Medieval songs & folk melodies
with Helena Ek (voice, fiddle) and Anna Maria Friman (voice, Hardanger fiddle)
Swedish folk melodies, medieval songs, French songs
There is a Marian church in every Hanseatic city because Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the patron saint of sailors. As "Stella Maris", "Star of the Sea", Mary was invoked for help by the sailors of Europe in the Middle Ages.
With Swedish folk melodies and medieval chants, Helena Ek, a sought-after singer on the Swedish early music scene with engagements with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and Stockholm Baroque Orchestra, and Anna Maria Friman, co-founder of Trio Mediæval, which records for ECM Records, take us on a journey across the seas of Europe, at the end of which there is reflection and contemplation.
