This is at the RNCM on November 24th and has a few other UK dates - this is the fullest account I can find online.
It sounds fascinating!
Hear a live vocal soundtrack to an iconic film – an imaginative and intriguing crossover between early music and early film. Carl-Theodor Dreyer’s acclaimed masterpiece, La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (released in 1928), focuses on the trial of Joan of Arc between 1429 and 1431, and is often included in movie critics’ lists of the top ten films of all time. From its very first screening, various forms of music have accompanied this silent movie; works by composers as diverse as Nick Cave and J.S. Bach have been yoked to the director’s arresting images. Surprisingly though, for a film that takes its duty to history so seriously – the film spends its opening minutes insisting in its authenticity, describing how the dialogue is taken from the actual transcripts of the trial, while Dreyer was also painstaking in his recreation of the locations – no-one has provided a soundtrack of music of the period that the film depicts, namely the early 15th century. The Orlando Consort enhances the experience by singing live to the film and repertoire is drawn from a very specific period – the first 31 years of the 15th century. An extraordinary experience for cinephiles and early music lovers alike.
It sounds fascinating!
Hear a live vocal soundtrack to an iconic film – an imaginative and intriguing crossover between early music and early film. Carl-Theodor Dreyer’s acclaimed masterpiece, La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (released in 1928), focuses on the trial of Joan of Arc between 1429 and 1431, and is often included in movie critics’ lists of the top ten films of all time. From its very first screening, various forms of music have accompanied this silent movie; works by composers as diverse as Nick Cave and J.S. Bach have been yoked to the director’s arresting images. Surprisingly though, for a film that takes its duty to history so seriously – the film spends its opening minutes insisting in its authenticity, describing how the dialogue is taken from the actual transcripts of the trial, while Dreyer was also painstaking in his recreation of the locations – no-one has provided a soundtrack of music of the period that the film depicts, namely the early 15th century. The Orlando Consort enhances the experience by singing live to the film and repertoire is drawn from a very specific period – the first 31 years of the 15th century. An extraordinary experience for cinephiles and early music lovers alike.
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