Fortune Infortune - Music for Margaret of Austria (excerpts)
Fortune infortune - Music for Margaret of Austria
Seldom Sene & Daniel Elgersma, countertenor
Excerpts from the premiere of the programme
9 August 2018 - MA Festival Bruges
Music by Pierre de la Rue, Loyset Compère, Josquin Desprez and others.
Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) was a fervent patron of music and the arts. After enduring many misfortunes during her youth, she became governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and attracted the finest humanists, poets and artists of the time to the court in Mechelen.
In this programme, countertenor Daniel Elgersma and recorder quintet Seldom Sene present chansons and motets found in one of Margaret's songbooks (B-Br MS 228) and five-part settings from a set of part books copied in the workshop of the court scribe Petrus Alamire (A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 Mus).
Programme and diminutions: María Martínez Ayerza
Special thanks to the MA Festival, Bruges
Video: Geoffrey De Decker / Open Image
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