Come visit the Middle Ages with Mandragore. Visitors! lasts between thirty and seventy five minutes and takes the listener back in time. The audience learns about the Middle Ages through its music, in different languages including Latin, Spanish, Oc, Oïl, and Middle English, and in different styles (dances, love songs and sacred music...). The musicians introduce the instruments used and the audience participates in games, dances and songs.

 This concert is particularly appropriate for outdoor performance and aims audiences of all ages. While was designed for four musicians, a version using three can be presented. A sound system is required which we can provide.

Program Sample:

-Laudata sempre sia (Laudario di Firenze, Italy, XIIIth c.)
-Cuncti simus (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, Spain, XIVth c.)
-Edi beo thu, hevene quene (England, XVth c.)
-Saltarello (Italy, XIVth c.)
-La reverdie du chevalier et de sa mie (France, XIIIth c.)
-A l'entrada del tens clar (France, XIIth c.)
-Alte clamat Epicurus (Carmina Burana, Germany, XIIth c.)
-Ay Santa Maria (Cantigas de Santa Maria, Spain, XIIIth c.)
-L'autrier jost una sebissa (France, XIIth c.)
-Ad mortem festinamus (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, Spain, XIVth c.)
-Sire Cuens, j'ai viélé (Colin Muset, XIIth c.)
-La rosa enflorece (Spain, XIVth c.)

-Rahelica baila  (traditionnel séfarade)

Musicians: 3 or 4

Length: 30 minutes to 1:30

Amplification:

4 micros voices

2 micros strings

2 micros percussion  

Instruments used:

recorders, krumhorn, harmonium, hurdy-gurdy, cittern, tambour de Béarn, percussions (darbuka, surdo, rek, pandeiro, etc.)

This concert presents several songs from the Carmina Burana (Germany, XIIth c.) and the Laudario di Cortona (Italy, XIIIth c.). The production's five musicians play a wide variety of instruments, presented in an even wider variety of combinations, and as ever in the Mandragore's programs, the voice has a important role to play.  The music in Barbarossa is interwoven with an actor's retelling of the tortuous story of Frederick the 1rst.

This concert lasts about 90 minutes, including an intermission. It is particularly suited for concert halls, churches or any space designed for musical performance. No amplification is required for this concert but amplification may be used if necessary.

Program Sample:

1. Sia laudato San Francesco (Laudario di Cortona, Italie, XIIIth c.)
2. Procurans odium (Carmina Burana, Germany, XIIth c.)
3. Hodie aperuit (Hildegard von Bingen, Germany, XIIth c.)
4. Barbarossa (trad. icelandic, A. Wells-Oberegger, F. Taillefer)
5. Alte clamat Epicurus (Carmina Burana, Germany, XIIth c.)
6. Haybatik (trad. arabo-andalusian)
7. Sic mea fata (Carmina Burana, Germany, XIIth c.)
8. Alle, psallite cum, luya (Adam de la Halle, France, XIIIth c.)
9. Dominus dixit (Manuscrit de Laon, c. 930)

Musicians: 5 plus one comedian

Length: 90 min (with intermission)

Amplification (if needed or desired):

6 micros voices

3 micros strings

2 micros percussion  

Instruments used:

recorders, traverso, bansuri, harmonium, hurdy-gurdy, cittern, oud, bouzouki, tambour de Béarn, percussions (darbuka, surdo, rek, pandeiro, etc.)

Program Sample:

- A l'entrada del tens clar (France, XIIth c.)
- Stella splendens (LVM, XIVth c.)
- O peregrino (A. Wells-Oberegger)
- Tengo dos amores (Spain, XIVth c.)
- Los set gotx (LVM, XIVth c.)
- Entre Av'e Eva (CSM 60, XIIIth c.)
- Maravillosos e piadosos (CSM 139/383, XIIIth c.)
- Cuncti simus concanentes (LVM, XIVth c.)
- Ave virgo virginum (France, XIIIth c.)
- Santa Maria amar (CSM 7, XIIIth c.)
- Pange melos lacrimosum (France, XIIIth c.)
- Ronds de Loudéac (traditional Brittany)
- Imperaynz (LVM, XIVth c.)
- Miracle! (mandragorian incantation)
- Lama bada yata sana (traditional Andalusian)

Musicians: 5

Amplification (if needed or desired):

4 micros voices

3 micros strings

1 micro double basse

2 micro percussion  

Instruments used:

Recorders, crummorn, raupschpfeife, bulgarian bagpipe, double bass, hurdy-gurdy, oud, lute, bouzouki, percussions (darbuka, zarb, kanjera, rek, etc.)