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| Music of the Cracow Academy – works written by
composers associated with the Cracow /Kraków/ university: Nicolaus de Radom, Johannes de
Jaszona, Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz, found in polish manuscripts from the early 15th
century ( Kras 52, Kj 2464, and assorted sources). Contains interesting examples of early
polish polyphony in Latin and vernacular. |
| Medieval Marian Songs of Poland , Germany, France and
Spain from 13th to 16th century – works from the Krasiński
and Raczyński family manuscript, lays of the minnesingers, motets from the Codex
Montpellier Cantigas the Santa Maria of Alfonso el Sabio; the programme presents Polish
music against the background of similar songs from the other countries. |
| The Glogauer Liederbuch , compiled in Silesia ca.
1480, is one of the most important 15th century collection of music , and
without a doubt the most valuable manuscript of its kind in Poland. It owes its
significance to the extensive and diverse repertoire of, primarily three-voice, vocal and
instrumental works of a religious or secular nature. Notable composers whose works are
found in the songbook include Dufay, Ockeghem, Busnois, and Petrus de Grudencz. The date
and place of its compilation make it the common cultural property of Bohemia, Germany and
Poland. |
| Music from the time of the Cruisades , a musical and
poetic chronicle of the Crusades written by prominent artists and statesmen like King
Richard the Lion-Hearted and Thibaut de Champagne . Vivid and diverse in melodic structure
and variety of instruments used (reconstructed after 12th and 13th
century Spain sculptures and paintings), it owes much of its appeal to the rhythms and
expressiveness derived from the music of the East. |
| May and Nightingales – love songs
of the troubadours, the first artistic love lyrics, based on a poetry, whose intricacy has
rarely been surpassed since. Symbols of love such as May, the song of the nightingale ,
and flowers were stock elements of this poetry and it is around these themes that the
concert is arranged.. Our intention was to let the poets speaks directly to the audience
of their love and sorrow, their amorous rapture and dejection; to sing the beauty of the
ladies of their hearts and the beauty of Nature, of how their passion was stirred by May
flowers in bloom and the trill of songbirds. The works collected in the programme were
written by some of the greatest love poets of the 12th through the 15th
centuries: Vaqueiras, Lescurel, Ventadorn, Machaut and Wolkenstein.
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| Music from the Time of Boccaccio – a programme
based on the court music of the Ars Nova period ( Landini , Machaut) . This was the period
in which composers of secular music made high requirements of the performance-singer. In
terms of figuration works from the Italian school of the 14th century may be
compared with the most difficult Baroque arias; the French school brought a characteristic
melodiousness and a new harmony to polyphonic music. The programme includes forms typical
for Ars Nova : madrigals, caccias, virelais and ballatas . Performance of such
compositions requires excellent technique and attainment with musicians on the part of the
singer. |
| Cantigas de Santa Maria - 13th century
songs by King Alfonso X El Sabio |
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