Concerts from around the country, recorded by Concertzender (Classical & Early Music). In this Christmas period we broadcast two Christmas concerts which we recorded recently. In the concerts you can hear early Dutch Christmas music. They are ‘Een Renaissance Kerstmis’ by Trigon ensemble and ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ by Cappella Pratensis.
A) Trigon – ‘Een Renaissance Kerstmis’, Christmas songs from the Netherlands from the 15th up to early 17th century handwritings.
On Sunday 16 December the Trigon ensemble brought, after 400 years, Christmas songs of the Amsterdam beguines, from around 1600 AD, to us in the attractive medieval Huys Dever.
The music the Amsterdam beguines sang in the beginning of the seventeenth century connects, although later noted, seamlessly to the music of the Modern Devotion.
1. Nu laet ons singen, het is tyt à 2, strofe 1-3 (Beguinage Amsterdam, approx. 1600 AD)
2. O maiestas deica à 3 (Utrecht, approx. 1500)
3. Ave celestis regina à 2 (Utrecht)
4. Allen mijn troest mijn toeverlaat à 1 (Tongeren, approx. 1480 AD)
5. Ave maris stella à 2 (Beguinage Amsterdam, beginning of the 17th century)
6. Ave Maria / O suijver maecht à 2 (Beguinage Amsterdam)
7. Het viel een hemels dauwe à 2 (Soeterbeeck convent, Ravenstein, approx. 1500 AD)
8. Verbum caro factum est à 1 (Mariënpoel convent, Leiden, beginning of the 16th century)
9. Ons is gheboren nu ter tijt à 2 (Utrecht)
10. Ad festum leticie à 2 (Soeterbeeck)
11. Ihesu dulcis memoria / Ave Iesu rex gloriae à 2 (Beguinage Amsterdam)
12. Verbum Caro factum est à 3 (ms. King, approx. 1500)
13. Totus mundus sit iocundus à 2 (Utrecht)
14. Een kindekijn is ons gheboren / Die coninghen uut orienten à 1 (Utrecht)
15. Ihesum corde colite / Ons is gheboren (Beguinage Amsterdam)
16. Universalis ecclesia à 3 (Utrecht)
17. Iubilemus singuli à 3 (Utrecht)
18. In hoc festo blidelike / In Bethleem qui natus est (Beguinage Amsterdam)
19. Nu laet ons singen, het is tyt à 2, strofe 4-6 (Beguinage Amsterdam)
Trigon Ensemble: Margot Kalse, alto-mezzo and lead, Esther Kronenburg en Marijke Meerwijk, soprano
Recording: Sunday 16 December 2018, Huys Dever Lisse
Cappella Pratensis (photo: Hans Morren, October 2013)
B) Cappella Pratensis – Christmas concert ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ with beautiful works form the great musical culture of the province of Brabant and the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
A programme which reflects the great ‘Brabantse’ and ‘Bossche’ musical culture from the glorious past of the Duchy and the last half of the last century. The Christmas concert is characterized by two memorable events, which carry a very strong Brabants’ and mostly Bosch’ character: the 700 year existence of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady from 1318 AD and the 90th birthday of Maurice Pirenne (1928 – 2008). With the Brotherhood, founded in 1318 AD, Maria was often invoked and honoured in the Vespers and celebrations of praise. There are works by Pipelaere, choir master of Saint John’s Cathedral in 1499 AD, just like Pirenne five centuries later. There are also compositions by Clemens non Papa for the Brotherhood and by Jacob Obrecht, who worked in the Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom for years. Maurice Pirenne, priest, composer and organist is honoured by the performance of a number of choral pieces and some organ works.
Maurice Pirenne
01 Metanoia
02 Motet O magnum mysterium
Gregorian
03 Invatorium Deus in adjutorium
Maurice Pirenne
04 Psalmmotet Dextera Domini fecit virtutem
Albert de Klerk
05 Dans un grange champêtre
Flor Peeters
06 Maria die soude naer Bethlehem gaen
Matthaeus Pipelare | Gregorian
07 Magnificat met antifoon Tota pulchra es
Maurice Pirenne
08 Ego flos ecampi
09 Passagaclia
Matthaeus Pipelare
10 Motet Salve Regina
Jacob Obrecht
11 Benedicames
Jacob Clemens non Papa
12 Motet Ego flos campi
Cappella Pratensis conducted by Stratton Bull:
Stratton Bull | Andrew Hallock: superius | Lior Leibovici | Korneel Van Neste: altus
Peter de Laurentiis | Julian Podger: superius | Marc Busnel | Pieter Stas: bassus
Flanders Boys Choir conducted by Dieter Van Handenhove:
Kasper Stas | Giulinani Van Den Bergh | Ben Van Steenlandt | Vic Verhaeghen
Vic Wulgaert | Achiel De Smet | Mads Vereecke | Willem Gilles
Véronique van den Engh: organ
Cappella Pratensis conducted by Stratton Bull, with Flanders Boys Choir and organist Véronique van den Engh.
Recording: Saturday 15 December 2018, the Dutch Reformed Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
