"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
During the Holy Week, Currende can be listened to for three consecutive days. Thursday 18 and Saturday 20 April in Brussels, Friday 19 April in Bruges.
White Thursday - 18 April at 6 pm
St. Michael and Ste-Gudule Cathedral, Brussels.
Music for vocal consort and organ by, among others, Orlandus Lassus and Charles Joseph Van Helmont.
Good Friday, April 19 at 7 pm.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk Bruges.
Clemen's Requiem.
Music by Clemens non Papa and Nicolas Gombert. Orchestration: 6 singers, renaissance violin and 3 violas da gamba.
Easter vigil on April 20 at 9 pm
St. Michael and Ste-Gudule Cathedral, Brussels.
Impressive service with lots of music for choir and organ. From sung monody in silent darkness to magisterial choral work in a fully illuminated cathedral.
Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 6 pm
in the St. Martin's Church in Ronse
"The Rore vs. Lassus - a dissection"
Curator Erik Van Nevel conducts Currende in an exclusive concert, with Bart Jacobs on organ and Ben Van Nespen on harpsichord.
Orlandus Lassus has based many of his compositions on De Rore's work. Lassus especially inspired the madrigals of De Rore. In the concert both composers are placed opposite each other and very precisely with those works that Lassus has used as a model.
All information about the De Rore Festival can be found on ronse.be
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
