In what kind of world did Monteverdi live as a youngster? Who were his musical models, colleagues and competitors? Which ideas were imparted to him as the enabling condition to grow from a young pharmacist’s son into the great Claudio Monteverdi whom we know from the Vespers and Orfeo? Concerto Palatino will sort this out for you. A festive festival opener with international, vocal and instrumental top soloists!

This tailor-made programme includes music by Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Monteverdi’s teacher in Cremona, and by Benedetto Pallavicino, one of his conductors at the court of Mantua. Other composers passing in review are Adrian Willaert, the Gabrieli brothers, and evidently young Claudio himself! The singers and the wind instrument players of Concerto Palatino will get their act together for a splendid homage to Monteverdi’s young genius and its breeding ground: grandeur assured!

22 August, 2014 19:00 -- St.-Carolus Borromeuskerk

In what kind of world did Monteverdi live as a youngster? Who were his musical models, colleagues and competitors? Which ideas were imparted to him as the enabling condition to grow from a young pharmacist’s son into the great Claudio Monteverdi whom we know from the Vespers and Orfeo? Concerto Palatino will sort this out for you. A festive festival opener with international, vocal and instrumental top soloists!

This tailor-made programme includes music by Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Monteverdi’s teacher in Cremona, and by Benedetto Pallavicino, one of his conductors at the court of Mantua. Other composers passing in review are Adrian Willaert, the Gabrieli brothers, and evidently young Claudio himself! The singers and the wind instrument players of Concerto Palatino will get their act together for a splendid homage to Monteverdi’s young genius and its breeding ground: grandeur assured!

22 August, 2014 21:00 -- St.-Carolus Borromeuskerk

Year after year Laus Polyphoniae and Musica present the most promising young music ensembles that apply themselves to historically informed performance practice. The musicians have been selected for coaching by the American soprano and early music specialist Jill Feldman. To cap it all, the ensembles present themselves to you, the festival public.

You are invited to discover the selected musicians of 2014 during a concert walk in the Zurenborg district. At some special venues they will play amazingly diverse repertoire during the opening weekend of the festival. The walk starts at the pub Den Draak (Draakplaats 1, 2018 Antwerp) and will take up both the morning and the afternoon. At noon there will be a lunch pause, to be filled in at your own discretion. 

In cooperation with Musica, Impulse center for music

23 August, 2014 08:00 -- Café Den Draak

Year after year Laus Polyphoniae and Musica present the most promising young music ensembles that apply themselves to historically informed performance practice. The musicians have been selected for coaching by the American soprano and early music specialist Jill Feldman. To cap it all, the ensembles present themselves to you, the festival public. You are invited to discover the selected musicians of 2014 during a concert walk in the Zurenborg district. At some special venues they will play amazingly diverse repertoire during the opening weekend of the festival. The walk starts at the pub Den Draak (Draakplaats 1, 2018 Antwerp) and will take up both the morning and the afternoon. At noon there will be a lunch pause, to be filled in at your own discretion.

23 August, 2014 10:00 -- ZURENBORG Start: Café Den Draak

The shift from Renaissance polyphony to early baroque monody in Italy is one of the most important upheavals in western music history. In this musing nocturne, entitled La Clessidra (the hourglass), crowd puller Marco Beasley brings some highlights from the most popular music sources of that era.

The Roman nobleman Emilio de’ Cavalieri was a central figure in the musical innovation of about the year 1600. Through the publication of his Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo the ‘recitar cantando’ was also born concurrently, being an essential step in the development of the opera. This leads us smoothly to fragments from Jacopo Peri’s L’Euridice and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Indispensable in this music selection is also Giulio Caccini’s volume Le Nuove Musiche, with songs for solo song and basso continuo. This tribute to the magical symbiosis of text and music will not fail to move you.  

23 August, 2014 13:00 -- AMUZ

The shift from Renaissance polyphony to early baroque monody in Italy is one of the most important upheavals in western music history. In this musing nocturne, entitled La Clessidra (the hourglass), crowd puller Marco Beasley brings some highlights from the most popular music sources of that era. 

The Roman nobleman Emilio de’ Cavalieri was a central figure in the musical innovation of about the year 1600. Through the publication of his Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo the ‘recitar cantando’ was also born concurrently, being an essential step in the development of the opera. This leads us smoothly to fragments from Jacopo Peri’s L’Euridice and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Indispensable in this music selection is also Giulio Caccini’s volume Le Nuove Musiche, with songs for solo song and basso continuo. 

23 August, 2014 15:00 -- AMUZ