Ubi sunt mulieres
24 November 2024/ Belgium / Antwerp
Woman has inspired thinkers, poets and creators for thousands of years with tenderness and charm, beauty and dedication, fragility and sensuality. The vocal quartet Contre le Temps turn their kaleidoscope on the Middle Ages during their concert in AMUZ, where Mary is enthroned in glory as the virgin, mother and love incarnate. Countless composers sang the praises of her profound relationship with her son and the fortitude with which she bore pain and sorrow.
Mary is clothed in the finest robes of sound, in music from the Winchester Troparium, Las Huelgas Codex, Cyprus Manuscript and Oxford Codex: key sources for vocal repertoire from the 11th to 15th century. Work by Guillaume Du Fay – the man who heralded the Renaissance – and Hildegard von Bingen, herself one of the most acclaimed women in music history, complete this dazzling tableau.
Mary is clothed in the finest robes of sound, in music from the Winchester Troparium, Las Huelgas Codex, Cyprus Manuscript and Oxford Codex: key sources for vocal repertoire from the 11th to 15th century. Work by Guillaume Du Fay – the man who heralded the Renaissance – and Hildegard von Bingen, herself one of the most acclaimed women in music history, complete this dazzling tableau.
