Ensemble Lucidarium / Avery Gosfield
The way to Jerusalem: Crusade songs
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Recorded live at Gasthuis Leeuwenbergh Utrecht, 1 September 2021
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About this concert
Medieval poets wrote numerous texts in honour of the Crusades and their Crusaders, often with anti-Judaic or anti-Islamic rhetoric. Avery Gosfield and her Ensemble Lucidarium juxtapose this well-known but problematic crusade repertoire with Hebrew piyyutim that give voice to the victims of these massacres, and instrumental dances that transcend any language barrier.
Programme
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Anonymous
Jerusalem mirabilis
(from: Paris, BN fonds latin 1139 ‘St. Martial Codex’) -
Guillaume IX de Poitiers
Elohim al domi le-dami
1071-1126 -
Folquet de Marseille / arr. Avery Gosfield
Improvised dance based on ‘Tan M’abbelis L’Amoros Pensamens’
ca. 1150/60-1231 -
Thibaut de Champagne
Seignor Sachiez
1201-1253 -
Bernart de Ventadorn
En Consirier et en Esmai
ca. 1130/40-ca.1190-1200 -
Traditional
Lemi Evkeh
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Walther von der Vogelweide?
Der Reichston
Nû alrêst lebe ich mir werdeca. 1170-ca. 1230 -
Anonymous
Matsor ba’atha ha’ir
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Guiot de Provins
Mont sont a meschief
(from: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana MS Vat. Ebr. 322)?-after 1208 -
Thibaut de Champagne
Robert Veez de Perron
Chevalier mult estes guariz -
Traditional
Evel a’orror
Musicians
- Lior Leibovici, Carla Nahadi Babelegoto, Enrico Fink voice
- Luca Piccioni voice, lute, gittern
- Élodie Poirier vielle
- Massimiliano Dragoni percussion, hammered dulcimer
- Avery Gosfield recorder, pipe, tabor and musical direction
About the performers
Working between historical sources and the oral tradition, Lucidarium is dedicated to a multicultural approach to early music, bringing the voices of the ‘others’: those who lived in the shadows of the great institutions. Lucidarium’s work is currently divided between different projects: Ars Italica, which explores different aspects of Italy’s culture through its music and poetry, and Ars Hebraicae, dedicated to a reconstruction of the soundscape of the Jews in Renaissance Europe.