The ensemble’s main goal is professional and historically accurate music performance. Musicians use faithful copies of medieval musical instruments such as tenor and alto vielles, gittern, frame drum, hurdy-gurdy and medieval recorder and perform in outfits based on the ones depicted in Medieval iconography. Apart from early music performance, members of the ensemble are passionate Medieval reenactors.
The ensemble’s repertoire amounts to over a dozen folk and religious European historical compositions (vocal – instrumental pieces – always sung in their respective original languages, instrumental pieces and dances)
Their performances are often coupled with professional Medieval dance courses for the audience.
vielle tenorowa, śpiew
śpiew, vielle altowa
flety proste, szałamaja, śpiew
Lira korbowa, śpiew
bęben
Gitterna, śpiew
Live Medieval music performance with instruments’ presentation and a lecture about their history, origin and the contents of performed compositions.
Piotr Kasiłowski – arrangementPaulina Andrzejak – frame drumAdrianna Ciemińska – vielleKarina Raźnikiewicz – voiceLiubou Tsudzila – medieval recorderRafał Klej – gitternPaweł Tomaszewski – hurdy-gurdy
guest cast – Sebastian Sierka, Karol Matusiak, Kacper Karabinproduced by – CINEMAGICrecordings, mix & mastering – Oskar Tracz
The album consists of 10 compositions from the Middle Ages, dating from the 12th to the 16th century. These include works by anonymous composers whose names remain unknown, as well as those remembered by the history of music to this day. The melodies originate from various regions of Europe — France, Italy, Sweden — and also include a traditional Sephardic song.
The album is dominated by vocal-instrumental forms, with some dances also featured. These are pieces that could have been performed at royal courts, in bourgeois homes, or in taverns — secular in nature and often with playful or bawdy lyrics. Their simple texture and form gain color through the rich instrumentation provided by the ensemble The Medievals. Thanks to their involvement in historical reenactments, their interpretations of early music are marked by professionalism and authentic sound.
The musicians play faithful replicas of period instruments — knee viols, gitterns, frame drums, hurdy-gurdy, and medieval recorders — which transport listeners into the sound world of centuries past.
