Ramadan Calendar 25

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES — medieval ballads of the lover’s malady is a programme of monophonic songs of the 12th and 13th centuries. It offers a cross-section of medieval love poetry as it could have been heard in diverse cultural establishments from across  continental Europe, oscillating between aristocratic and clerical, courtly and urban.

It features poems in diverse languages of varying poetic and musical  forms. Medieval vocal pieces are paired with newly reconstructed instrumental music which draws on the melodic material contained in sung pieces,
thereby providing the listener with a commentary and an opportunity for extended reflection as well  as offering a bed of aural contextualisation for the modal structures not so commonly heard in our time.

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Text and concept: Jasmina Črnčič