THE ROYAL WIND MUSIC

101 generous donors have already contributed over € 4500 to fund our upcoming CD recording. Thank you all for your support!

The campaign is now on 64% and we have 5 DAYS left (until 28 February) to reach 80% of our goal, so that we are allowed to keep the money we collected until now and can make the project happen.

*** Will you help us getting there? ***
Please visit bit.ly/crowdfundingRWM, donate and share.

Here is a video compilation of recent live performances of some of the pieces that will be included in the CD, recorded in Blokzijl (NL) and in rehearsal in Stuttgart (D). The sound quality is not the best, but we hope these samples will help you to look forward to the album, in which we WILL have the BEST sound by engineer Andrea Friggi!

Would you like to ask us questions about the project and hear a few more pieces performed live exclusively for you...? Meet, greet and hear us LIVE on YouTube on Monday 24 February at 20:30 Amsterdam time! Here is the link: https://youtu.be/6gHW7kJ4k3M

Thanks for reading, thanks for sharing!
The Royal Wind Music

*** DONATE HERE: https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/9514-de-sinaasappelhof ***

We are The Royal Wind Music, a unique ensemble formed by eleven musicians with a passion for music from the golden age of polyphony (1450-1600).

A crowdfunding campaign to fund our 10th CD recording is running on the Dutch platform Voordekunst between 21 December 2019 and 14 February 2020. In this video we tell you more about the project. Will you help us making it possible and spreading the word? Every little contribution helps.

Thank you very much for watching and sharing!

The Royal Wind Music

"Nostre maistre et bon pere"
Masters and apprentices in Renaissance music

Audio: live recording by Dutch Radio 4
23 October 2017, Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Open Recorder Days Amsterdam

Video: Sarah Jeffery
Photos: Yat Ho Tsang & Naza PF

Programme, arrangements and diminutions: Petri Arvo
Musicians: The Royal Wind Music

Works by...
Buonamente - Froberger - Monteverdi
Binchois - Ockeghem - Desprez - De Wert - Willaert
Eccard - Lassus

Bookings open for season 2018-2019 and further
Contact us: info@royalwindmusic.org

The Royal Wind Music
"Nostre maistre et bon pere"

Geluid: live opname van Radio 4 voor "Het Avondconcert"
23 oktober 2017, Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Open Recorder Days Amsterdam

Video: Sarah Jeffery
Foto's: Yat Ho Tsang & Naza PF
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"Nostre maistre et bon pere"
Meesters en gezellen in de muziek van de renaissance

Programma, arrangementen en diminuties: Petri Arvo
Musici: The Royal Wind Music

Muziek van...
Buonamente - Froberger - Monteverdi
Binchois - Ockeghem - Desprez - Richafort - De Wert - Willaert
Eccard - Lassus

Boekingen open voor seizoen 2018-2019 en verder
info@royalwindmusic.org

Full programme and info: www.openrecorderdays.com

Tickets: https://www.klassiekemuziek.nl/open-recorder-days
or
https://www.openrecorderdays.com/concerts/

Concerts:

Thursday October 26, 20.15 • The Royal Wind Music & Psallentes directed by Hendrik Vanden Abeele. Renaissance recorder consort & Female vocal ensemble • Notre maistre et bon pere, masters and apprentices in Renaissance music.

Friday October 27, 13.00u • Antonio Politano • The modern recorder, 21st-century compositions for solo recorder and live electronics.

Friday October 27, 20.15 • Michael Form (recorder) & Dirk Börner (harpsichord) • Bach Remixed

Saturday 28 October, 13.00 • Spark, the Classical Rockband • On the Dancefloor. Dancing with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven & ABBA

Saturday October 28, 20.15 • Mala Punica (recorder/fiddle/voice/keyboard) • Beata Incendium. Fervour and patronage in motets of Johannes Ciconia

Sunday October 29, 11.00 • Theater F L U U P (recorder/panflute/mime/dance) • Toddler's concert Sleepover, a little bit scary.....a lot of fun! (2+)

Sunday October 29, 12.30 • The Royal Wind Music. Educational event with premiere of the interactive festival composition by Paul Leenhouts, directed by Paul Leenhouts • free entrance

Excerpts from the educational concert "Around the world with The Royal Wind Music"
Live recording | Amsterdam, Compagnietheater | Grachtenfestival 2013

Arrangements: Paul Leenhouts
Drawings: Miriam Bouwens
Programme and concept: Hester Groenleer

The Royal Wind Music: Stephanie Brandt, Francesca Clements, Eva Gemeinhardt, Arwieke Glas, Hester Groenleer, Kyuri Kim, Dodó Kis, Yi-Chang Liang, Marco Magalhães, María Martínez Ayerza, Filipa Margarida Pereira, Anna Stegmann: renaissance recorders

"Top of the Blocks" by The Royal Wind Music
An interactive concert for children and their families

Programme and concept: Hester Groenleer
Arrangements: Paul Leenhouts, Hester Groenleer, María Martínez Ayerza

Live recording during the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam 2015
Conservatorium van Amsterdam

Preview of the CD "Cosmography" (Spring 2017)

Juan del Encina: Oy comamos y bebamos
Arrangement: María Martínez Ayerza
Sound: Andrea Friggi & Alberto Piovesan

The Royal Wind Music directed by Paul Leenhouts
CD - "Sweete Musicke of Sundrie Kindes"

Lindoro NL-3023, 2014
More info and orders: http://www.royalwindmusic.org/media/recordings/

Music by William Byrd, John Coprario, John Dowland, James Harding, Anthony Holborne, Thomas Tallis and others

In the 1530s the Bassano brothers of Venice were recommended to the court of King Henry VIII (1491-1547) as musicians, composers and instrument makers. The Bassanos founded a consort of five recorders, being joined in 1550 by Augustine Bassano (d.1604) to form a six-member consort that was manned principally by their offspring until the unification of wind consorts into one group in the 1630s.

The repertory of this ‘royal recorder consort’, which inspires this CD, consisted of fantasias as well as dances and instrumental arrangements of motets and madrigals. The consort, as Augustine Bassano specified in a document from 1564, was ‘bounden to give daily attendance upon the Queen's Majesty’. Consorts provided entertainment and music for a wide variety of court activities, and provided occupation for many professional musicians and composers.

In the theatre, where consort music was frequently performed, instrumentation would often be used according to symbolic associations of particular instruments. The soft and sweet sound of flutes or recorders, occasionally referred to as ‘still music’, suggested to symbolise scenes linked to supernatural events or sometimes death.

The Royal Wind Music
Live recording • 20 april 2013

Grote Kerk, Maassluis, The Netherlands
Series "Muziek tussen Maas en Sluis"