Renaissance Voices

Paul van Nevel shares the melancholia and earthy tastes of the Renaissance and has been performing the music of the period for many years. He combs libraries for forgotten compositions and insists on reading the original scores, finding nuances which guide his interpretations. But he is also insatiably curious about the concrete realities of Renaissance life. He takes US back to a world in which time moved more slowly, although lives were shorter, and the dead kept watch over the living, where d