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Trio Mediaeval at Bijou Theater at
Courtesy of ECM records | Posted on February 2, 2011
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Sat, March 26, 2011
7.30PM
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Trio Mediaeval
band / ensemble / orchestraAnna Maria Friman
vocalsLinn Andrea Fuglseth
vocalsKaspar Rast
drumsAndi Pupato
percussionAbout
Trio Mediaeval
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Anna Maria Friman voice
Linn Andrea Fuglseth voice
Torunn Østrem Ossum voice
Few vocal ensembles produce quite as beautiful and finely blended a sound as this Norwegian trio…
Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
Oslo’s Trio Mediaeval presents a reconstruction of a 13th century votive Mass to the Virgin Mary, based on surviving manuscripts from a Benedectine Abbey in the English Midlands. Inserted amid the medieval music are a Credo and Benedicamus Domino specially composed for this program by Gavin Bryars. Indeed, the old and the new intermingle in the work of this vocal ensemble. Anna Maria Friman: “The members of Trio Mediaeval feel that performing mediaeval music today gives us the freedom to let our imagination and ideas flow, as though we are creating contemporary music.”...