L . E . D . - LUCEAT eis, Domine

Looking forward to working with great colleagues, with the Plute Ensemble!

This concert is about ourselves.
About life with all its highs and lows, about darkness and the fire, about our eyes and ears being shut or open, our souls being hidden or illuminated.
It’s not every day that you hear all the varying characters of the gamba and a gamba consort, a multi-facetted and sweet-voiced trombone choir with swirling cornetti and a triumphant fanfare of natural trumpets, the heavenly polyphony of an angelic choir...
It’s not every day that you see one gamba metamorphose into 30 players of a late Renaissance orchestra on the podium.
It’s not every day that you experience, in one concert, all the human emotions and deepest feelings from the Renaissance time brought into our modern world.
Today, we take you on a sound adventure!
The never-performed 10-voice Requiem by Christophorus Straus (1626) with 6 bass gambas and 10 singers (with 2 bassi profundi ) will be the heart of an early 17th-century program presented by the Hathor Consort together with the vocal ensemble Pluto. Assisted by the brass players of Oltremontano, they form a large Renaissance ensemble that can bring the sounds of the best early Baroque music from northern Italy to Vienna to life.
Alongside the Straus Requiem “premier," you will hear canzonas and sonatas by Guammi, Valentini, Priuli, Hentzel and Stadlmayer's impressive natural trumpet fanfares. The grandness of this time period is the result of both its impressive textures and its finesse: the merging together of northern polyphonic filigree with the early Italian Baroque sound palette. The addition of large psalms and a Magnificat by Schütz and Monteverdi guarantee a sparkling and exciting musical evening.

HATHOR CONSORT:

Romina Lischka bass viola da gamba & conductor

Sophie Gent, Marrie Mooij violin

Irene Klein, Thomas Baeté, Liam Fennelly, Nicholas Milne

Bass viola da gamba

Joshua Cheatham violone

Francis Jacob Organ

Thomas Boysen Theorbo

Matthias Spaeter archlute

PLUTO ENSEMBLE:

Marnix De Cat countertenor & direction

Claire Lefilliâtre, Hannah Morrison soprano

Charles Daniels, Samuel Boden, Tore Denys tenor

Raitis Grigalis Baritone

Harry van der Kamp Bass

Joel Frederiksen, David McCune basso profundo

OLTREMONTANO ANTWERP:

Wim Becu bass trombone & conductor

Adrien Mabire, Anna Schall zinc

Robert Schlegl, Juan Gonzalez Martinez, Raphaël Robyns trombone

Alain De Rudder, Paul Voet, Niranjan Wiewickrema,

Yorick Roscam, Guy Godts natural trumpet