Utrecht Early Music Festival, Pluto-ensemble, Festival Oude Muziek & Marnix De Cat
The Argonauts - Quest for the Golden Fleece
Video Director: Concerto Media - Artist: Utrecht Early Music Festival, Pluto-ensemble, Festival Oude Muziek & Marnix De Cat - Producer: Concerto Media - Conductor: Marnix De Cat - Composer: Anonymous, Pierre Fontaine, Richard de Bellengues dit Cardo, Guillaume Maelbecque, Walter Frye, Johannes Regis, Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Dufay, Firminus Caron & Nicolas Grenon - Orchestra: Pluto-ensemble
The Argonauts - Quest for the Golden Fleece
In 1419 Philip the Good inherits a realm stretching from Dijon to deep into the Netherlands. In 1430, he founds his Order of the Golden Fleece, which enables him to give form to and to maintain both his knightly ideals and his political relations. This legendary brotherhood provided Marnix De Cat and his singers with the inspiration for this programme: trumpets announce the arrival of the Duke and his retinue, and love’s praises are sung in refined chansons.