June 2023

November 2023

26.11.23

Église de la Madeleine Paris

Messe Solenelle pour deux orgues - Louis Vierne

Credo - Puccini

Benedictus - Gounod

Olivier Perrin, Grandes orgues

Gavin Roberts, orgue de choeur

John Padley, conductor

Olwen Lintern Smyth, soprano

Bastien Girard, Bariton

Laurens Wyns, tenor

Vox Amicorum choir

July 2023

23.07.23

Basilique de Vézelay - Messiah Haendel (Highlights) -Gloria Vivaldi

22.07.2023

Vault-de-Lugny - église Saint-Germain

May 2023

Pentecost 2023

28.05.2023

ROME - Festival de musica sacra

San Paolo fuori le mura - Messiah Haendel (Highlights)

November 2022

PARIS - dimanche le 06.11.22 Église de la Madeleine

FAURÉ  - Requiem

MENDELSSOHN - Ave Maria

Olwen Lintern-Smyth, soprano

Laurens Wyns, tenor

Gavin Roberts, organ

John Padley, conductor

Vox Amicorum, choir

July 2022

Bourgogn

BOURGOGNE - Basilique de Vézelay

Bach- Fauré - Jacobs - Allegri - Vottoria

Octobre 2021

PARIS - dimanche le 24.10.21 Église de la Madeleine

Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem

Anna Carbonera, soprano

Laurens Wyns, bariton

Vox Amicorum, choeur

Juillet 2021

VÉZELAY - Basilique de la Madeleine

Bach - Suite no 1 - Katelijn Van Kerckhoven, violoncelle

Gjeilo - Britten - Byrd - Lauridssen

Choeur Vox Amicorum

Chef de choeur, Marc van den Borre

PARIS - Dimanche 25 octobre 2020 - église de la Madeleine

Requiem Allemand J.Brahms -

Vox Amicorum + Voces UK 

John Padley, direction

Gavin Roberts, organ

Anne carbonerar, soprano

Romain Dayez, Bariton

Tournée de concerts en Bourgogne 2020

Vox Amicorum, chœur

Marc Van den Borre, chef de choeur

Jesu dulcis memoria

Tallis, Vittoria, Allegri, Purcell, Byrd, Lassus

16.7.2020 - 20.30 h  SURGY

Église Saint-Martin  

Ensemble Phrasis - Roanne - Piazzola rencontre Tallis.

17.7.2020 - 20.30 h  VÉZELAY       

Basilique Sainte-Marie Madeleine

18.7.2020 - 17.30 h  SAINT-PÈRE   

Église Notre Dame  

19.7.2020 – 17.00 h AVALLON         

Entrée Collégiale Saint-Lazare

                                                                       

Su 24th November 2019 - Paris -  La Madeleine - Messiah HAENDEL (highlights)

Vox Amicorum and British singers 

John Padley, conductor - Gavin Roberts, organ - Olwen Lintern-Smyth, Soprano - Romain Dayez, Base - Laurens Wyns, tenor

Sa 3 August 2019 - Night of the Museum, Antwerp - Museum Plantin en Moretus, Prentenkabinet - from 20 h - till 23 h

Mario Sarrechia, harpsichord (Virginaal) - Patrick Denencker, flute - Music from the 17th Century - Suzanne van Solt and others

Fri 7 June 2019 - Venice St Georges Anglican church

Su 9 June 2019 - Basilica dei Frari

Hans Van Kerckhoven, violin- Vox Amicorum, choir - Marc Van den Borre, conductor - An Lauwereins, soprano

Olwen Lintern-Smyth, soprano - Dick Van Daele, tenor - Koen Vereertbrugghen, tenor

 

ALLEGRI, Miserere Mei

BIBER, Pasacaglia - violin solo

BYRD, Ave Verum Corpus

TALLIS, If ye love me

VITTORIA - Jesu, dulcis memoria

PALESTRINA, Sicut Servus

BACH, Ciaccona from partita II BWV1004 in D minor - violin

VITTORIA, O Magnum Mysterium

ALLEGRI, Adoremus in aeternam

ROSSINI, O Salutaris Hostia

DE BOECK, O Beata Mater

BACH, Adagio from Sonata 1 BWV 1001 G-minor  violin solo

RHEINBERGER, Abendlied

 

The music selected for this concert from Allegri over Biber, Byrd, da Vittoria, Palestrina, Tallis, Bach to Rheinberger and the Belgian Composer August De Boeck, have this in common that they are built around an harmonic pattern that is repeated as the basis of a wide range of variations (see Chaconne; also common in Elizabethan England as ‘a division on a Grounde’). During the seventeenth century, Claudio Monteverdi, who was maestro di capella at the basilica of San Marco in the Republic of Venice, composed many pieces using ostinato patterns in his operas and sacred works. Another well-known ostinato-based pieces is Ravel's Boléro, where a few notes have been arranged and come back. The ostinato-based compositions are from all times. Henry Purcell became famous for his skilful deployment of ground bass patterns. His most famous ostinato is the descending chromatic ground bass that underpins the aria "When I am laid in earth" ("Dido's Lament") at the end of his opera Dido and Aeneas. Miserere mei ("Have mercy on me, O God") is a setting of Psalm 50 by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri. Composed around 1638 Miserere was the last and most famous of twelve falsobordone settings used at the Sistine Chapel since 1514. At some point, it became forbidden to transcribe the music and it was allowed to be performed only at those particular services at the Sistine Chapel, thus adding to the mystery surrounding it.

2018

11 May  2018 -  20 h : VENICE, Italy : St George's Anglican church, Campo San Vio, Gran Canale.

PERGOLESI, Stabat Mater - VIVALDI Gloria

Marc Van den Borre, Conductor - Owlen Turchetta, soprano - Domiique Vansande, mezzo - Margherita Gianola, organ

Vivaldi (1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers.Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi was employed. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for preferment. However, the Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died, in poverty, less than a year later.

Vivaldi was only 25 when he started working at the orphanage. Over the next thirty years he composed most of his major works while working there. There were four similar institutions in Venice; their purpose was to give shelter and education to children who were abandoned or orphaned, or whose families could not support them. They were financed by funds provided by the Republic. The boys learned a trade and had to leave when they reached the age of fifteen. The girls received a musical education, and the most talented among them stayed and became members of the Ospedale's renowned orchestra and choir.

13 May 2018 - 11.30 h : VENICE, Italy : San Polo church

Saint-Saens - Poulenc - Gounod - Allegri

June 2018 - Private concert Ukkel - Klassiek : Rameau, Lully, Haendel, Strauss, Massenet - Musica Profundis, orkest - Hans Van Kerckhoven viool solo, Alex Van Beveren, hobo -  Jazz : Jan Moeyaert -  Frans chanson : Eniko Szilagyi.

Concert tour Summer 2018

15 July 2018 -16 h: PARIS : Église St Eugène Ste Cécile, 4 rue du Conservatoire 75009 Paris

ADORAMUS TE - concert de chant religieux - Allegri, Poulenc,  Lassus,  Dufay, Palestrina, Purcell, Byrd, da Vittora

choeur, Vox Amicorum - chef de choeur, John Padley (UK)

17 July 20.30 h - VEZELAY - Basilique de Vézelay

ADORAMUS TE - chants religieux renaissance (15ème et 16ème siècle)

18 July 16 h - DIJON - Centre Hospitalier La Chartreuse

BONJOUR MON COEUR - concerts d'été

Allegri, Encina, Arbeau, Arcadelt, Tourdillions, Lassus, Dufay, Tallis

19 July 16 h - BEAUNE - Hospices Dieu

BONJOUR MON COEUR - concerts d'été

Allegri, Encina, Arbeau, Arcadelt, Tourdillions, Lassus, Dufay, Tallis

17 October 2018 - Het leven van Nicolaes Cleynaert, 16de-eeuwse theoloog, humanist, pedagoog en talenliefhebber die de Christelijke en Islamietische godsienst dichter bij mekaar wou brengen door een vertaling van de Koran naar het Latijn.

28 October 2018, 16 h - Paris, Madeleine Church, France

Requiem DURUFLÉ - Vox Amicorum, choir - John Padley, conductor - Gavin Roberts, organ - Olwen Lintern-Smyth, soprano - Romain Dayez, Bariton

Duruflé (1902 – 1986) was a French composer, organist, and teacher. highly critical of his own compositions. He published only a handful of works and often continued to edit and change pieces after publication. His Requiem was published in 1948 by the French firm Durand. It had been commissioned six years earlier under the collaborationist Vichy regime, but Duruflé was still working on it in 1944 when the regime collapsed and in fact did not complete it until the year of publication.At the time of commission, Duruflé was working on an organ suite using themes from Gregorian chants. He incorporated his sketches for that work into the Requiem, which uses numerous themes from the Gregorian "Mass for the Dead. The composer dedicated the Requiem to the memory of his father. In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame. Duruflé and Vierne remained lifelong friends, and Duruflé was at Vierne's side acting as assistant when Vierne died at the console of the Notre-Dame organ on 2 June 1937.

December 2018 - Lodewijk De Vocht en tijdgenoten - Orde van de prince Plantiniana.

Liesbeth Devos, sopraan - Hans Van Kerckhoven, viool - Jan Moeyaert, piano

7 June 2019 - Venice St Georges Anglican church

9 June 2019 - Basilica dei Frari

Hans Van Kerckhoven, violin- Vox Amicorum, choir - Marc Van den Borre, conductor - An Lauwereins, soprano

Olwen Lintern-Smyth, soprano - Dick Van Daele, tenor - Koen Vereertbrugghen, tenor

 

ALLEGRI, Miserere Mei

BIBER, Pasacaglia - violin solo

BYRD, Ave Verum Corpus

TALLIS, If ye love me

VITTORIA - Jesu, dulcis memoria

PALESTRINA, Sicut Servus

BACH, Ciaccona from partita II BWV1004 in D minor - violin

VITTORIA, O Magnum Mysterium

ALLEGRI, Adoremus in aeternam

ROSSINI, O Salutaris Hostia

DE BOECK, O Beata Mater

BACH, Adagio from Sonata 1 BWV 1001 G-minor  violin solo

RHEINBERGER, Abendlied

 

The music pieces that have been selected for this concert from Allegri over Biber, Byrd, da Vittoria, Palestrina, Tallis, Bach to Rheinberger and the Belgian Composer August De Boeck, have this in common that they are built around an harmonic pattern that is repeated as the basis of a wide range of variations (see Chaconne; also common in Elizabethan England as ‘a division on a Grounde’). During the seventeenth century, Claudio Monteverdi, who was maestro di capella at the basilica of San Marco in the Republic of Venice, composed many pieces using ostinato patterns in his operas and sacred works. Another well-known ostinato-based pieces is Ravel's Boléro, where a few notes have been arranged and come back. The ostinato-based compositions are from all times. Henry Purcell became famous for his skilful deployment of ground bass patterns. His most famous ostinato is the descending chromatic ground bass that underpins the aria "When I am laid in earth" ("Dido's Lament") at the end of his opera Dido and Aeneas. Miserere mei ("Have mercy on me, O God") is a setting of Psalm 50 by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri. Composed around 1638 Miserere was the last and most famous of twelve falsobordone settings used at the Sistine Chapel since 1514. At some point, it became forbidden to transcribe the music and it was allowed to be performed only at those particular services at the Sistine Chapel, thus adding to the mystery surrounding it.

Sa 3 August 2019 - Museumnacht, Antwerp - Museum Plantin en Moretus, Prentenkabinet - 20 u

Mario Sarrechia, harpsichord (Virginaal) - Patrick Denencker, flute - Music from the 17th Century - Suzanne van Solt and others

Su 24th November 2019 - Paris -  La Madeleine - Messiah Haendel - Vox Amicorum and British singers - John Padley, conductor - Gavin Roberts, organ - Olwen Lintern-Smyth, Soprano - Romain Dayez, Base -