JANUA [Residency] Cité de la Voix Vézelay
From 05 April 2024 to 07 March 2024/ France / Vézelay
Creative residency
Every door has two sides (...) That's why I, the gatekeeper of the heavenly court, look both east and west".
Janus, the two-faced god of Ovid's Fasti
Janua explores the unique, brief and relatively unknown period of the Council of Florence in 1439. Combining the evocative voices of the French ensemble Irini with an ensemble of medieval instruments, trumpets and trombones, this project sheds light on the major historical event that was the Council's unsuccessful attempt to negotiate union with the Eastern Churches and save Constantinople, which instead went up in flames in 1453, leaving traces that still resonate today, more than half a millennium later.
Janua (door in Latin) looks at East and West through the eyes of Dufay, a direct witness to these events: few know the motets he composed between Greece and Italy, reflected in the polyphony of contemporary Byzantine composers: on the shores of the Mediterranean, the meeting point of different civilisations destined to dialogue.
Every door has two sides (...) That's why I, the gatekeeper of the heavenly court, look both east and west".
Janus, the two-faced god of Ovid's Fasti
Janua explores the unique, brief and relatively unknown period of the Council of Florence in 1439. Combining the evocative voices of the French ensemble Irini with an ensemble of medieval instruments, trumpets and trombones, this project sheds light on the major historical event that was the Council's unsuccessful attempt to negotiate union with the Eastern Churches and save Constantinople, which instead went up in flames in 1453, leaving traces that still resonate today, more than half a millennium later.
Janua (door in Latin) looks at East and West through the eyes of Dufay, a direct witness to these events: few know the motets he composed between Greece and Italy, reflected in the polyphony of contemporary Byzantine composers: on the shores of the Mediterranean, the meeting point of different civilisations destined to dialogue.
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