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The Galway Early Music Festival May 8 - 11, 2014 Hamelin Anno 1284 On the Trail of the Pied Piper

Norbert Rodenkirchen medieval transverse flutes Wolodymyr Smishkewych text recitations

Friday, May 9, 2014, 13:00 Chapel of the Poor Clares, Nuns Island

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Hamelin Anno 1284 On the Trail of the Pied Piper

Norbert Rodenkirchen medieval transverse flutes Wolodymyr Smishkewych Text Recitations De voghelin untphat des lechten meyien scin /Od zielonego gaju (trad., old slavic)

WIZLAW III.VON RÜGEN (1265/68-1325)

TEXT I: The longing tune of the Ungelarte Der unghelarte hat ghemachet eyne senende wise (Leich) TEXT II: After the longing lament I need to sing Nach der senenden claghe In dem ungelarten

ANONYMOUS

TEXT III: from a Pastorale, 14th ct.

Lai de la Pastourelle

ANONYMOUS

I warne dich, vil junger man

WIZLAW III.VON RÜGEN

TEXT IV: from the chronicles of Lueneburg, 15th c.

Ich han gedacht (Rondellus)

WIZLAW III.VON RÜGEN

Graff peters große tagewyse

PETER VON AHRBERG (c. 1350-1386)

List du in der minne dro

WIZLAW III.VON RÜGEN

TEXT V: The Rat Catcher of Korneuburg Myn trurichlichiz klagen (Minneleich)

MEISTER ALEXANDER (mid/end 13. Jh)

TEXT VI: Brothers Grimm, 19th ct. fairy tale of the Pied Piper, part 1 Improvisation on „Under der linden”

WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE

TEXT VII: Brothers Grimm, fairy tale of the Pied Piper, part 2 Pora maty zyto (improvisation)

trad., old slavic

Prueffwyse / dance of Kupala (trad., old slavic)

FRAUENLOB (1250/60-1318) / REGENBOGEN (?- c. 1320)

The figure of the mysterious flautist who according to legend enticed the children away from the town of Hamelin with his music in the year 1284 has retained its fascination up to the present day. What sort of music could the Pied Piper have played?

Recent research suggests that this figure was most probably a flute-playing medieval recruitment officer (in the Middle Ages those agents were also called locators), commissioned by the aristocracy from the territories south of the Baltic coast to attract young families to migrate to these areas. Early documents tell us that he succeeded in mobilising a large crowd of young people in Hamelin in the summer of 1284.

Names like Hamel, Hamler and Hamelnikow can be found in Polish phonebooks still today.

Norbert Rodenkirchen, an internationally renowned specialist in medieval flute music, has long been fascinated by the figure of the Pied Piper and was inspired to embark on a search for musical sources with close regional and temporal connections. He struck lucky with the melodies of Prince Wizlaw III of Ruegen and his teacher, the so-called “Ungelahrte” (“the Untaught”), augmented by ancient Slavonic dances from Northern Poland and the tunes of German minnesingers of the late 13th century.

On the basis of his extensive experience in medieval improvisation, Norbert Rodenkirchen has utilised these musical models to weave a series of enchanting melodies in the style of medieval travelling musicians which could quite conceivably have been played by the Pied Piper himself.

In 2012 the Christophorus label released Norbert Rodenkirchen’s CD “Hameln Anno 1284 – Medieval music on the trail of the Pied Piper” which received tremendous public attention internationally. The renowned German magazine Fono Forum wrote about the CD: Flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen immersed deeply into the world of the Middle Ages. (...) The music unfolds an almost bewitching spell.

Norbert Rodenkirchen, who studied flute and Baroque traverso with Hans Martin Mueller and Günther Hoeller at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Köln, has been the flute player of Sequentia since 1996 and also works regularly with the French ensemble Dialogos directed by Katarina Livljanic.With both ensembles he has been invited to numerous international festivals. He is also much in demand as a composer of music for theater and film as well as a producer for CD projects, most of them in coproduction with the WDR/ West German Radio. From 2003 to 2011 Norbert Rodenkirchen was artistic director of the concert series „Schnuetgen Konzerte – Musik des Mittelalters“ in the medieval museum of Cologne where he founded Candens Lilium, a project ensemble specialized on medieval music from the Rhineland. Additionally he has given workshops on medieval instrumental improvisation at the Mozarteum Salzburg, at the festivals of Vancouver and Ambronay as well as at the Musikhochschule Köln, the conservatories of Lyon and Liege. In 2012 he released his third own CD Hameln Anno 1284 / Medieval flute music on the trail of the Pied Piper on the label Christophorus/ note1. www.norbertrodenkirchen.de

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