The Medieval Manuscript the 'Chronicles of Mann and Sudreys' mentions various locations, including the Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and even places as far away as Norway and Brittany.
Russell Gilmour (trumpet) and David Kilgallon (organ) use melodies from these countries and they merge and fuse these ideas together with their own to create unique compositions for trumpet and organ. The idea behind their musical collaboration is to explore traditional music from these countries and to adapt the music, interpret it and explore it. Chronicles' musical format is slightly unusual in that it combines trumpet and organ - not the instruments you may initially associate with folk music - but it is an approach that has sparked a lot of interest.
Their limited edition EP "Prologue" is a sample of things to come, as the production of a full album is underway. The full album will be Chronicles' musical impression of the Isle of Man's influences and rich history - as documented in the Chronicles of Mann.
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Inspiring Bach - Spiritato - Stour Music Festival
%PM, %Europe/London %b %2022, %RIt was great to return to Stour Music Festival in East Kent to revisit Spiritato’s programme entitled ‘Inspiring Bach’, with the Marian Consort. We picked up from where we left off after our performance at St Giles Cripplegate in October 2021. I last performed at the Stour Music Festival in 2019, for I Fagiolini's performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
On Sunday 19th June 2022, we performed at Stour Music Festival (All Saints’ Church in Boughton Aluph) in Kent. The concert took place at 3pm, which is an excellent time for a concert. However, this required a rehearsal start time of 10am. I decided to drive down the night before and set up a tent at a nearby campsite, and Gareth (3rd trumpet) decided to join me in his own tent: he is training as as mountain guide, so he had all the equipment with him anyway. We had a leisurely start the next morning, as were only a very short distance away. This was a great solution in temperate June, though we didn’t expect the thunder and lightning we got: at least we know that the tents work well!
Two works entitled Christ lag in Todesbanden, one by Pachelbel and the other by J. S. Bach, had been added to our programme. I played the cornetto part in the latter, playing on a straight cornetto in three parts, pitched in A = 490 Hz (i.e. a tone above A = 440 Hz). I enjoyed playing next to the two viola players, Joanne Miller and Stephanie Heichelheim.
Our performance at Stour Music Festival felt much more like a development of the October project, rather than merely a repeat performance. Instead of fading over time, our interpretation seems to have matured in the interim. It was fun to play natural trumpets without holes here again, and the performance of the finale, J. C. Bach’s Es erhub sich ein streit, was particularly stirring! I look forward to returning to Stour Music Festival next week: they are the finest hosts and we enjoyed a wonderful spread of homemade savouries, salads and desserts—the apple and gooseberry crumble was exquisite! The church was absolutely full with listeners too, and the atmosphere was brilliant. I look forward to next week!
Bach, Cornetto, Natural Trumpet
On Sunday 19th June 2022, we performed at Stour Music Festival (All Saints’ Church in Boughton Aluph) in Kent. The concert took place at 3pm, which is an excellent time for a concert. However, this required a rehearsal start time of 10am. I decided to drive down the night before and set up a tent at a nearby campsite, and Gareth (3rd trumpet) decided to join me in his own tent: he is training as as mountain guide, so he had all the equipment with him anyway. We had a leisurely start the next morning, as were only a very short distance away. This was a great solution in temperate June, though we didn’t expect the thunder and lightning we got: at least we know that the tents work well!
Two works entitled Christ lag in Todesbanden, one by Pachelbel and the other by J. S. Bach, had been added to our programme. I played the cornetto part in the latter, playing on a straight cornetto in three parts, pitched in A = 490 Hz (i.e. a tone above A = 440 Hz). I enjoyed playing next to the two viola players, Joanne Miller and Stephanie Heichelheim.
Our performance at Stour Music Festival felt much more like a development of the October project, rather than merely a repeat performance. Instead of fading over time, our interpretation seems to have matured in the interim. It was fun to play natural trumpets without holes here again, and the performance of the finale, J. C. Bach’s Es erhub sich ein streit, was particularly stirring! I look forward to returning to Stour Music Festival next week: they are the finest hosts and we enjoyed a wonderful spread of homemade savouries, salads and desserts—the apple and gooseberry crumble was exquisite! The church was absolutely full with listeners too, and the atmosphere was brilliant. I look forward to next week!
🎺🎶 It’s not an early music festival without natural trumpets!! Thank you for a fantastic finish to weekend No.1! @Spiritato @marianconsort #StourMusic #StourMusic2022 pic.twitter.com/BcuPhBwEzf
— Stour Music Festival (@MusicStour) June 19, 2022