Festival of Mediaeval and Renaissance Music Flores Musicae 2023

The Blind Brothers of Bruges

SOLLAZZO ENSEMBLE (France, Portugal, UK)
Marie Théoleyre, voice
Philip Meneses, vielle
Anna Danilevskaia, vielle and artistic dir.

The young band Sollazzo Ensemble is directed by Anne Danilevskaia, a French musician of Russian descent who has established herself as one of the leading ensembles for medieval and early Renaissance music ever since the very beginning of 2014. The winners of many awards thus perform in many of the world’s most significant venues and already have a large discography of albums receiving numerous rewards. In this programme, two vielles or fidulas, the predecessors of viola da gamba, accompanied by voice, perform fabulous Burgundy chansons from the 15th century. In the first part, the programme is dedicated to two blind vielle players, Jehan de Cordoval and Jehan Ferrandes, who came to the Burgundy court in 1433 and settled in Bruges, where they worked and fascinated the greatest musicians of their time, Guillaume de Dufay and Gilles Bincchois. In the second part, we’ll enter into the next generation and into the music world of Ferrandes’s sons Johannes and Carolus, who inherited both exceptional musical talents and blindness from their father, and the echo of their fame continued up to the early 16th century.

Concert in collaboration with the Dramsam Society and the Musica Cortese Festival.