FELDSPIEL
Music from 16th-century Battlegrounds
A nuanced program that extends the genre of sixteenth-century war music beyond the traditional military march and incorporates shades of propoganda, patriotism, celebration and mourning.
Feldspiel
60 minutes
3 musicians
MARC LEWON – cittern, lute, voice
PHILIPP WINGEIER – Renaissance drum
HOLLY SCARBOROUGH – Renaissance traverso & direction
Zweigulden’s ecstatic interpretation of this victorious German Easter hymn is based on an event in 1474 in Alsace, when the melody was sung with a new text to celebrate the overthrow and beheading of a tyrannical Burgundian governor, Pierre de Hagenbach.
The text of this song mentions looming threats from all sides: Germany, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swabian League. Our melancholic arrangement for flute and lute gives voice to the soldier’s quiet doubts and traumas inflicted by war.
