Last year Stile Antico offered one of the highlights of Laus Polyphoniae. The international success of the young British singers obviously did not come out of thin air. Enough reason to reinvite them, this time with music that is completely new for the group: motets from the earliest volumes of Giaches de Wert. 

Firmly entrenched in Italy as a Franco-Flemish composer, de Wert conspicuously influenced his younger contemporary Claudio Monteverdi. De Wert’s oeuvre spans the transition from Renaissance to early baroque, and like Monteverdi he earned great acclaim in both composition styles. The early motets that Stile Antico selected for this concert demonstrate de Wert’s masterly command of counterpoint. 

25 August, 2014 20:00 -- ST.-Pauluskerk

Torquato Tasso: prodigy and celebrated poet, but also a tormented lunatic who never earned a penny with his most famous work, La Gerusalemme liberata. Until the beginning of the 20th century Tasso was one of the most widely read poets in Europe. Born performer Marco Beasley reads from his oeuvre, breathing new life into it.

Tasso’s best-known poems appeared at a great moment when music, influenced by composers such as Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Marenzio, underwent a genuine transformation in Italy. The mellifluous melodies and sensual melancholy of, for example, Aminta, are hand in glove with the contemporary spirit of the age. Until two centuries after his death Tasso’s influence on the opera and the cantata was perceptible. A rediscovery is in order! We celebrate this occasion at the studio of Peter Paul Rubens, who at the court of Mantua most probably met our festival star Monteverdi.

25 August, 2014 20:15 -- Rubenshuis

Torquato Tasso: prodigy and celebrated poet, but also a tormented lunatic who never earned a penny with his most famous work, La Gerusalemme liberata. Until the beginning of the 20th century Tasso was one of the most widely read poets in Europe. Born performer Marco Beasley reads from his oeuvre, breathing new life into it. 

Tasso’s best-known poems appeared at a great moment when music, influenced by composers such as Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Marenzio, underwent a genuine transformation in Italy. The mellifluous melodies and sensual melancholy of, for example, Aminta, are hand in glove with the contemporary spirit of the age. Until two centuries after his death Tasso’s influence on the opera and the cantata was perceptible. A rediscovery is in order! We celebrate this occasion at the studio of Peter Paul Rubens, who at the court of Mantua most probably met our festival star Monteverdi. 

25 August, 2014 22:15 -- Rubenshuis

RossoPorpora searched for what was produced in the 16th and 17th century in the genre of madrigalism. This quest along North Italian cities leads us among others to the Flemish composer Giaches de Wert, who in the ducal palace of Mantua paved the way for his successor Claudio Monteverdi. 

Carlo Gesualdo in Ferrara explored chromaticism at the cutting edge as well as musical illustration of the text. In Venice Heinrich Schütz concluded his formative years with Giovanni Gabrieli, publishing his Primo libro di madrigali, a profane exception in his otherwise exclusively religious oeuvre. No more madrigal books by Schütz were to appear. RossoPorpora is a young Italian ensemble that made its mark at the international REMA showcase in Marseille. Laus Polyphoniae proudly presents the group to you. 

26 August, 2014 11:00 -- AMUZ

RossoPorpora Ensemble searched for what was produced in the 16th and 17th century in the genre of madrigalism. This quest along North Italian cities leads us among others to the Flemish composer Giaches de Wert, who in the ducal palace of Mantua paved the way for his successor Claudio Monteverdi. 

Carlo Gesualdo in Ferrara explored chromaticism at the cutting edge as well as musical illustration of the text. In Venice Heinrich Schütz concluded his formative years with Giovanni Gabrieli, publishing his Primo libro di madrigali, a profane exception in his otherwise exclusively religious oeuvre. No more madrigal books by Schütz were to appear. RossoPorpora is a young Italian group that made its mark at the international REMA showcase in Marseille. Laus Polyphoniae proudly presents the group to you. 

26 August, 2014 13:00 -- AMUZ

Join the fun-loving company on Sunday 24, Monday 25 or Tuesday 26 August between 6:00 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. for a picnic in the garden of Peter Paul Rubens. You can order a basket with Italian delicacies and wine for two persons.

The basket contains:
Pasta salad with grilled vegetables 
Insalata Caprese
Grilled Focaccia with Taleggio
Antipasti (chees & charcuterie)
Ciabatta with tapenades
Fruit
Dessert
Bottle of wine (red, white or rosé)

You can picnic until 10.15 p.m. At that time Recitare Tasso starts, a concert with Marco Beasley and Marco Mencoboni, also in Rubens’ House. You do not need a ticket for the show in order to enjoy the picnic. 

The Picnic all’Italiana takes place in the framework of the early music festival Laus Polyphoniae. I.c.w. Rubens’ House. 

26 August, 2014 16:00 -- Rubenshuis