Live-Stream Concert: The landscape of the polyphonists – the world of the Franco-Flemish School 1400 - 1600

Returning to perform with my friends in the Huelgas Ensemble!

The concert will take place without an audience at AMUZ, Antwerp.
You are warmly invited to watch the concert via live stream.

Please click on this link: https://youtu.be/e4IVGCoWCxs

The live stream can be watched until 3rd April 2021, 22.00.

In the summer of 2018 Paul Van Nevel’s book “Het landschap van de Polyfonisten – De wereld van de Franco-Flamands” was released. In his book Van Nevel traces the hypothesis that the melancholic and imitative style of Franco-Flemish composers was shaped by the character of the landscapes, which they would have experienced in their childhood (stillness, a safe environment, melancholia). Together with the photographer Luk Van Eeckhout, Paul Van Nevel spent over twenty years journeying through the Franco-Flemish scenery to produce a fascinating and substantial work with no fewer than 168 magnificent photos.

In this concert the audience is presented with this hypothesis head-on: for each of the thirteen works performed the landscapes of each composer’s childhood will be projected for all to see. Listeners will be swept away to another Franco-Flemish world by a total of twenty-five photographs of landscape and pictures of Franco-Flemish cathedrals, whilst the Huelgas Ensemble performs works by Antoine Busnois, Nicolas Gombert, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez and Pierre de Manchicourt, to name but a few. Audience members will experience the interplay between landscape and music in the most arrestingly intimate way.