Het Lam Gods

"«Het Lam Gods» (2005) for string quartet is the 1st work the composer wrote about the famous triptych «Het Lam Gods» (The Mystical Lamb) by Flemish painters Hubert and Jan van Eyck, exhibited nowadays at the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.

The Triptych, painted in 1432, is made up of 24 different panels, twenty of which deal with religious themes. In her work, Sophie Lacaze musically evokes the static, solemn and inspired atmospheres, suggested by the panel of the interior part of the triptych: upper panels – Adam and Eve, Angles singers and musicians, John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin, God, Son or Father; then those of the lower part – the pilgrims, hermits, knights of Christ and just judges, and finally the Mystical Lamb."