The programme audiences will be able to hear was inspired by The Dream of Poliphilo – one of the most enigmatic and aesthetically richest Renaissance texts. Each work in this programme is akin to a work of art, recreated to utmost precision yet performed with passion.

According to Van Nevel, St Catherine’s Church is an ideal space for this kind of music. Not only for its acoustics and architecture, but also for its sense of total time transportation. Come to this concert-dream and feel it for yourself!

Programme:

Anonymous, Firenze 1563
Alma che scarca

Anonymous, Cyprus ca. 1380
Je sui trestout damour raimpli

Max Reger (1873–1916)
Es waren zwei Königskinder

Nicolas Craen (ca.1470–1507)
Ave Maria

Jacobus Gallus (1550 - 1591)
Mirabile Mysterium
Planxit David

Pierre Sandrin (ca. 1490–nà 1561)
Puisque vivre en servitude

Willem Ceuleers (*1962)
Io non so ben

Cipriano de Rore (1515–1565)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Donec gratus eram tibi

Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553–1599)/Francesco Petrarca
Solo e pensoso

Anonymous, Avignon (?) ca. 1390
Dardant desir / Se fus d’amer / Nigra est set formosa

Max Reger (1873–1916)/Matthias Claudius
Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit

Philippus de Monte (1521–1603)
Fui preso fui ferito

Ludwig Senfl (ca. 1490–1543)/Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Mollis inertia