Christopher Festival | Huelgas Ensemble: Medieval voices

HUELGAS ENSEMBLE (Belgium)
Artistic Director and Conductor PAUL VAN NEVEL (Belgium)

An emotional time portal. That’s how you could call this performance where eight a cappella voices create an unearthly experience, where the mysterious, multilayered medieval world that tickles the imagination is brought to life.

For the first time at the Christopher Festival – the famous Huelgas Ensemble, led by the legendary Paul Van Nevel. For more than five decades, this collective has been forming our understanding of what early music should sound like – through his careful study of sources he reconstructs sounds and then conveys them to us with amazing precision and mastery.

Multi-award winners giving concerts at prestigious halls all over, from the Lincoln Center to Royal Albert Hall, the Huelgas Ensemble will be trying out the acoustics at our very own St Catherine’s Church. The programme audiences will be able to hear was inspired by The Dream of Poliphilo – one of the most enigmatic and aesthetically richest Renaissance texts. Each work in this programme is akin to a work of art, recreated to utmost precision yet performed with passion. According to Van Nevel, St Catherine’s Church is an ideal space for this kind of music. Not only for its acoustics and architecture, but also for its sense of total time transportation.

Come to this concert-dream and feel it for yourself!

Programme features N. Craen, J. Gallus, P. Sandrin and others