Severall Friends (Mary Springfels, bowed instruments; Mark Rimple, lute & voice; Christa Patton, harp, winds & bagpipes; Sian Ricketts, recorders, doucaine & voice) presents a concert illuminating the rich musical traditions from the end of the Gothic era and the rise of the Renaissance.
The ensemble members – all experts in medieval performance – perform beautiful and highly complex chansons of the late 14th century ars subtilior and limpid French chansons that also became popular in Italy in the early fifteenth century.
With works by, among others, Johannes Ciconia, Trebor, Johannes Senleches, Solage, Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Dufay, and Gilles Binchois, rousing dance music from medieval Florence and finely wrought instrumental arrangements from the Faenza codex and the Buxheim Organ book.
