Floris De Rycker: “Polyphony is profoundly emotional”

→Lutenist Floris De Rycker explores Renaissance repertoire with a constant desire to make the emotions of the past resonate today.

Floris De Rycker: “Polyphony is profoundly emotional”

Lutenist Floris De Rycker champions an informed yet intuitive approach to Renaissance music, whether performing solo or with his ensemble Ratas del viejo Mundo, which brings together early polyphony, oral traditions, and popular songs, even opening up to choreography in a show by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui… We meet a musician for whom Renaissance repertoire is, above all, about conveying emotion.

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