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Chat with Ensemble Pampinea (CH)

Artists’ message to visitors: You are invited to enjoy a concert of medieval music composed by Guillaume de Machaut and his contemporaries. As the audience, you will not only be a spectator to watch how Fortuna treats us throughout the concert, but you will participate yourself to decide our fate – a giant dice will be thrown to determine whether Fortuna will spare us from pain and despair by deciding the order of the musical pieces. With plenty of instruments, such as the organetto, the medieval recorders, pipe and tabor, double recorder, and medieval viela, we hope to bring you a beautiful concert and a great game!

The mission statement of the ensemble: The medieval Ensemble Pampinea’s main objective is to highlight the beauty of the medieval repertoire through instrumental expressivity and elasticity. They believe that stories can be told with no text, but with tone colour, articulation, phrasing, expression, etc., and with gesture and communication of the instrumentalists. Ensemble Pampinea considers the awareness of latest research a responsibility of every musician of the early repertoire; moreover, they count making informed performance approachable for a modern public of all ages and backgrounds their mission. The ensemble’s work is advanced by the knowledge and research of Fiona Kizzie Lee.

Recording: Radio Slovenija