Festival of Mediaeval and Renaissance Music Flores Musicae 2023

Raitknecht 1692 – music from the late 17th century from all over Europe

DOMEN MARINČIČ (Slovenia), baroque viola da gamba (J. Ch. Hoffmann, Leipzig, approx. 1740)
SAM CHAPMAN (UK), theorbo

Multi-instrumentalist Domen Marinčič is not only one of the most outstanding interpreters of old music in our country but also one of the greatest masters of viola da gamba and Baroque cello in Europe. In 1997, he won the first Bach-Abel competition in Köthen, Germany, and has since regularly performed and recorded as a soloist and with leading European ensembles for old music. In a duet with English theorbist Sam Chapman, he’ll prepare a music programme especially for the Flores Musicae Festival with music composed by various composers from all over Europe in the late 17th century such as Dietrich Buxtehude, John Blow and Marin Marais, as well as music by an unknown composer from Ljubljana dating back to 1692. He’ll play an original instrument made around 1740 in Leipzig by famous manufacturer Johann Christian Hoffman.