I attended a small Estampie concert last friday. Estampie is an ensemble playing medieval music with original instruments and of course, vocals. It was a really beautiful concert: small (roughly 90 people), seated and with an enchanting performance of Estampie, especially by their singer Syrah and their newest addition, soprano Sarah M. Newman.

I know Estampie’s music since the early nineties, but so far I have not been attending one of their concerts, obviously, like other bands, they also skip Münster. I have only seen Syrah’s and Michael Popp’s electronic sideproject Qntal live (well, not in Münster).

The playlist of Estampie:

• La morena (sefardí, trad., 14th century)
  
• La galana y el mar (sefardí, trad., 15th century)
  
• Floret silva (Carmina Burana, 12th century)
  
• Ave donna santissima (13th century)
  
• Trotto (14th century)
  
• Los caminos (14th century)
  
• Gaudens in domino/Pferdetanz (13th century)
  
• Disse mi (14th century)
  
• Voi ch’amante (13th century)
  
• A virgen muy gloriosa (Alfonso X. el Sabio - Cantigas de Santa Maria, 1230 - 1284)
  
• Estampie V (14th century)
  
• Las suegras de ahora (sefardí, trad., 14th century)
  
• Quantos me creveren (Alfonso X. el Sabio - Cantigas de Santa Maria, )
• Gran dereit (Alfonso X. el Sabio - Cantigas de Santa Maria)
• and finally: Non sofre Santa Maria (Alfonso X. el Sabio - Cantigas de Santa Maria)

The concert lasted for over two hours (counting the small break within). It was a really impressive performance and when they performed the mongolian horsedance (see videos below), I was speechless. Needless to say the whole concert send shivers down my spine. Cudos to Estampie!

I also took some (bad quality) videos, mostly for you to have a clue what kind of music they play:

Estampie 1

Estampie 3

Estampie 4

Estampie - Mongolian Flying Horse Dance (part 1)

Estampie - Mongolian Flying Horse Dance (part 2)

Estampie 8:

More on my youtube-channel.

Oh, and of course I got me a new DVD from their Marco Polo-tour, of course signed by every ensemble member. And last but not least I got my personal pic with Syrah. Sadly, the colour version is overexposed and so I had to rescue it by converting to black and white.