Joel Frederiksen and Ensemble Phoenix München - A program of the Budapest Spring Festival
19:30
Concert Hall
Requiem for a Pink Moon
An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake
Nick Drake: Road
Requiem aeternam (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Pink Moon
Nick Drake: Horn
John Dowland: His golden locks, verses 1 & 2 (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Place to be
John Dowland: His golden locks, verse 3 (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Michael Cavendish: Wand’ring in this place (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Which will
John Dowland: Rest awhile, you cruel cares (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Rider on the wheel
John Dowland: Time stands still (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Time has told me
Ocean (Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Hanging on a star
Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten sail (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Horn (reprise in F)
Requiem in F (Horn) (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: Voice from the mountain
Nick Drake: Northern sky
Nick Drake: Harvest breed
John Dowland: Come, heavy sleep (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Nick Drake: From the morning
Requiem II (arr. Joel Frederiksen)
Joel Frederiksen – Renaissance lutes, voice (bass), direction
Timothy Leigh Evans – voice (tenor), percussion
Axel Wolf – theorbo
Domen Marincic – viola da gamba
Failing to find a wider audience during his lifetime, Nick Drake (1948 –1974) has only achieved wider notice and recognition after his premature death at the age of 26, and by today has become one of the most popular singer-songwriter of all times.
Joel Frederiksen, leader of Ensemble Phoenix Munich, specialized for baroque Music, was also deeply affected by Nick Drake's music from the moment he first heard it, in 1982, just 8 years after the singer’s death. The union of the plaintive voice, the intricate guitar accompaniments, and the moving lyrics in songs touched him deeply. His enthusiasm for the English lutenist song writers of the late Renaissance, as John Dowland, Thomas Campion and others, dates also from that time. Their poetry and music gave him the feeling of humbleness and inspiration at the same time.
Requiem for a Pink Moon is a personal tribute, using the form of a Requiem, setting these two eras of English singer-songwriters 400 years apart against one another, by interspersing portions of the Gregorian Mass. Drake's songs, arranged for Renaissance instruments reveal the 20th-century songwriter as a modern-day Thomas Campion whose works speak directly and powerfully to the human condition. Drake's was an art filled with melancholy, a feeling and a concept that unites him with the singer-songwriters of the Elizabethan age.
Ensemble Phoenix Munich (EPM) was founded in 2003 by Joel Frederiksen, American bass and lutenist. The ensemble focuses on music of the Renaissance and early Baroque, but does not limit itself to any one epoch exclusively. Programs range from Medieval to contemporary music reflecting the interests of its artistic leader, Joel Frederiksen.
For the CD Requiem for a Pink Moon, the Ensemble Phoenix Munich has received in 2013 the famous German Prize ECHO-Klassik, Category 'Classics without limits'.
www.joelfrederiksen.com www.ensemble-phoenix.com
Tickets are available for 2500 HUF in the box offices of the Palace of Arts, at the BMC, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU.
Failing to find a wider audience during his lifetime, Nick Drake (1948 –1974) has only achieved wider notice and recognition after his premature death at the age of 26, and by today has become one of the most popular singer-songwriter of all times.
Joel Frederiksen, leader of Ensemble Phoenix Munich, specialized for baroque Music, was also deeply affected by Nick Drake's music from the moment he first heard it, in 1982, just 8 years after the singer’s death. The union of the plaintive voice, the intricate guitar accompaniments, and the moving lyrics in songs touched him deeply. His enthusiasm for the English lutenist song writers of the late Renaissance, as John Dowland, Thomas Campion and others, dates also from that time. Their poetry and music gave him the feeling of humbleness and inspiration at the same time.
Requiem for a Pink Moon is a personal tribute, using the form of a Requiem, setting these two eras of English singer-songwriters 400 years apart against one another, by interspersing portions of the Gregorian Mass. Drake's songs, arranged for Renaissance instruments reveal the 20th-century songwriter as a modern-day Thomas Campion whose works speak directly and powerfully to the human condition. Drake's was an art filled with melancholy, a feeling and a concept that unites him with the singer-songwriters of the Elizabethan age.
Ensemble Phoenix Munich (EPM) was founded in 2003 by Joel Frederiksen, American bass and lutenist. The ensemble focuses on music of the Renaissance and early Baroque, but does not limit itself to any one epoch exclusively. Programs range from Medieval to contemporary music reflecting the interests of its artistic leader, Joel Frederiksen.
For the CD Requiem for a Pink Moon, the Ensemble Phoenix Munich has received in 2013 the famous German Prize ECHO-Klassik, Category 'Classics without limits'.
www.joelfrederiksen.com www.ensemble-phoenix.com
Tickets are available for 2500 HUF in the box offices of the Palace of Arts, at the BMC, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU.