Concert
TREFOIL performs “Dio Mio!”
14th-century Italian Love Songs
This event was on Friday, February 20, 2015. Explore the archive below.
Trefoil offers selections from the spectacular trecento style of 14th-century Italy. Music as described in Boccaccio’s Decameron: Madrigals, ballate, canons, and estampie by Landini, Cicconia, and Jacopo di Bologna.
TREFOIL is a trio of modern minstrels long active in early music, with experience in such ensembles as Les Arts Florissants, Concert Royal, Early Music New York, Pomerium, Piffaro, Clarion Music Society, and My Lord Chamberlain’s Consort. The trio debuted in New York and Philadelphia in 2000 with a program of 14th-century French ars subtilior song. The Philadelphia Inquirer tagged the group “a hearty trio of Medieval music specialists” and their performance as “an intricate, enigmatic vocal art.”
From the archive
Video 11 videos
Trefoil, "Lamento di Tristano e Rotta" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Sanctus" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Con umil core salutiamo cantando" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Donna Licadra" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "In Pro (istanpitta)" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Quel fronte signorille" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Ave Regina – Master Innocencie – Ite missa est" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "O Padua, Sidus Preclarum" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Vergene Bella" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Se la nimica mie Fortuna" (video by Bob Sweeney)
Trefoil, "Alba cholumba" (video by Bob Sweeney)