Het Retorisch Kwartet, featuring Andrea Hayter, will perform a St Matthew Passion with Blokfluitensemble Praetorius Leiden.
Meder’s St Matthew Passion, which predates the setting by Bach, is one of a small number of his works that survive.
After performing at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in October, Het Retorisch Kwartet will return in December with an expanded programme for an afternoon concert.
The concert includes an introduction to the van Eyck exhibition by Friso Lammertse.
Concert De weg naar van Eyck
14:00-15:00 - Sunday, 9 December 2012
Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam
Entrance: museum entrance + exhibition supplement + € 3,50
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Het Retorisch Kwartet will perform three early-renaissance pieces at the opening of the van Eyck exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in Rotterdam.
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Het Retorisch Kwartet will perform a selection of unaccompanied four-part arrangement of songs as part of an open-house event in Schiebroek - the Huiskamerroute Schiebroek-Hillegersberg.
13:00 and 15:00, Sunday, 16 September 2012
Address: Familie van Niekerk, Kastanjesingel 28, 3053 HM Rotterdam (Schiebroek) - map.
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Het Retorisch Kwartet will give two short afternoon performances at the Rotterdams Odd Fellowhuis as part of Open Monumentendag Rotterdam, on Saturday, 8 September, at around 13:30 and 15:00.
Address: Rotterdams Odd Fellowhuis, Van Vollenhovenstraat 35 (map)
Programme - songs by John Dowland (1563-1626):
Het Retorisch Kwartet and Blokfluitensemble Praetorius Leiden will perform at the Open Recorder Days:
The programme is a selection from the works performed in Rotterdam and Utrecht:
Het Retorisch Kwartet, featuring Robert Andriessen, performing works by Johannes Ockeghem at the Lutherse Kerk in Utrecht on 19 May 2012.
Het Retorisch Kwartet, featuring Robert Andriessen, will perform a joint programme with Blokfluitensemble Praetorius Leiden, featuring works by Johannes Ockeghem.
The programme combines sacred and secular works - polyphony and chansons, by Ockeghem and his contemporaries:
Het Retorisch Kwartet will perform at the opening of the Secret Garden exhibition on 5 April 2012 at Tent CBK, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam.
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Hortus Conclusus is a motet by Spanish renaissance composer Rodrigo de Ceballos (ca 1530-1581)
The motet is set to a text from the Song of Songs:
Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa mea, hortus conclusus et fons signatus. Aperi mihi, o soror mea, amica mea, columba mea, immaculata mea. Surge propera amica mea, et veni.
Veni, speciosa mea, ostende mihi faciem tuam. Favus distilans labia tua, mel et lac sub lingua tua. Veni sponsa mea, veni coronaberis.
Translation:
A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. Arise my love and come.
Come, my fair one, let me see your face. Your lips distil nectar, honey and milk are under your tongue. Come, my bride, come and you shall be crowned.