Please note: due to the Covid-19 measures, this tour has been cancelled. We are working on an alternative which we hope to publish soon. Subscribe to our newsletter (in Dutch) to stay up to date!
Please note: due to the Covid-19 measures this tour is cancelled. In September 2022 the Netherlands Chamber Choir will launch a video and podcast series in which Paul Van Nevel delves deeper into the world of the hexachord and leads the Netherlands Chamber Choir in music by Di Lasso, Palestrina, Brumel and others! View this page for more information.
Music by Orlando di Lasso, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antoine Brumel, Josquin Desprez, Costanzo Festa, Stefano Felis, Robert de Fevin en Francesco Soriano
Netherlands Chamber Choir (Nederlands Kamerkoor)
Paul Van Nevel conductor
Paul Van Nevel, master of Early Music, has been a much sought-after guest conductor with the Nederlands Kamerkoor for years, and with good reason. In 2022 he will present a programme based entirely on one of the forerunners of the modern Western scale: the hexachord ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la, which formed the basis of countless compositions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Throughout the Renaissance, music teaching and vocal education were also founded on the hexachord. With DoReMiFaSol Paul Van Nevel demonstrates the limitlessness of limitation: the programme consists exclusively of works in which the hexachord features.
With the imposing Missa ut re mi fa sol la by Antoine Brumel as the basis, Van Nevel has put together a programme in which the Nederlands Kamerkoor examines chansons, motets, fantasias and medieval solfeggio exercises that would trip up even Boulez. Spectators will no doubt return home with a mammoth hexachord earworm, but one thing is certain: with dizzying rhythmic motifs, hexachord mutations and voice changes, there is plenty of variety in these six notes.
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Wed. 19 January 2022 20:00
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Sat. 22 January 2022 20:30