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The Galway Early Music Festival May 8 - 11, 2014

Music on board the royal Swedish Flagship Kronan (Lost 1676)

Friday, May 9, 2014 20:00 St Nicholas Collegiate Church

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Music on Board the royal Swedish Flagship Kronan (Lost 1676) Ensemble Mare Balticum

Stockholm, in the harbour. Concert on board Kronan in the Admiral’s exclusive cabin Johann Vierdank (ca. 1605-1646)

Sonata from ”Ander Theil…

Capricci, Canzoni & Sonaten, Rostock 1641

___________________________________________________ Hans Hake

Ballet/ Courant/ Saraband from ”Ander Theil Newer Pavanen, Sonaten, Balaletten, Brandlen….1654”

Gustav Düben

”Werldenes Wandring/ afmålad genom en Siöfart” from ”Odae sveticae”, lyrics by

(1628-1690)

Samuel Columbus; 1687

Johann Rudolf Ahlenius Mascherada (1625-1673) ___________________________________________________ After the Kronan went down Anonymous

”Fågelsången”( Mourning ballad),

(lyrics by Cajsa S. Lund 1989)

___________________________________________________ Regimental Prayer on board Kronan Anonymous, Lund-ms.

Psalm 305

Johann Schop

“Meine Seele erhebt den Herren“ (Magnificat)

(ca.1590-1667)

Daniel Friderici

Lobt Gott Ihr Christen alle

(1584-1636)

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In the officers’ cabin Pierre Dubut

Courante “Elisandravisan”

(father or son? 17th c.)

„Wer die Weisheit ihm erkoren“ from „Dritte Theil der Arien oder Melodeyen… zum Singen und Spielen“ Königsberg, 1640

Heinrich Albert (1604-1651)

Hans Hake Gavott

Brandle / Gaij/ Amener/ Duble/ Montiranda/ from ”Ander Theil Newer Pavanen, Sonaten,Balletten, Brandlen….1654”

______________________________________________________ Work music at sea Trad (ms. Finspång)

Daaldantz/ Poolsche dantz/ Proportion / La marine

________________________________________________________ On land: A day of rejoicing!

Gustav Düben

Aria von der Lundchen Battallia (1676)

Thomas Baltzar )

A Prelude

(ca 1630-1663

Mogens Pedersøn

Loffwer Gud I fromme Christne

(ca 1583-1623)

Ensemble Mare Balticum Ute Goedecke: vocal, baroque violin, recorder, shawm Per Mattsson: baroque violin Tommy Johansson: lute, baroque guitar, percussion instruments Dario Losciale: viola da gamba Stefan Wikström: natural trumpet, sackbut Fredrik Persson: shawm, curtal Guest Musician Johan Folker: percussion instruments Narrators: Cajsa S. Lund, John Kenny

The Swedish Flagship Kronan, the Royal Crown, was in its time one of the world’s largest warships. She capsized, exploded and sank off the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea in 1676. Of the 842 men in the crew only about 40 were saved.

The wreck was located in the 1980s and since then is excavated each summer season by underwater archaeologists.

It soon became evident that Kronan is an extremely important find – a Pompeii of the Baltic Sea. With its abundant equipment, its large company and its hierarchical social structure the ship was a society in miniature.

Among the more than 30,000 objects that have been found so far are several musical instruments and other sound tools, intact or in fragmented form stringed instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments are represented. There are, of course, many musical instruments preserved from the 17th century. What is special in this case is that the instruments from Kronan are part of an archaeological find-complex that can, moreover, be exactly dated.

The musical instruments excavated from the Kronan wreck form the basis of a concert programme that also includes commentaries.Who performed music on board, for whom was the music intended, when and what did they play? The repertoire that the Ensemble Mare Balticum will perform is music that was in vogue in Sweden during the second half of the 17th century.The sources of most of the music are preserved in Swedish libraries and archives.

Music and commentaries are accompanied by a slideshow that includes presentday documentary photographs as well as paintings and drawings from the 17th century.

Ensemble Mare Balticum (EMB) is a Swedish group of professional musicians that encompasses various branches of early music, from the late Iron Age up to the 1700th century and primarily from the countries around the Baltic Sea.The core of EMB consists of six musicians.When their programmes demand it, selected freelance musicians are added to their number.

Within EMB the musicians also form separate constellations, for example a sub group focused on early medieval music, and a sub group, Heimdal’s Bourduner that play instruments and sound tools reconstructed on the basis of archaeological finds from the very late Nordic Iron Age. EMB – with its competence which is unique in Sweden, its uncommon constellation and creative work process – is a great asset to public concert activities as well as to programmes for children and youth.

EMB was initiated by music archaeologist Cajsa S. Lund in 1989 on the basis of underwater-archaeological finds of musical instruments on the wreck of the Royal Swedish flagship Kronan that went down in the Baltic Sea – Mare Balticum − in 1676.

EMB is Sweden’s only fulltime ensemble for early music. The ensemble is based in Kristianstad in Scania (South Sweden) and is administrated by the regional music institution Musik i Syd.

Ensemble Mare Balticum’s concert has been made possible by the European Music Archaeology Project (EMAP), supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union. www.emaproject.eu

AD*BC CORACLE May 8, 8pm, St Nicholas Church

ENSEMBLE MARE BALTICUM May 9, 8pm, St Nicholas Church

NORBERT RODENKIRCHEN

May 9, 1pm, Chapel of the Poor Clares

LUDI SCAENICI

ANCIENT MUSIC IRELAND

May 10, 8pm, St Nicholas Church

LUCERNARIUM May 11, 4pm, Augustinian Church

SIMON O’DWYER JOHN KENNY PETER HOLMES

May 9, pm, Mechanics Institute MOONFISH THEATRE May 10, 12pm, Kelly’s Bar

CAJSA LUND / ÅKE EGEVAD May 10, 3pm, Mechanics Institute ECSTATIC CULT OF CIONYSUS May 11, 2:30pm, Mechanics Institute

FREE APPS Carolan’s Lost Tune - Galway Ghost Hunt Musical Tour of Medieval Galway Throughout Festival and Beyond!

LEGION IRELAND May 10, 2-4pm, Streets & Museum

TICKET BOOKING Online: www.galwayearlymusic.com From 1 May: Charlie Byrnes Bookshop At door of concerts FESTIVAL TICKET: €56 / €45 concession (includes all concerts)