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Recordare: Vocal Music by Dufay, Ockeghem, and Others

In Renaissance times, the heart was thought to be home to our memory. Giving something back to the heart—re-cor-dare—therefore meant to remember a beloved person, to mourn their death, or to honor them while they lived.



Michele Pasotti and his ensemble La fonte musica, regular guests at the Pierre Boulez Saal, present a selection of moving musical tributes from the 14th to the 16th centuries, in which composers honored their predecessors or colleagues—including Jean Richafort’s Requiem for Josquin, who himself created a musical memento for Johannes Ockeghem in his Nymphes des bois.


PROGRAM

  • Anonymus - Apollinis eclipsatur
  • F. Andrieu - Armes, Amours / O Flour des flours
  • Jacopo da Bologna - Oselletto Selvaggio
  • Francesco Landini - Sì dolce non sonò col lir’ Orfeo
  • Guillaume Dufay - Lamentatio Sanctae Matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae
  • Johannes Ockeghem - Mors tu as navré / Miserere
  • Guillaume Dufay - Ave regina caelorum
  • Antoine Busnoys - In hydraulis
  • Josquin des Prez - Nymphes de boisCostanzo Festa - Quis dabit oculis
  • Jean Richafort - Introitus (aus dem Requiem in memoriam Josquin des Prez)
  • Nicolas Gombert - Musae Jovis

Additional information
Participating artists
Michele Pasotti
La fonte musica
Alena Dantcheva
Francesca Cassinari
Elena Carzaniga
Massimo Altieri
Gianluca Ferrarini
Mauro Borgioni
Giulia Genini
Claire McIntyre
Ermes Giussani
Efix Puleo
Teodoro Baù
Dates
April 2026
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