Recorded in the exceptional acoustics of AMUZ (Flanders Festival Antwerp), Sollazzo Ensemble immerses the listener in the vibrant musical heritage of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a period when European culture—much like flamboyant Gothic architecture—embraced colour, intensity, and exuberance. Spanning more than a century, from the early Italian Trecento to the dawn of the Burgundian era, the programme traces how polyphony spread ‘like wildfire’ across Europe: between north and south, sacred and secular spheres, court and chapel.

Motets, chansons, madrigals, dances, and sacred works by Landini, Ciconia, Du Fay, Binchois, and their contemporaries illustrate an ever‑evolving repertoire in which devotion and passion, intellect and splendour coexist. Expanded for this production to as many as twenty musicians, Sollazzo Ensemble presents this music in a manner reminiscent of princely banquets and ceremonial settings. Rather than treating the late Middle Ages as a distant past, the recording invites listeners to experience these sounds as part of a living, bustling musical world.

This production was initiated by the Alamire Foundation as part of the celebrations marking 600 years of Leuven University. The CD is available through the Passacaille webshop and on all major streaming platforms.