Decameron Musicale

Double Bill concert of medieval music with Rune's Decameron Musicale and Ensemble Gamut!'s album launch.

Boccaccio's Decameron portrays the various aspects of human nature and experience in vivid detail. Through pieces by Landini, Ciconia, Machaut, de Vitry and Binchois, Ensemble Rune spin musical tales of Fortune, Virtue, Love and Trickery.

From wild flowers to walled gardens: mystical spell-songs, 'rūn' in Old English, are the inspiration for the recently formed London-based Rune, whose fascination with the rare and touching beauty of music dating back 700 years runs deep. This special double bill concert draws together two different ensembles whose common love of harp, recorder, ancient strings and vocals will conjure a unique evening guaranteed to impress.

"Ethno Album of the Year" is the nomination attained for their most recent album by Ensemble Gamut!, whose "refreshing, soothing, intriguing and enlightening" music has attracted international interest across genres. This exceptional harp, jouhikko, blockflute (recorder) and voice trio from Finland, who combine and daringly rearrange elements from medieval music and Finnish folk songs, intertwining improvisation and electronic soundscapes, will be playing the London launch of their third album "MI", an exploration of the boundary between the living and the non-living, asking what is alive and what has already faded into extinction. The endangered flowers of the Arctic are a central focus, with this a rallying cry to protect them: there is still time.