Le Miroir de Musique / Baptiste Romain
On a pilgrimage with Thomas à Kempis
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Recorded live at the Pieterskerk Utrecht, 10 February 2022
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About this concert
Uplifting the soul through simplicity and purity: that was the motto of the Modern Devotion, a spiritual movement that preceded the ideas of the Reformation. Le Miroir de Musique holds up a mirror to history with a selection of fifteenth-century manuscripts chronicling a wide range of music for prayer services. The programme’s leitmotif is the work of mystic Thomas à Kempis: a key figure within Modern Devotion, who is also said to have been active as a composer.
Programme
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Anonymous
Wol up ghesellen yst an der tyet
Truren moet ic nacht en dach -
Thomas a Kempis?
O dulcissime Ihesu, quam amabilis
c1380-1471 -
Anonymous
Jubilus Bernardi
Gaude virgo mater Christi
Digne colat ecclesia
Och voer die doot en is gheen boet
Salve Salve mater -
Thomas a Kempis?
Rubens rosa
Dic nobis, per quam regulam -
Anonymous
Ic dronc soe gaerne den zuetten most
Die mey spruyt uut den dorren hout
Ic wil my selven troesten
Musicians
- Sabine Lutzenberger, Tessa Roos mezzo-soprano
- Jacob Lawrence tenor
- Raitis Grigalis baritone
- Elizabeth Rumsey fiddle
- Marc Lewon lute, quintern
- Rui Stähelin lute, bass
- Baptiste Romain fiddle and musical direction
About the performers
Le Miroir de Musique, directed by Baptiste Romain, specializes in the music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, from the golden age of the troubadours to the humanist movements of the 16th century. Most of the ensemble’s musicians are graduates of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The name of the ensemble is borrowed from Jacques de Liège’s compendium Speculum Musicae (Mirror of Music), one of the most extensive works about music of the Middle Ages.