Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe
Petrarch revisited
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht, 28 August 2023
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About this concert
He wrote countless love sonnets and inspired an entire literary movement: fourteenth-century Francesco Petrarch was one of the greatest poets of all time. During the Concert for Friends, his poems, rich in imagery, will be revived, set to music from two centuries later. Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, presents an anthology from the madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi, Luca Marenzio, Cipriano de Rore and Giovanni da Palestrina. It was composers such as these who, from the late Renaissance onwards, breathed new life into Petrarch's poetry from the Trecento (the Italian fourteenth century), thus making it immortal. Petrarch's poetry inspired madrigals in which composers coloured far outside the lines, exploring new musical horizons and seeking out the extremes of expressiveness.
Programme
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Claudio Monteverdi
Voi ch'ascoltate
1567-1643 -
Salamone Rossi
Sinfonia Quinta
1570-ca. 1630 -
Luca Marenzio
Cosi nel mio parlar
1553/54-1599 -
Cipriano de Rore
Vergine tal'è terra
1515/16-1565 -
Claudio Monteverdi
Oimè il bel viso
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Cipriano de Rore / Giovanni Bassano
Io canterei d'amore
1560/61-1617 -
Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Quivi sospiri
1554-1607 -
Giuseppe Scarani
Sonata sesta a due soprani
fl. 1628-1642 -
Marco da Gagliano
Vergine Bella
1582-1643 -
Claudio Monteverdi
O ciechi il tanto
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Luca Marenzio
Solo e pensoso
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Cipriano de Rore
Vergine sol'al mondo
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina / Francesco Rognoni Taeggio
Pulchra es amica mea
1525/26-1594 / 2nd half 16th century-in or after 1626 -
Cipriano de Rore
Mia Benigna Fortuna
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Orlandus Lassus
S'una fede amorosa
1530/32-1594 -
Claudio Monteverdi
Hor che'l ciel e la terra
Musicians
- Miriam Allen soprano
- Barbora Kabátková mezzo-soprano
- Marine Fribourg alto
- Benedict Hymas, Tore Tom Denys tenor
- Jimmy Hollyday bass
- Anais Chen violin
- Thomas Boysen lute
- Lambert Colson cornetto
- Ageet Zweistra cello
- Maude Gratton harpsichord
- Philippe Herreweghe musical direction
About the performers
Collegium Vocale Gent was founded in 1970 by a group of friends studying at the University of Ghent, on Philippe Herreweghe’s initiative. They were one of the first ensembles to use new ideas about baroque performance practice in vocal music. Their text-oriented and rhetorical approach gave the ensemble the transparent sound with which it would acquire world fame and perform at the major concert venues and music festivals of the world. In recent years, Collegium Vocale Gent has grown organically into an extremely flexible ensemble whose wide repertoire encompasses a range of different stylistic periods. Its greatest strength is its ability to assemble the ideal performing forces for any project.
Philippe Herreweghe was born in Ghent, where he combined his university studies with musical training at the conservatory. During the same period, he began conducting and in 1970 founded Collegium Vocale Gent. Since the 1990s, he has also been a conductor with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Philippe Herreweghe has built up an extensive discography with more than 130 recordings. In 2021, he received the Ultima, the prize for General Cultural Merit, from the Flemish Government as a crowning achievement for his entire career.