Incidences Consort
The consort, what is it?
The term "consort" refers to a family of instruments that play together.
This practice, inherited from the Renaissance, brings together instruments of the same family, of different sizes and ranges, in order to deploy the full richness of the sound.
Thus, there are consorts of viols da gamba, cornets and sackbuts… and of course recorders!
As you might have guessed, this is what defines us!
When different families of instruments come together, it is called a "broken consort". Our consort also readily lends itself to this practice, thus expanding its palette of sounds.
Consort The Incidences
"pocket-sized ensemble"
"A range of flutes of all sizes and music from all eras...yes, it's a recorder consort!"
This "pocket-sized ensemble" showcases the consort formation of recorders as well as the diversity of its repertoire.
From medieval and Renaissance songs depicting courtly love to contemporary music of the 20th and 21st centuries, the recorder appears as a versatile, multifaceted instrument.
UMAMI
"In a humble cottage, the tea leaves raked up after the storm."
"Umami", the fifth taste, savory in Japanese, here signifies an invitation to travel, in a musical and timeless Japan.
Legends, folklore, myths, contemporary dreams and traditional songs blend together in this program conceived as an ode to a dreamlike Japan populated by deities and ancient nursery rhymes.
On the program are emblematic works by 20th-century Japanese composers, but also a new creation, Ama no Iwatokakure , composed by Yumi Augustine for the ensemble.
Muses of our woods
" First, the awakening of nature and first loves. A bird trills, a flower blooms in response. Life is in full swing and love takes many detours."
The woods resonate with stories that intersect and intertwine.
Time passes, and so the first glimmers of light come and go. For the caresses of Dawn always return to rest upon a few flowers still asleep.
Is it because it's made of wood, or is it the diversity of its sizes, its bird-like mouthpiece, or its sweet timbre, flauto dolce as the Italians so aptly put it? In its vast repertoire, the recorder regularly embodies and symbolizes nature. Flowers, birds, seasons, nymphs, and trees, but also storms, the sea, and rain, are invited to speak through the notes.
Les Incidences presents one of the many faces of the recorder through Muses of our woods , a program conceived as an initiatory journey retracing the imagination of artists who, across the centuries, marvel at nature.
