JAP: HAJNALI ÉN-EK

Is it "appropriate" to mix old, written music with contemporary music and improvisation? Is it possible to create a real link between different styles and eras? Is there interoperability? In this concert, the JAP orchestra weaves improvisation around excerpts from Baroque and Renaissance works. In their arrangements, they play music composed hundreds of years ago and then, while retaining their intrinsic cohesiveness, they add free improvisation to the layers that emerge from the skeleton. These contemporary reflections are by no means alien to the old: improvisation was a dominant element of Baroque and Renaissance performance art, which at that time was not so different from written music because of the existence of a uniform musical vernacular. Even so, there were some excellent composers who were already considered pioneers, such as John Dowland, whose songs are featured prominently in the concert. Dowland was one of the most famous musicians of his time - a pop star, so to speak - and his songs were written for the young people and amateur musicians of the stately homes.