Codex Caioni - Chronicles of a wedding day
- from: 12.07.2008
- to: 02.12.2008
- In: Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, then tour in France and Romania
When Gypsy musicians discover Venetian Baroque...
agenda
12 July, Saint-Guilhem-le-désert Festival
15 July, Summer in the Great Garden, Joinville
17 August, International Festival of Sacred Music of the Abbaye of Sylvanès
22 August, Festival Sinfonia in Périgord
25 August, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu
12 October, Lasi (Romania)
14 October, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
16 October, Bucharest (Romania)
24 November, La Comète, SN Châlons-en-Champagne
26 November, AMIA, Strasbourg
2 December, salle Gaveau, in Paris
Practical
On tour from July to December 2008 (see program)
350 year-old manuscript would arouse. Leaving it up to the musicians to improvise, he adopted an abbreviated approach to having his "Codex Caioni" record the motets of Monteverdi, Schütz or Gallus as well as the Transylvanian danses that he accompanied, both during Mass and for popular festivities.
In taking up the manuscript, Jean-Christophe Frisch, faithful to his Roving Baroque, shows us again that living traditions, such as these of the Carpathian mountains, enable us to understand the real meaning of a saraband, or of a bergamasque.
He has grouped 4 French and Romanian singers, a young taraf and 2 dancers from Transylvania, grouped around a basso continuo in the "Codex Caioni" musical show, which - at a time when Romania is joining the new Europe - bears testimony to the cultural exchanges and religious tolerance that already characterized Transylvania.
A Franco-Romanian co-production supported by Culturesfrance, the Fondation Orange, Fondation BNP Paribas, Institut Français de Bucharest, the French Embassy in Romania, the French Cultural Center of Cluj, Sibiu 2007, DRAC IDF…
- Updated: 02.12.2008
