Love and mourning in the Renaissance

This concert focuses on the deepest emotions: love and death

We sing about the many facets of love – the longing for a loved one, her beauty, and the pain of a lover who feels cheated. At the same time, we also perform lamentations about death, including the moving Requiem aeternam from the Missa Pro fidelibus defunctis, and works such as Sassi, Palae, Sabbion by Andrea Gabrieli and Musae Jovis by Benedict Appenzeller, which were composed following the death of the great masters Adrian Willaert and Josquin Desprez.

Much of the music we perform has been handed down in beautiful manuscripts from the studio of Petrus Alamire, one of the last master calligraphers in Europe. We bring these old works to life on this special Sunday afternoon. Would you like to know more check the website for information (in Dutch)