Utrecht Festival of Early Music

[ardcarp]

Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of 14th-century vocal music given by Sollazzo Ensemble at the 2022 Utrecht Early Music Festival. They present a monumental fresco in which past and present meet. The starting point for this scenically conceived concert is a panorama of medieval frescoes and paintings in which biblical protagonists are joined by music-making angels. These angels accompany the scenes with imaginary heavenly music.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d62m

I wonder if they have particular frescoes in mind? We'll have to imagine them aurally anyway!

I have to admit to not knowing about the Sollazzo Ensemble, but here is their line-up: https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/we...secular-songs/

[oddoneout]

Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of 14th-century vocal music given by Sollazzo Ensemble at the 2022 Utrecht Early Music Festival. They present a monumental fresco in which past and present meet. The starting point for this scenically conceived concert is a panorama of medieval frescoes and paintings in which biblical protagonists are joined by music-making angels. These angels accompany the scenes with imaginary heavenly music.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d62m

I wonder if they have particular frescoes in mind? We'll have to imagine them aurally anyway!

I have to admit to not knowing about the Sollazzo Ensemble, but here is their line-up: https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/we...secular-songs/

Another concert from this year's offering, given by Les Ambassadeurs La Grand Ecurie, was chopped up and dispersed, in various time slots, in Afternoon Concert broadcasts this week. I'd not heard of them but was very taken both with the music they played and their performance - but why could we not have had the concert complete? It's not as if R3 is awash with Early Music content.

[RichardB]

Many of the Utrecht festival's concerts are broadcast in the Netherlands and then uploaded to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...al+oude+muziek

[Nick Armstrong]

Many of the Utrecht festival's concerts are broadcast in the Netherlands and then uploaded to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...al+oude+muziek

What a terrific channel

Thank you

[Mandryka]

Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of 14th-century vocal music given by Sollazzo Ensemble at the 2022 Utrecht Early Music Festival. They present a monumental fresco in which past and present meet. The starting point for this scenically conceived concert is a panorama of medieval frescoes and paintings in which biblical protagonists are joined by music-making angels. These angels accompany the scenes with imaginary heavenly music.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d62m

I wonder if they have particular frescoes in mind? We'll have to imagine them aurally anyway!

I have to admit to not knowing about the Sollazzo Ensemble, but here is their line-up: https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/we...secular-songs/

Sollazzo Ensemble are wonderful! i saw them in Utrecht in 2018 (or was it 2019!) and it was an unforgettable concert.

I may go this year to the festival. Most years it is a bit too focussed on baroque for me, but this year is an anniversary of Byrd’s death, so there may be some earlier things.

[kernelbogey]

Sollazzo Ensemble are wonderful! i saw them in Utrecht in 2018 (or was it 2019!) and it was an unforgettable concert.

I may go this year to the festival. Most years it is a bit too focussed on baroque for me, but this year is an anniversary of Byrd’s death, so there may be some earlier things.

Do you know the dates Mandryka? I couldn't find them clearly online.

[oddoneout]

Do you know the dates Mandryka? I couldn't find them clearly online.

This https://www.efa-aef.eu/en/members/492/ says 25 August to 3 September
Found more info here https://oudemuziek.nl/festival/festival-2023/ Looks as if full programme will come out in May

[Mandryka]

It’s a real festival feeling, I mean there are concerts morning, afternoon, evening, and night if you want. Utrecht is very pleasant - canals like Amsterdam, university town, easy to get to.

[kernelbogey]

This https://www.efa-aef.eu/en/members/492/ says 25 August to 3 September
Found more info here https://oudemuziek.nl/festival/festival-2023/ Looks as if full programme will come out in May

Thank you Mandryka and Oddie.

I have been thinking for some time of going to an early music festival, never having done so. Herne was on my possibles list, having heard odds and ends from there on TTN. This sounds lovely and the Netherlands is a bonus for me.

[RichardB]

Herne was on my possibles list, having heard odds and ends from there on TTN. This sounds lovely and the Netherlands is a bonus for me.

I don't know whether you're aware that the Herne festival used to issue a box set of CDs documenting each festival. I haven't been to the festival but I have a few of the recordings. I find its programming a bit more hit and miss than Utrecht. Anyway I am certainly going to attend one or two concerts in Utrecht this year.

[smittims]

re your #2, oddoneout, I must say I hear a fair amount of early music on Through the nIght, around 4 a.m. and they do sometimes start the programme around 1230 with a complete concert. Poland seems to be quite a place for it.

[vinteuil]

It’s a real festival feeling, I mean there are concerts morning, afternoon, evening, and night if you want. Utrecht is very pleasant - canals like Amsterdam, university town, easy to get to.

... Utrecht is a delight - and the Early Music Festival there one of my favourites. Architecturally the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (both the previous and the new buildings) perhaps hard to love...

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[antongould]

... Utrecht is a delight - and the Early Music Festival there one of my favourites. Architecturally the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (both the previous and the new buildings) perhaps hard to love...

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Surely you don’t prefer it to Cambois …….. ??????

[Mandryka]

There are some really nice things in Antwerp’s early music festival this year, given my interests. Blue Heron’s Ockeghem, Capella Pratensis’ Barbireau and the inevitable Paul Van Nevel and Bjorn Schmelzer! I’m tempted to go for a couple of weeks - I like the city too.

https://amuz.be/laus-polyphoniae-2023-antwerpen-townscape-soundscape/

Hopefully all the Renaissance music in Antwerp this year will mean that there’s a fair amount of it in Utrecht too - in which case, I shall have to book some concerts there!

Does anyone here know Basel? There doesn’t seem to be an early music festival but I’d like to visit the Schola Cantorum for a concert or two - I’ve never been able to find out what’s playing.

[RichardB]

Architecturally the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (both the previous and the new buildings) perhaps hard to love...

That whole area around the station is a nasty mess to be sure.