Paul van Nevel, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival Oude Muziek & Huelgas Ensemble
Burgundian Alphabet I - Anonymous to Incertus
Video Director: Concerto Media - Artist: Paul van Nevel, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival Oude Muziek & Huelgas Ensemble - Producer: Concerto Media - Conductor: Paul van Nevel - Chorus: Huelgas Ensemble - Composer: Anonymous, Pierre Fontaine, Nicolas Champion, Gilles Binchois, Incertus, Antonius Divitis, Horlay, Egidius, Antoine Busnoys & Nicolas Grenon
Burgundian Alphabet I - Anonymous to Incertus
Enjoy a genuine musical marathon as a prelude to the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2018. During three concerts, the Huelgas Ensemble sing an entire alphabet of Burgundian composers, one for every letter. It concerns composers who were employed by the Burgundian court, with a special exception for Josquin, prince of polyphony. The singers perform arm-in-arm with Paul Van Nevel, visiting mass movements, motets and chansons by known and masters-to-be-discovered like Champion, Divitis, Binchois, de Orto, van Weerbeke, and many others. With “anonymous” to “incognito” they bring a double ode to the many nameless polyphonists who nonetheless made breathtaking contributions to the polyphonic repertoire of the 15th century.