Huelgas Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel
Supreme Englishness
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Recorded live at the Domkerk Utrecht, 28 August 2022
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About this concert
With late-medieval repertoire in the 'florid style' the Huelgas Ensemble taps into the core of English music tradition. An infinite number of twigs, leaves and buds spring from the melodies, together forming an ultra-refined complex. Ornamentation elevated to its essence: this euphonious but refined concert programme ranges from the iconic canon Sumer is icumen in to the Missa Ave Maria by Tudor composer Thomas Ashwell.
Programme
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Thomas Ashwell
Missa Ave Maria
Gloriac1478-after 1513 -
Anonymous
Gymel: Virgo salvavit hominem
c1350 -
Thomas Ashwell
Missa Ave Maria
Credo -
Edmund Turges
Magnificat anima mea
c1450-early 16th century -
Anonymous
Exulta Syon / Exulta Syon filia iam noli flere / En ai je bien trouvé
first half 14th century -
Thomas Ashwell
Missa Ave Maria
Sanctus -
Anonymous
Sumer is icumen in / Sing cucu nu, sing cucu
13th century -
Thomas Ashwell
Missa Ave Maria
Agnus Dei
Musicians
- Witte Maria Weber, Dorothea Jakob, Hannah Ely, Helen Cassano cantus
- Olivier Coiffet, Paul Bentley-Angell, Adriaan De Koster, Loïc Paulin, Tom Phillips, Matthew Vine tenor
- Kees Jan de Koning, Guillaume Olry bassus
- Paul Van Nevel musical direction
About the performers
The Huelgas Ensemble, founded by Paul Van Nevel and named after the 13th-century Codex Las Huelgas, has for over forty years been one of the leading ensembles in the area of medieval and Renaissance music. The ensemble works with varying vocal and instrumental line-ups according to the requirements of the repertoire. The Huelgas Ensemble has given many memorable performances at the Festival and has made dozens of CDs.
In the early 70s conductor Paul Van Nevel founded his Huelgas Ensemble and has become one of the champions of European polyphony from the 12th to the 16th centuries. Van Nevel has been a guest professor at various conservatoires and is honorary guest conductor of the Nederlands Kamerkoor. He has received various awards, including the Prix in Honorem of the Académie Charles Cros, an Edison, a Diapason d’Or and the Cannes Classical Award. 2018 saw the publication of his book Het landschap van de polyfonisten: De wereld van de Franco-Flamands (1400-1600) (The Landscape of the Polyphonists: The world of the Franco-Flemish composers (1400-1600).