Capilla Flamenca, a guest always warmly appreciated at Laus Polyphoniae, offers in this concert a serene and well-balanced whole of polyphonous and Gregorian sounds with Pierre de La Rue’s Missa Ave Maria as a guideline. This late work of the Burgundian court composer refers not only textually, but also musically to the Gregorian antiphon Ave Maria which is annually sung at Annunciation Day. The story of the angel Gabriel who announces to Mary that she is the one chosen to give birth to the Saviour was put to music by de la Rue in a moving way. Concurrently the composer manages to play along very creatively with the depth of the ideas in the texts. In short: the polyphonous language of the early 16th century merges here in a sublime way with the type of Gregorian that was then current, transmitted by the Antifonarium Tsgrooten and other sources.

Performers
Marnix De Cat, countertenor | Tore Denys, tenor | Lieven Termont, baritone | Dirk Snellings, bass & artistic direction