Ensemble Leones, famed for its intense and wellconstructed concerts, has set its sights on the Chansonnier Cordiforme, one of the most unique music manuscripts. This especially beautiful, heart-shaped manuscript contains French and Italian courtly love songs by well-known composers such as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem and Gilles Binchois, as well as by forgotten masters. Ensemble Leones plays and sings music about all aspects of love: hope, desire, and melancholy contemplations of past loves.

21 August, 2017 13:00 -- amuz

Enjoy a festival menu before the evening concerts at AMUZ during Laus Polyphoniae. You can also have lunch in the foyer. Concert tickets are not included in the meal prices stated.

FESTIVAL MENU
STARTER, choice of:
Fresh salad with buffalo mozzarella and grilled vegetables, Focaccia duo or Melanzane alla parmigiana (baked aubergines with mozzarella and fresh basil)

MAIN COURSE, choice of:
Cannelloni with cod and crab, Veal roulade with Parma ham, red pesto & taleggio or Lasagne with green asparagus, ricotta & spinach

LUNCH
Every day from Saturday 19.08 until Saturday 26.08.17, from 12.00 onwards in the AMUZ foyer. Daily selection of bruschetta at various prices depending on availability that day. No reservation required

21 August, 2017 18:00 -- amuz

The ensembles artistic director, Pedro Memelsdorff, has studied the masses and motets of the Faenza codex, an important manuscript for both vocal and instrumental music. Several generations of scribes contributed to the manuscript, and recent research has made it possible to reconstruct the music. Mala Punica is the ideal ensemble for this complex, refined work dating from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. With voices and instruments, the ensemble reveals the wealth and variety of religious music in the manuscript, from simple Gregorian chants to exceptionally rich polyphony.

21 August, 2017 20:00 -- amuz

The cult of the Virgin Mary inspired many superb songs of praise to Mary: Magnificats and Salve reginas. Stile Antico, which has received many awards for its recordings of Renaissance music, has turned its attention to English sources including the Peterhouse Partbooks, a collection of masterpieces of English religious music from before the Reformation. At its second concert for Laus Polyphoniae, the British ensemble will perform heavenly Magnificats by Robert Jones and Robert White and Salve Reginas by Richard Pygott.

21 August, 2017 22:15 -- st-andrieskerk

The mediaeval Iberian poetry collection Cantigas de Amigo by Martim Codax is a womans perspective on absent love. A young woman is waiting on the beach, full of hope, for her beloved to return. The waves of the sea reflect her sensuality and symbolise her subconscious. Beautiful, atmospheric, boundless and delicate, Codax songs are among the loveliest in the cantiga genre. VivaBiancaLuna Biffi sings and accompanies herself on the vielle. With Pierre Hamon on the mediaeval flute, she creates a gripping evocation of the sea.

22 August, 2017 13:00 -- amuz

This documentary transports you to the palace of Isabella dEste in Mantua and takes you through different rooms where songs are sung for her. The documentary, supervised by Anne MacNeil (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is a combination of music, performance, architecture, literature and historical research, fittingly introduced by Marco Beasley, one of the singers and narrators in the film.

(English spoken)

22 August, 2017 15:00 -- amuz