EMS "York Early Music Festival - Apotropaïk" 13/10/2024

[AuntDaisy]

This EMS looks good...

York Early Music Festival - Apotropaïk - The Early Music Show

Hannah French introduces a concert given by the French medieval specialists Apotropaïk at the York Early Music Festival in July, in which they explore many different portrayals of women in songs of the late Middle Ages.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023q83

I think it's their "Bella donna" concert (& not "Charles VII, music-lover" - Ockeghem, Binchois, Dufay & Busnois)

York Early Music Festival 2024: Event 20
APOTROPAIK

Thursday 11 July 9.45pm – 10.45pm
Venue: Merchant Adventurers Hall

Bella donna

For their second concert Apotropaïk focus on ‘La bella donna’, the idealised woman praised in the courtly love tradition, but also the sublime, poisonous flower well known to witches for the preparation of their potions. Starting from a canso de trobairitz (female alter ego of the troubadour) and progressing through monodic and polyphonic songs of the 13th and 14th centuries, the programme reveals a mosaic of fascinating female figures

[french frank]

Thank you for posting the additional material - not a lot on the R3 page at the moment. This is the group's website for more info on them:

https://www.apotropaik.eu/en/home/

[AuntDaisy]

Thank you for posting the additional material - not a lot on the R3 page at the moment. This is the group's website for more info on them:
https://www.apotropaik.eu/en/home/

Thanks, French Frank.
I now know where their unusual name comes from (no surprise to you, I suspect).

Last year's EMS The harp, the philtre and the sword was excellent.

[french frank]

I now know where their unusual name comes from (no surprise to you, I suspect).

I looked them up precisely to discover what it meant! Not in everday use even in the Middle Ages

[vinteuil]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic_magic

I see from the OED that Lytton Strachey used the word in Eminent Victorians -

"The same doctrine led him [scil. General Gordon] ... to append, in brackets,the apotropaic initials D.V. after every statement in his letters implying futurity"



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