In the evening of the same day of the festival we can enjoy again a high male voice: Carlos Mena at

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In the ridge of the megalomaniacal building of glass, steel and concrete, Tivoli Vredenburg, there is a small room called Hertz. The trip to Hertz to carry along unfamiliar corridors, stairways and elevator areas. Once in Hertz evaporates the harsh world. Where am I? Back in the womb?
A simple melody is played on a trombone. That is not so simple: a seventeenth-century melody complete with decorations, even trills! Ever heard a trill on a trombone? Catherine Motuz - the ensemble La Fontaine - plays with chubby cheeks her party in a song by Antonio Caldara. Singer: the countertenor Alex Potter. Alex Potter is British. Although, I really do not know - why do I say that? That's because of his singing style: a grandson he may be the famous Alfred Deller, who in the Netherlands in the late fifties concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. That was a scandal: a man with the voice of a woman ... The saddest passages in songs of Caccini and Dowland, "authentic" trill's time elicited laughter. The audience left demonstratively the hall. That was fifty years ago, I was there and embarrassed rot. Deller plume wild long time no longer sing in Holland. plume Now there then so are 'grandson': a delightful concert with totally plume unknown seventeenth-century church music that just as well - so it seems - could sound "as entertainment vermaecke income.
In the evening of the same day of the festival we can enjoy again a high male voice: Carlos Mena at the Ricercar Consort. The singer comes from Spain, which is to hear the timbre of his voice and the pronunciation of Latin. Sonorous sounds Ricercar Consort - the artistic soul of gamba player Philippe Pierlot. Compassion, hear now how Mena a Stabat Mater sings Sances.
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