Festival de Rocamadour - Et in arcadia ego Collegium Vocale Gent

Even in the most beautiful of landscapes, or right here, nothing and no-one escapes death. During the Renaissance, composers couldn't get enough of Arcadia, the book-poem in which Jacopo Sannazaro created an ephemeral pastoral world full of idyllic enchantment. Luca Marenzio, Giaches de Wert, Sigismondo d?India or Claudio Monteverdi: in their bittersweet madrigals, sometimes tinged with eroticism, let the pastoral and the idyllic rub shoulders with grace. Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent play with the unique synthesis of vocal art and rhetoric, the music dancing on the border between superior polyphony and marvelous simplicity. Cast Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe conductor Miriam Allan soprano I Barbora Kabatková soprano II Mélodie Ruvio alto Benedict Hymas tenore I Tore Tom Denys tenore II Jimmy Holliday bass Sophie Gent violin I Sonoko Asabuki violin II Ageet Zweistra cello Jonas Nordberg lute Maude Gratton harpsichord Lambert Colson cornet à bouquin Bart Vroomen trombone