In a story by the Turkish poet and writer Nazim Hikmet, a certain doctor Littman is staring at a heart in a jar. He tries to imagine the amorous life of the owner of the heart, Madame Tchabai, and starts to hum some love songs. Jean-Luc Fafchamps set this bizarre daydream to music and added his own favorite songs to a cycle for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano.

During the winter months, Het Collectief has been invited to present its repertoire on various stages in Belgium and the Netherlands.
From our CD recording Transfigurations, we selected for Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, among others, the magnificent Transfigured Night by Arnold Schönberg.

The Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen (°1952) became famous with music that has come to be categorized as 'new simplicity'. Always looking for the simplest musical structures, Abrahamsen fell under the spell of J.S. Bach's 'Fourteen canons' in the early 1990s.