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Here you find our brand new performing programs for the season 2007-2008! Please click on the title of your choice for further information while you can enjoy an excerpt of the program. If you want to download a printable flyer, please go to the downloads section.
La Cause est AmerMedieval Love Poems from Japan and the Low Countries
Der Teufel had das Spiel erdacht (The Devil created the game)Music to go with Medieval & Renaissance Playing Cards
Guillaume & Guillaume chansons from Guillaume de Machaut and Guillaume Dufay
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A
suite of five medieval Japanese love poems form the core of this unique program.
Set to music for Quadrivium by Belgian composer Janpieter Biesemans, the pieces
examine different states of love: the joy of newly discovered love; parting at
dawn; absence of the beloved; doubting faithfulness; and rueful grief. Although
Biesemans has scored the suite for western medieval instruments, his
compositions capture the delicate yet intense character of Japanese traditional
music. In this program Quadrivium pairs these compositions with Late-Medieval
Netherlandish art songs which echo similar sentiments.
Three
sets of musical playing cards were the inspiration for this delightful program.
Both the so called "Flötner" and "Rumpoldt" decks of cards
have pieces of Renaissance polyphony printed on their backs. The third set of
cards comes from a Japanese card game based on the poems called "waka"
– each beautifully illustrated card shows one half of a poem out of a set of
one hundred. The players must try to be the first to put the two halves
together. Five of these poems have been set to hauntingly beautiful music for
Quadrivium by the Flemish composer, Janpieter Biesemans. 
Quadrivium
explores the old ways of ringing in the new year!