Huelgas Ensemble / Paul van Nevel
The ear of Baldassare Castiglione
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Recorded live at the Domkerk Utrecht, 29 August 2022
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About this concert
In the gallery of honour of Renaissance literature, Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) can be found on the most important shelf. Baldassare Castiglione wrote the compendium, which deals with courtly notions of morality and etiquette exactly one year before his death. Since then he himself has become the subject of countless studies and novels, and is now receiving a musical portrayal from the Huelgas Ensemble.
Van Nevel's skill meets Castiglione's musical world in a programme that visits various places where the top author and diplomat worked. The court of the House of Este in Milan forms the starting point of a journey that leads, through motets, masses, chansons and Italian songs by Loyset Compère, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Antoine Bruhier and Francisco de Peñalosa, as far as Toledo, where Baldassare died in 1529.
Programme
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1496-1499 / Milan - employed by Ludovico Sforza & Beatrice d’Este
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Anonymous
Quando lo pomo vien dalo pomaro
(from: Liedboek van Beatrice d’Este, Biblioteca Trivulziana Ms. 55) -
Anonymous
Pensate s'el fu doglia di morire
***ca. 1500 -
1499-1504 / Mantua - employed by count Francesco Gonzaga
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Loyset Compère
Officium de Cruce
ca. 1445-1518 -
Bartolomeo Tromboncino
O dolce farfarela
1470-after 1534 -
Peregrinus Cesena
Non pensar che mai te lassi
***fl. 1494-1508 -
1504-1513 / Urbino - humanist at the court of Urbino
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Hylaire
Ascendens Christus in altum
fl. early 16th century -
Anonymous
Detro mia gioia instrumental
early 16th century -
Anonymous
Di pensier in pensier
***ca. 1505 -
1513-1523 / Roma - ambassador of Urbino at the Vatican
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Gaspar van Weerbeke
Adonai sanctissime Domine
ca. 1445-after 1516 -
Anonymous
Lauda: Cum desiderio vo cercando
ca. 1510 -
Anonymous
Cucù, cucù, ognon canti cucù
ca. 1515 -
Antoine Bruhier
Missa Et la la la
Sanctus
***?-after 1521 -
1524-1529 / Papal ambassador to Spain - Castiglione dies in 1529 in Toledo
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Francisco de Peñalosa
Missa Ave Maria
Agnus Deica. 1470-1528
Musicians
- Dorothea Jakob, Helen Cassano cantus
- Paul Bentley-Angell, Adriaan De Koster, Loïc Paulin, Matthew Vine tenor
- Kees Jan de Koning, Guillaume Olry bassus
- Bart Coen, Silke Jacobsen, Peter De Clercq recorder
- Silke Jacobsen crumhorn
- Lies Wyers viola da gamba, lirone
- 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).