Rabaskadol

Rabaskadol

The ensemble Rabaskadol was founded in 1985 to perform wind music on period instruments. Its repertoire ranges from medieval minstrels’ pieces to town pipers’ music from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as later forms and instrumentations of town pipers’ music dating from the eighteenth century. The instruments used are as follows: bagpipe, shawm and drums for medieval minstrels’ music; shawms and slide trumpet as fifteenth-century alta instrumentation; cornett, shawm, trombone and dulcian as characteristic town pipers’ instruments around 1600; cornetts and trombones for German repertoire of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Rabaskadol has realised the following concert programmes, theatrical productions and educational projects: Estampie: a gift from the Orient; Carmina Burana, a ballet in collaboration with the Stadttheater Aachen; Town pipers in the Low Countries; Urbs aquensis: music from Aachen, Liège and Maastricht; Recueil de plusieurs vieux airs (Philidor collection); The town pipers’ instruments as organ stops; Spaerens vreugden bron – the town pipers of Haarlem; CD: Town musicians: carillonneurs and town pipers in the Golden Age.