Blondel (Classical Music)

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    St Nicholas Church, Church Street.

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What makes a song leap across national boundaries and language barriers, slip from the secular to the ecclesiastic, and remain at the top of the charts for more than 70 years? We don’t have the formula, but we know why these pieces wedged themselves into the cultural background of medieval Europe. The music is fabulous.

 

Cover Story tracks connections between people, places, texts and music. It follows the evolution of popular late medieval melodies across Europe as they are copied, rearranged and repurposed over years, and even decades.

 

Blondel bring you catchy dances and lyrical chansons, ingenious rounds and dazzling divisions, performed on shawms, bagpipes and recorders.