Modena ConsortConcert

Saturday, October 8, 2016

3:30 PM

Château de Nyon

Programme

Vox Dilecti Mei – Wingert in der Frühe

Tribute to Hans-Jürg Meier (*1964- 2015)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Vox dilecti mei (Motettorum liber IV ex Canticis canticorum, 1584)

Andres de Silva | Tota pulchra es Maria (Medici codex, 1518)

Marco Dall’Aquila | Recercare (Herwarth Lautenmanuskript)

Hans-Jürg Meier  |  Wingert in der frühe · I ort und zeit – gondola

Antoine Brumel | Sicut lilium inter spinas (Medici codex, 1518)

Heinrich Isaac | J’ay pris amours (Petrucci, Canti C, 1504)

Hans-Jürg Meier | Wingert in der frühe · II er besingt sie – caminada

Johannes Ghiselin | J’ay pris amours (Petrucci, Canti C, 1504)

Ludwig Senfl | Tota pulchra es, Prima pars: Tota pulchra es (München Mus. ms. 12)

Hans-Jürg Meier | Wingert in der frühe · III sie besingt ihn – caminada

Ludwig Senfl | Tota pulchra es, Secunda pars: Iam enim hiems Tota pulchra es, Tertia pars: Et vox turturis

Francesco Spinacino | J’ay pris amours (Intabulatura de lauto II, 1507)

Hans-Jürg Meier | wingert in der frühe · IV minne – hortus conclusus

Vincenzo Ruffo | Giovene donna (Madrigali I, 1552)

Antoine Brumel | Mater patris [et Filia] (Petrucci, Odhecaton, 1501)

Hans-Jürg Meier | wingert in der frühe · V wein – cielo

Hans-Jürg Meier | wingert in der frühe · VI siegel – fuoco

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Pulchra es amica mea

Josquin des Prez | Ave Maria

Andres de Silva | Tota pulchra es Maria

Marco Dall’Aquila | Recercare

Hans-Jürg Meier | wingert in der frühe · I ort und zeit – gondola

Antoine Brumel | Sicut lilium inter spinas

Heinrich Isaac | J’ay pris amours

Hans-Jürg Meier (1964-2015) | wingert in der frühe · II er besingt sie – caminada

Ludwig Senfl | Tota pulchra es, Prima pars: Tota pulchra es

Artists

The Modena Consort

Sarah van Cornewal | Hiroki Suzuki | Claudio Santambrogio | Boaz Berney | Renaissance traversos

Keren Motseri | voice

René Genis | lute

Hans Jürg Meier (1964-2015) | composer

The Modena Consort

The Modena Consort (4 renaissance flutes, voice and lute) was founded in 1998 in The Hague (The Netherlands) to perform Renaissance polyphony on period instruments. The consort performed at various venues and festivals in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany and Austria, and was invited to perform at international meetings dedicated to the Renaissance flute. Their last CD connects modern music to the Renaissance music with pieces from the Swiss composer Hans-Jürg Meier who died suddenly in November 2015. The two other discs are dedicated to the music at the court of Marguerite of Austria and to the Frottole – Songs from the courts of Renaissance. It explores the possibilities of the flute consort in music that has not yet appeared in this fashion.

The Israeli soprano Keren Motseri – first cello player before obtaining a Master’s degree from the Dutch National Opera Academy. Keren’s repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to the 21st century and covers both concert and opera practice. Her most notable concert performances were with the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging with conductors Richard Egarr and Jos van Veldhoven, the Residentie Orkest with Jaap van Zweden, the Asko/Schönberg-ensemble with Reinbert de Leeuw and Etienne Siebens, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic with Peter Eötvös and Musik Fabrik with Daniel Reuss. As a sought-after interpreter of contemporary music, Keren worked all over Europe with composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen and Michel van der Aa.

Hans-Jürg Meier (1964-2015) grew up in Rüschlikon on the shores of Lake Zürich in Switzerland. Amongst his achievements are the Marguerite de Reding award of the Swiss League of Musicians, his membership of the Swiss Institute of Rome and his work at the Spazio culturale of the Swiss Institute of Rome in Venice. Adaptations from architecture are becoming increasingly important in Hans-Jürg‘s compositions (since 1991). In both architecture and music the power of imagination is of fundamental importance.

Also, both deal with holistic shapes that unfold in time and / or in space. In an effort to render the sensual qualities of the materials of music (notes, intervals, sound textures) into a tangible experience, his works are out of necessity committed to the cooperation of nature, form and beauty.