"Last summer I made a performance with Currende, the choir conducted by Erik Van Nevel, in the context of the commemoration of the Great War, which was so good, what a group of voices can do with feelings and a story is magical."
Lieve Blancquaert, photographer, in Knack Focus
Saint Peter's Church, Leuven
Thursdays 12, 19, 26 and Friday, December 27, each at 6 p.m.
After the success of previous years, Currende is once again putting together a particularly attractive and varied program with Spanish and Portuguese Christmas music. 6 singers, 2 violas da gamba, organ, violin, recorder and theorbo together create cheerful and almost dancing Christmas sounds. Works by Francesco Guerrero, Juan Navarro, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Duarte Lobo and many others, partly arranged by Erik Van Nevel himself.
Tickets and information on Wintertijd Leuven
Sunday, November 17 at 10 a.m.
in the Sint-Pieterskerk in Leuven
Heinrich Isaac, Missa Carminum / Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?
De Manchicourt, Cantantibus organis (Cecilia motet)
Heinrich Isaac was born around 1450 in Brabant. Between 1480 and 1492 he worked for Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, where he was organist in the cathedral. After spending a period in Innsbruck, Emperor Maximilian appointed him in 1497 court composer in Vienna, the most prestigious post a musician could receive.
Image: Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies, Saint Cecilia, 1829 (MSK, Ghent)
Cipriano de Rore: Le Vergine
The poetry of Francesco Petrarca has inspired many artists through the ages. His sonets and stanzes are so musical and speak very intensely to the imagination. His muse Laura, who in a certain sense has always remained an unattainable love and for which he spent almost all his life in literary ecstasy, has been a constant inspiration to him.
More about this new Currende CD
"Polyphony or baroque, it's always a party at Eriks, I know nobody else who can translate things technically in such a way and then make music out of it again."
Arnout Malfliet, bass
