Meet last year's EMTV Award winner: Le Caravansérail!
In 2025, the very first edition of the EMTV Award took place to celebrate the 3-year anniversary of Early Music Television. After a fierce battle, one concert recording emerged victorious: Four Bachs in Berlin by Le Caravansérail!
To the concert
Team's choice: Wilmer de Jong (head of ticketing)
“The late night concerts in the atmospheric Pieterskerk are always a special part of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. Slowly drifting into the night, after a long day filled with concerts, to the tranquil sounds of early music… Not with this particularly impressive concert however, because the young singers of Cantoría made sure the audience was on the edge of their seat from the very first note. No wonder the ensemble would become the festival’s artist in residence in 2024 and sell out all concerts!”
Cantoría / Jorge Losana – La Guerra / La Guerre (Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2023)
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Team's choice: Louise Godschalk (ticket sales & marketing and communication)
“Ratas del viejo Mundo puts an end to the image people may have of early music as an elite art form. Early music is for everyone and for every occasion! This concert programme, recorded during the Season Oude Muziek 2022-2023, was full of virtuoso polyphony. But if you take a closer look at the lyrics, it turns out that there are also all kinds of dirty songs, written for parties and celebrations. History is really brought to life.”
Ratas del viejo Mundo – Baston: the other Josquin (Seizoen Oude Muziek 2022-2023)
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Team’s choice: Hester Wolters (deputy-director)
“It’s always a party when ĀRT HOUSE 17 makes an appearance. Every year, the company puts together a special musical theatre performance based on the theme of that year’s Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. Besides using historical instruments, the ensemble considers it important to do justice to the broader context in which the music was performed. So far, this has resulted in programmes about Frederick the Great, the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, and an operatic adventure in the Spanish city of Seville. Olé!"
ĀRT HOUSE 17 – ¡Olé! (Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2024)
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Team’s choice: Marjolein Wellink (editor)
“What a pleasure to be able to listen to one of my absolute highlights from the last Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht non-stop. The Ricercar Consort plays beautiful music by Schein and Schütz, accompanied by soprano Yetzabel Arias. Sadness and uncertainty go together with resilience and, above all, hope: we keep going, say the contemplative lyrics and instrumental accompaniment, until there is peace. This concert has had an impact on me that I will not soon forget."
Ricercar Consort - Da Pacem (Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2025)
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Team’s choice: Cas van Dijk (marketing and communication)
“The joy radiates from the screen in this recording of Maayan Licht and BREZZA at last year’s Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. The star sopranista shines in the virtuoso arias of Handel, a composer who always brightens my day. BREZZA not only excellently accompanies Licht, but also plays spontaneous improvisations in the preludes. Early music is always beautiful, but I don't hear it played so fresh and with such enthusiasm very often!"
Maayan Licht & BREZZA – Handel in motion (Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2025)
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Team’s choice: Inge van Nimwegen (marketeer EMTV)
“Enrike Solinís and his Euskal Barrokensemble delve into the musical world of the sixteenth-century explorer Juan Sebastián Elkano, influenced by the different musical cultures on board of his ship. A journey that takes you through the traditional music of the Basque Country, the sounds of the Polynesian islands, and the Spanish Renaissance. How amazing to enjoy 500 years of repertoire from all over the world at home!”
Euskal Barrokensemble / Enrike Solinís – The first voyage around the world (Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2024)
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