Summerwinds Festival: Into The Winds: Vor den Toren der Städte
Adrien Reboisson shawms, recorders
Marion le Moal shawms, recorders
Rémi Lécorché buisine, natural trumpet, trombone, recorders
Julián Rincón shawms, recorders
Laurent Sauron percussion
Into The Winds, this is early music with the energy and groove of a big band. The specialists in historical wind music claim for themselves: through instrumental mastery, stage presence, joy of playing, and through their ensemble sound, which is noble and elevated, as impressive as it is foreign. Visually, the instruments are also striking, shawms and bombards, the precursors of the oboe, as well as trombones, trumpets, the nearly 2 m long buisine, a natural trumpet, recorders, various historical percussion instruments.
The quintet, which has emerged in recent years in international competitions and stages, transports its audience with the program "Vor den Toren der Städte" into the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. What do the cities of the 15th century sound like, the places of great political, social, and cultural upheavals, the centers of power where art always also functioned as an instrument of exercising power? In all of Europe, princes became patrons who engaged artists for representation and propaganda purposes. To musically immerse oneself in the atmosphere of these cities and courts, in civil wars and celebration of triumphs, in princely weddings and assassinations, in carnival and funerals, invites Into The Winds.
The time travel goes to Paris, torn by the civil wars between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians; to Bruges for the wedding of Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal; to Dijon, shaken by the news of the war death of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy, known for his aggressive military policy, heroic courage, and dangerous arrogance; to Florence, where under the enlightened rule of Lorenzo il Magnifico, regarded as the ideal prince and embodiment of the Renaissance patron (Michelangelo, Botticelli, Ficino), arts, philosophy, sciences, and carnival thrive; to Granada, when the united forces of the crowns of Aragon and Castile recapture it from the Muslim rulers; to London under Henry VIII, who was cruel and brutal and a passionate music listener and composer; finally to Lyon, celebrating the triumphant entry of Francis I, King of France and one of the defining Renaissance rulers and patrons (Leonardo da Vinci), on his way to victory at Marignano.
From the Alta Capella of Burgundy to the English Broken Consort: the multi-instrumentalists of Into The Winds play in changing constellations. From the repertoire of French and Italian minnesingers to the pieces of the Arabic-Andalusian ensembles that were active in Spain before the Reconquista, "Vor den Toren der Städte" offers a kaleidoscope of unique sounds and little-known music of the European Renaissance.
Vor den Toren der Städte
Paris 1407 | Assassination of Louis I of Orléans by John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
Anonymous: Fanfare Tuba Gallicalis
Baude Cordier: Je suis celuy qui veul toudis servir
Nicole Grenon: La plus belle figure
Johannes Le Grant: Entre vous nouveaux mariés
Bruges 1430 | Marriage of Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal
Gilles Binchois: Amours et souvenirs
Gilles Binchois: Te deum
Guillaume Dufay: Navré je suis
Guillaume Dufay: Se la face ay pale
Dijon 1477 | Death of Charles the Bold and the end of the Burgundian dream
Buxheimer Orgelbuch & Robert Morton: Le Souvenir
Antoine Busnois: Quand ce viendra
Antoine Busnois: Anthoni usque limina
Robert Morton: Pues serviçio vos desplaze
Florence 1490 | Carnival under Lorenzo il Magnifico
Anonymous: Rostiboli Gioso
Anonymous: Trionfo delle tre parche
Bartolomeo Florentino: Canto di pastori bacchiatori di bassette
Pietrequin Bonnel: Adieu Florens la yolye
Anonymous: Alle stamegne donne
Granada 1492 | The fall of Granada and the end of Muslim rule in Spain
Ibn Zuhr: Ayyuha s-saql' ilay-ka l-mustaka & Hal’ tusta adu
Luys de Narvaez: Pasebase el roy moro
Juan del Encina: Triste España sin ventura & Tan buen ganadico
Franco Alonso: La Tricotea
Juan del Encina: Rodrigo Martinez & Hoy Commamos y bebamos
London 1513 | Celebration of Henry VIII's victory over the Scots
King Henry VIII: Helas Madame
King Henry VIII: Past Time with good company
William Cornysh: Hey Robin
Heinrich Isaac: La mi la sol
Anonymous: England, be glad
William Cornysh: Trolly lolly
Lyon 1515 | Triumphal entry of Francis I of France on his way to Marignano
Jacques Moderne, Pierre Attaingnant & Pierre Phalèse:
Suite de danses
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
