The young vocal group Vox Luminis is currently enjoying a steep advance towards international fame. They have been widely acclaimed by the music press, winning the 2012 International Classical Music Award in the category ‘baroque vocal’ to boot! Conceived especially for the Adriatic festival edition of Laus Polyphoniae, the ensemble will offer Renaissance music by the Croatian composer Julije Javetić (Giulio Schiavetto).

Croatian Renaissance music resounds only rarely on concert stages today, but Vox Luminis proves its mettle by giving it pride of place. Furthermore, the ensemble commissioned musicological research around Javetić’s madrigals. Some of these songs will be performed again for the first time in the modern age at this very concert. A world premiere!

Performers
Lionel Meunier, artistic direction

29 August, 2012 11:00 -- St.-Joriskerk

Faithful to custom AMUZ offers you a well-assorted festival menu. Evidently Laus Polyphoniae will enable you this time to sample Adriatic cuisine! Every evening the focus will be on a different region or city, among others the Venetian cuisine.

First course: mozzarella, tomato & basilicum
Main course: choice of fish Venetian way (fillet of cod with cherry tomatoes, white wine, anchovies and flat-leaf parsley) OR chicken pizzaiola (fillet of chicken with bell pepper strips, tomato and Italian cheese)

The festival menu will be served in the AMUZ foyer at 6.00 p.m.. Ideal to combine with the Venetian concert program of the evening, performed by Zefiro Torna and Corpo Barocco. At 8 p.m. in AMUZ.

Concert tickets are not included. You are advised to make a reservation.

29 August, 2012 16:00 -- AMUZ

Manoli Blessi was the pseudonym of Antonio Molino, a poet, composer and theatre producer in 16th-century Venice. He wrote his poetry in the so-called ‘lingua greghesca’: an invented language, a bizarre mix of Venetian and Greek dialects. Zefiro Torna and the dancers of Corpo Barocco will bounce you with a revival of the burlesque extravagance of Blessi’s texts in the spirit of the commedia dell’arte.

Blessi’s oeuvre is very diverse: besides erotic songs, odes to female singers and parodies of the poetry of Petrarca and Bembo his Libro delle Greghesche also contains two elegies on the death of Adriaen Willaert. This concert approaches this motley collection with a matching musical sense of variation. Now the greghesche take their cue from simple folk genres, then again they are close to the refined Italian madrigal. A Pulcinella and a dancer take you to the octagon hall of Palazzo Cornaro in Padova, a sanctuary for the commedia dell’arte.

Performers
Karin Modigh, dance & commedia | Luca Lomazzi, dance & commedia | Sigrid T’Hooft, concept & choreography | Cécile Kempenaers, cantus | Els Van Laethem, cantus | Els Janssens, alt | Stephan Van Dyck, tenor | Matthew Baker, bass | Marleen Leicher, cornett | Hannelore Devaere, harp | Ivanka Neeleman, viola de gamba | Jurgen De bruyn,  renaissance guitar, lute & artistic direction

Photo (c) Lieven Dirckx
 

29 August, 2012 18:00 -- AMUZ

Manoli Blessi was the pseudonym of Antonio Molino, a poet, composer and theatre producer in 16th-century Venice. He wrote his poetry in the so-called ‘lingua greghesca’: an invented language, a bizarre mix of Venetian and Greek dialects. Zefiro Torna and the dancers of Corpo Barocco will bounce you with a revival of the burlesque extravagance of Blessi’s texts in the spirit of the commedia dell’arte.

Blessi’s oeuvre is very diverse: besides erotic songs, odes to female singers and parodies of the poetry of Petrarca and Bembo his Libro delle Greghesche also contains two elegies on the death of Adriaen Willaert. This concert approaches this motley collection with a matching musical sense of variation. Now the greghesche take their cue from simple folk genres, then again they are close to the refined Italian madrigal. A Pulcinella and a dancer take you to the octagon hall of Palazzo Cornaro in Padova, a sanctuary for the commedia dell’arte.

Performers
Karin Modigh, dance & commedia | Luca Lomazzi, dance & commedia | Sigrid T’Hooft, concept & choreography | Cécile Kempenaers, cantus | Els Van Laethem, cantus | Els Janssens, alt | Stephan Van Dyck, tenor | Matthew Baker, bass | Marleen Leicher, cornett | Hannelore Devaere, harp | Ivanka Neeleman, viola de gamba | Jurgen De bruyn, renaissance guitar, lute & artistic direction

Foto (c) Lieven Dirckx

29 August, 2012 20:15 -- AMUZ

The Croatian violinist Bojan Cicic got steeped in the music of the Venetian school of the 16th and 17th centuries, looking for the influence it exerted on the areas across the bay, at the east coast of the Adriatic Sea. With the assistance of the department of musicology of the University of Oxford he managed to uncover a treasure of hitherto unknown music.

Francesco Usper is one of the composers on the programme. Born in Parenzo (now Poreč, Croatia) he relocated to Venice with a view to studying with Andrea Gabrieli. Later he was appointed organist at San Marco basilica. Suonar Cantando also presents works by lesserknown Croatian composers who were active around 1600, and connects this music with the then authoritative treatises on diminutions (ornamentation with short notes).

I.c.w. Jumpstart Jr. Foundation, Organisatie Oude Muziek, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Concertgebouw Brugge & BOZAR

Performers
Esther Brazil, soprano | Raffaele Pe,alto | NN, tenor | NN, bass | Gawain Glenton, cornett | Bojan Cicic, violin & artistic direction | Eligio Quinteiro, lute | Mahan Esfahani, organ

Programme
Work by Gabriello Puliti, Giovanni Bassano, Girolamo dalla Casa, Andrea Antico da Montona e.a.

To hear some of Bojans recordings click here.

 

30 August, 2012 11:00 -- Elzenveld

Faithful to custom AMUZ offers you a well-assorted festival menu. Evidently Laus Polyphoniae will enable you this time to sample Adriatic cuisine! Every evening the focus will be on a different region or city, among others the Croatian cuisine.

First course: clear chicken broth
Main course: choice of grilled salmon with pomegranate vinaigrette OR Croatian burger (homemade hamburger with ham and cheese and a fresh salad)

The festival menu will be served in the AMUZ foyer at 6.00 p.m.. Ideal to combine with the Croatian concert program of the evening, performed by Faroski Kantaduri. At 8 p.m. in St.-Jacobskerk.

Concert tickets are not included. You are advised to make a reservation.

30 August, 2012 16:00 -- AMUZ