Alkemie Early Music Ensemble

BFX: Chanticleer & Alkemie โ€“ย Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame

First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

French composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut was one of the leading minds of the Middle Ages. His Messe de Nostre Dame is one of the first multi-movement, large-scale notated compositions to exist in the Western canon and has been called the โ€œgenesis of modern musicโ€ (Los Angeles Times). This program features Machautโ€™s magnum opus […]

BFX: Alkemie โ€“ย Love to My Liking: the Trouvรจres of Northern France

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

In this concert, Alkemie performs 13th-century trouvรจre songs, dances, and motetsโ€”the majority of which have never before been recorded, and several of which were transcribed by the ensemble from their original manuscripts. Continuing the tradition of the troubadours, the trouvรจres of Northern France wrote some of the most captivating vocal music of the 13th century. […]

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