The Schoole of Night will perform the entire Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600) of John Dowland during the Usedomer Musikfestival.
Sunday, 8.10.2017 at 11.30 in the telier Otto Niemeyer-Holstein | Lüttenort (Koserow)
On 25 August 2017, The Schoole will perform the reformatory programme again. This time in Jarosław, Poland, in St. Nicolas Church, at 20.00, during the early music festival The Song of Our Roots.
http://www.festiwal.jaroslaw.pl/pro/2017_pro_koncerty_pl.html
The Schoole has a number of concerts to perform with the programme containing the songs of the Reformation this summer. Here are some of them:
8 July 2017
Ev. Dorfkirche Schönfließ (Oberhavel)
Dorfstraße 26, 16567 Mühlenbecker Land
9 July 2017
Kościół Matki Bożej Częstochowskiej w Słońsku
plac Wolności 1, Sonnenburg/Słońsk, Poland
19 July 2017 , 18:00
Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte
Am Neuen Markt 9, 14467 Potsdam
(Concert ending the lecture series ‘Reformation in Brandenburg and in Eastern Europe)
An event organised by the German Culture Forum for Eastern Europe within the 2017 subject: Mehr als Luther. Reformation im östlichen Europa (More than Luther. The Reformation in Eastern Europe). In cooperation with Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte (HBPG), Potsdam University, Filmmuseum Potsdam and Kulturfeste im Land Brandenburg e.V. und Kulturbrücke über die Oder
Eine Veranstaltung des Deutschen Kulturforums östliches Europa im Rahmen des Jahresthemas 2017: Mehr als Luther. Reformation im östlichen Europa. In Kooperation mit dem Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte (HBPG), der Universität Potsdam, dem Filmmuseum Potsdam sowie Kulturfeste im Land Brandenburg e.V. und Kulturbrücke über die Oder.
On 30 April and 2 May 2017 The Schoole of Night performed concerts in honour of the 375th birthday of the German poet Chritian Weise, playing songs to his texts composed by Johann Krieger.
The Schoole of Night:
Maria Skiba – soprano
Michael Spiecker, Anette Rössel – violins; Claas Harders – viola da gamba; Monika Fischaleck – bassoon; Sven Rössel – violone, Marketa Cechova – organ; Frank Pschichholz – theorbo, lute and artistic direction
with Schulübergreifender Chor under the direction of Felix Weickelt
30.04.2017 Museum Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz Zittau
02.05.2017 Research Library Liberec
A cooperation project of Kultur- und Weiterbildung mbH Löbau and Research Library in Liberec, financed by the European Union.
February 19, 2017, Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz, 17.00 (Entrance from the Fischmarktstraße)
The Schoole of Night will present a programme with songs of the Reformation from the territory of Poland-Lithuania and Germany.
Maria Skiba – soprano, Irene Klein – viol, Frank Pschichholz – lute and artistic direction
Concert produced by Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa and Kulturreferentin für Schlesien
more under:
http://www.schlesisches-museum.de/index.php?id=6594
15 October 2016
The Schoole of Night will perform John Dowland’s entire Second Booke of Songs or Ayres during the Güldener Herbst festival in Thüringen
Maria Skiba- soprano & Frank Pschichholz – lute
15.10.2016; Dornburg, Altes Schloss (Kaisersaal) 16.00
http://www.gueldener-herbst.de/de/gueldener-herbst/GH2016/Festivalprogramm2016.php
Saturday 11 June 2016
17.00 Bibliotheca Augusta, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
The ensembles Bella Discordia and The Schoole of Night will present a variety of pieces connected or dedicated to various foreign European consorts of the first half of the 17th century – from Christine de Lorraine, Maria Magdalena of Austria, Anna de Medici to the Empress Eleonora Gonzaga.
The music by Giulio and Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Claudio Monteverdi and Dietrich von dem Werder will represent the cycle of a consort’s life that started with wedding festivities and ended with the death of her husband.
Wedding cantatas will be intertwined with religious chamber pieces showing a consort’s piety, it will be accompanied by instrumental pieces from the courts in Brussels (Giovanni Paolo Foscarini) and the royal court of Warsaw from Marco Schacchi’s Cribrum musicum (1643) and it will all end with songs of mourning and consolation.
http://www.hab.de/de/home/museum-kulturprogramm/kulturelle-veranstaltungen.html
http://www.marryingcultures.eu/event/music-for-the-consort-public-concert
Photo: Ewa Czarska
21 April 2016, Royal Castle, Warsaw, 18.00
At the opening of the exhibition Royal marriages of princes and princesses in Poland and Lithuania, c. 1500-1800 and the international workshop ‘Frictions and Failures’ The Schoole of Night will perform a selection of songs from Dietrich von dem Werder’s Vier und zwanzig Freuden-reiche Trost-Lieder/ Oder Trost-reiche Freuden-Gesänge…, Leipzig 1653.
The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba- soprano & Frank Pschichholz- chitarra spagnuola, lute
More under: http://www.marryingcultures.eu/news/warsaw-workshop-programme
Polnische, litauische und deutsche Lieder und Psalmen der Reformationszeit
Musikalische Soiree mit dem Ensemble »The Schoole of Night«
Maria Skiba-soprano, Irene Klein-viola da gamba, Frank Pschichholz – lute
09.03.2016 , 18:30
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin
Produced by: Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa e.V. http://www.kulturforum.info/de/ The concert is a part of an international conference “Der Luthereffekt im östlichen Europa”(Berlin, 8-10 March 16), more under: https://www.dhm.de/sammlung-forschung/symposien-workshops/der-luthereffekt.html
Photo: Ewa Czarska
I N N A T A L I D O M I N I
2 December 2015 19.00 , Friedenssaal des Friedenskirchengemeinde,
Schopenhauerstraße 23, 14467 Potsdam
THE SCHOOLE OF NIGHT
MARIA SKIBA, IRENE KLEIN, NIKLAS TRÜSTEDT, FRANK PSCHICHHOLZ
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Christmas carol or Christmas song emerged from congratulatory songs that were performed around Christmas time in the middle ages. Within the 16th century a transition took place and from now on the songs were almost entirely concerned with the birth of Jesus. Both melodies and texts were most probably written for mystery plays taking place outside of the church walls. The first of those plays were recorded around 11th century. There are numerous records of songs for such occasions and they were relatively common across Europe.
In the 16th century a Christmas song gradually finds its way into the church where it starts to be sung during Advent and Christmas times. Also a tradition of performing Christmas songs around towns and villages emerges, where it was mostly done by groups of children (Stanisław Hozjusz, Confessio fidei catholicae christiana, Krakow 1553).
In the 15th century there already existed a tradition of Christmas songs but they were mostly in Latin. Reformatory movements brought about translations of the song texts into local languages and thus the same songs can be found in different songbooks and different languages across the continent.
Most of the pieces were preserved in Protestant songbooks and although some of those collections seem quite late, they only recorded a pre-existing oral tradition that was common to both Catholic and Protestant churches.
In the programme we wanted to present some of the most popular Latin Christmas time songs that were published or written down in song books from the regions of Germany, Poland, Silesia and Czech through the 16th century. Some of them like Puer Natus in Bethlehem can be found in many German and Polish sources. Mostly it is difficult to determine the exact time span when the books were compiled as well as who the authors of the texts were, although there are some sources like Johann Spangeberg’s Alte und newe geistliche lieder (1544) where Spangenberg is the author of the German translation. Some of the songs might probably be original compositions with only one language version (like e.g. Witaj Jezu przenasłodszy). They were all performed already in the Advent and through Christmas time. The versions in the programme come from various song books from the 16th century but also versions by Michael Praetorius will be performed. We have also included a number of instrumental pieces and a few songs from the Glogauer Liederbuch (1477-1481), an amazing source of liturgical and non-liturgical musical tradition of Silesia at the end of the 15th century.
Organised and produced by Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa
