The Sword and the Lily

Fount & Origin

Works by Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Brumel, Johannes Regis, Johannes Martini and anonymous composers of the 15th century

Music for Rogier van der Weyden’s Last Judgement

In 1443, Chancellor Nicolas Rolin commissioned the greatest painter of his time to create a Last Judgement, a sublime object of penitence for the sick of his Hôtel-Dieu. Just before the Beaune altarpiece is taken away for several years of extensive restoration, the young English singers of Fount & Origin imagine the music for it, between hell and paradise, between the sword and the lily.

CAST

Fount & Origin
James Tomlinson, conductor

1h15 without intermission