Performers
- François Lazarevitch French bagpipes in their historical and regional variety: boha (bagpipes from Gascony region), Renaissance bagpipes, Baroque musette, grande bourbonnaise (type of medieval bagpipes from Bourbonnais region), cabrette (bagpipes from Auvergne region)
- Andrzej Ferenc narrator
Programme
Middle Ages (12th–13th centuries):
Marcabru Pastorella L’autre ièr josta una sebissa (The Day Before by the Hedge)
Adam de la Halle Robin, par l’ame ten pere from Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (The Play of Robin and Marion)
Anonimous Belle Doette – La Quinte Estampie Real
Renaissance (16th–17th centuries) :
Suite of Renaissance Dances: Une Jeune Fillette (allemande) · Allemande (ed. Pierre Phalese) · Claude Gervaise Branle simple · Branle du petit homme (ed. Pierre Phalese)
Schiarazula Marazula – Ungaresca (ed. Pierre Phalese)
Michael Praetorius Les Passepiedz de Bretaigne from Terpsichore collection
Baroque (17th–18th centuries):
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Prélude – Passepied from the collection Divertissements de campagne (Country Entertainment)
Anonimous À l’ombre d’un ormeau (In the Shadow of an Elm Tree)
Charles-Emmanuel Borjon de Scellery Suite of country branles in G, choice from Traité de la Musette (Treatise of Musette)
Nicolas Chédeville La Divinité des Bois (The Divinity of the Woods) from Les Déffis ou l’Étude Amusante (Challenges, Or the Amusing Study), Op. 9
Popular Music of Central France and Auvergne (19th–21st centuries):
Andantino (noted by George Sand) · Bourrée of Aurora Sand · En traversant les plain’s et les montagnes (Crossing planes and mountains, bourrée)
Le cabretaïre et le loup (Tale of the Bagpiper and the Wolf): Bourrée Ai vist lo loup (I have seen a wolf) · Suite de marches nuptiales de Bouscatel (Suite of the Wedding Marches after Antoine Bouscatel)
La polka du Quartier
Concert description
Since the Middle Ages, the luscious intense sound of bagpipes has graced important ceremonies and encouraged people to have fun in lively rhythms. This is the oldest complex musical instrument, which for centuries in Europe has not been inferior in popularity to almost any other. Its construction is simple: it consists primarily of an air-filled container – a bag made of animal skin (sometimes the entire body), and a set of pipes. Different regions and historical periods have developed its distinct variants, as can be seen in the type of ornamentation, materials used, number of pipes and the way it is played.
Their distinctive nasal sound, however, is unmistakable. So is the disposition of the voices – the highest and busiest leads the melody, while the lower one or ones hold the bourdon, that is, a long standing sound, which supports the harmony. Bagpipes probably wouldn’t have survived to this day if they weren’t so versatile. Among other things, they can be heard telling medieval legends of love and intoning the tuneful melodies of French dances popular in the Renaissance and Baroque.
– Karolina Dąbek (pisanezesluchu.pl)