This summer, Bruges will once again be filled with sounds and music conceived centuries ago. Countless people – artists, copyists, listeners, collectors, patrons – have been moved by that abstract beauty, then and now, so that we may share in a collective listening experience today. Each of us will take something different from this music, pick up on different details and form our own memories of the concerts. And yet, there is something universal that reaches us through this time-honoured music. Something greater than ourselves.