Description
Volume 3 of the already critically lauded TACET Mare Balticum series pays homage to Wizlav von Rugen (c. 1268-1325) with the first complete recording of his songs.
Ensemble Peregrina, founded in 1997 by Polish singer and musicologist Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett in Basle, researches and performs sacred and secular music from ninth to fourteenth century Europe. The ensemble's main interest lies in the early polyphonies and monophonic repertories of the Notre Dame school and Aquitanian nova cantica; the aim always being to look for a creative "counterpoint" to the mainstream in the less known peripheral sources. The ensemble's programmes are characterised by a careful choice of themes and pieces, always paying close attention to their textual and musical interrelationships.
At present the core of the ensemble is Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Lorenza Donadini, Hanna Jarvelainen, Grace Newcombe, Baptiste Romain and Marc Lewon. For the project Mare Balticum the ensemble was joined by Benjamin Bagby (Sequentia).