Listen to the interview Kees van Mechelen made for RKK Radio (in Dutch) on Welle of Mercy, for their program called Zinspelen. You can either go to the RKK website or listen directly to the audio stream.

I am currently working on a new piece, for Marin Gester’s Le Parlement de Musique, an excellent early music ensemble from Strassbourg. Like my electronic interludes Ponts de ténèbres (composed for the Lamentations of Orlandus Lassus), this new work goes as a companion piece with a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, this time the Leçons de ténèbres by François Couperin. The Leçons de ténèbres became standard church repertoire during Holy Week. Couperin only left us three of those leçons, every single one a marvel of ornamented vocal art for one or two women’s voices plus continuo. All of French high society thronged to these musical services to be beguiled by candlelight. My new work is going to be performed in the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht, that commissioned this composition.