Alena Dantcheva and Francesca Cassinari sopranos
Gianluca Ferrarini tenor
Susanne Ansorg and Teodoro Baù medieval fiddles
Michele Pasotti lute, director
We welcome from Italy the renowned ensemble La Fonte Musica in a thrilling programme of music from their latest Diapason d’or-winning recording. The same magazine also selected it among 'the top 100 albums all music lovers need to know'.
Accompanied by projections of mysterious and fantastical images from medieval manuscripts.
Supported by The Behrens Foundation
The album paints a Middle Ages together alive and imbued with a veracity … it also expresses in an equally eloquent way our contemporary tastes… The young Italian group [has] a force that echoes that of the pioneer interpreters of medieval music Diapason
Prom Ticket/RVS (on door only) £5
| Programme | ||
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| Jacopo da Bologna fl.1340–c.1386 |
Sì chome al canto della bella Iguana | |
| Paolo da Firenze c.1355–after 1436 |
Non più infelice |
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| Jacopo da Bologna | Fenice fu’ |
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| Bartolino da Padova 1365–1405 |
Strinçe la man (instrumental) |
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| Philippe de Vitry fl. first half of the 14th century |
In nova fert/Garrit gallus/Neuma |
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| Guillaume de Machaut c.1300–1377 |
Phyton, le mervilleus serpent |
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| Solage fl. end of the 14th century |
Calextone | |
| Anonymous Codex Faenza 117 |
Constantia (instrumental) | |
| Antonio Zacara da Teramo 1350/60–after 1413 |
Je suy navvrés/Gnaff'a le guagnele |
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| I N T E R V A L | ||
| Niccolò da Perugia fl. second half of the 14th century |
Qual perseguita dal suo servo Dafne |
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| Filippotto da Caserta fl. second half of the 14th century |
En attendant |
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| Jacopo da Bologna | Non al suo amante più Diana piacque |
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| Anonymous Codex Faenza 117 |
Viver ne puis (instrumental) |
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| Matteo da Perugia dafl. c.1400–1416 |
Già da rete d'amor |
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| Francesco Landini da Firenze c.1325–1397 |
Sì dolce non sonò col lir' Orfeo |
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We would like to thank our Sponsors and all of our Festival Friends.
Thanks also to all our funders
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Patron: Dame Emma Kirkby
Photographs of BREMF events by Robert Piwko