Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Mana Tinkerhess, triple harp Robert Wang, theorbo
Live at the Santa Cecilia Arts and Learning Center, 12/6/2025Tambourins by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace RoyerEnsemble Flame2024-08-10 | Live at the Brand Library and Arts Center, Glendale, October 2023. Robert Wang, theorbo Mana Tinkerhess, triple harp Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gambaThe Merry BlacksmithEnsemble Flame2024-07-27 | Live at the Brand Library and Arts Center, Glendale, October 2023. Robert Wang, theorbo Mana Tinkerhess, triple harp Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gambaMedieval love songs, Renaissance and baroque musicEnsemble Flame2024-07-20 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Mana Tinkerhess, medieval harp and baroque triple harp Robert Wang, lute and theorbo
Extracts from a concert at the Santa Cecilia Arts and Learning Center, Los Angeles, March 2024.
The Pain and Joy of Love: A Thousand Years of Song and Dance—music by Comtessa de Dia, Guillaume de Machaut, Diego Ortiz, Marin Marais, and more.
Ensemble Flame presents a musical journey from the earliest notated melodies of medieval troubadours and trobairitz to virtuosic instrumental music of the baroque era. The pain and joy of love is a recurring theme of poets and musicians from the past thousand years—indeed, some of the first printed books of instrumental music from the Renaissance include arrangements of vocal love songs. Extracts of philosophy and folk fiddle tunes appease the passions of the soul, aided by Ensemble Flame’s ancient instruments: the voice, lute, triple harp and viola da gamba.Polwart on the GreenEnsemble Flame2024-07-13 | Arranged by James Oswald in "A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes For A Violin, Bass Viol or German Flute," Edinburgh: 1740.
Oswald was born in Crail, Scotland. After working as a dancing master he eventually became a chamber composer for King George III. In a letter, Benjamin Franklin described hearing Oswald play unaccompanied fiddle songs on the cello: the listeners had "Teares of Pleasure."
Lyrics of the original song:
At Polwart on the Green, If you'll meet me the Morn, Where Lasses do conveen, To dance about the Thorn; A kindly welcome you shall meet, Frae her wha likes to view, A Lover and a lad complete, The Lad and Lover you.
Artwork: "The Penny Wedding" by David Allan, ca. 1795.
Nadezda Soroka, violin Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Mana Tinkerhess, triple harp Robert Wang, lute
From the album "O Mother What Shall I Do," available on streaming platforms.LochaberEnsemble Flame2022-12-23 | Nadezda Soroka, violin Mana Azimi, triple harp Robert Wang, theorbo Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba
"O Mother What Shall I Do" by Ensemble Flame is now available on streaming platforms.
Francesco Barsanti, "A Collection of Old Scots Tunes, With the Baßs For Violoncello or Harpsichord. Set and most humbly Dedicated, to The Right Honourable The Lady Erskine," Francis Barsanti, Edinburgh: 1742.
"Loch Awe, Argyllshire," Alexander Nasmyth, ca. 1785. Yale Center for British Art.O Mother What Shall I DoEnsemble Flame2022-12-10 | Nadezda Soroka, violin Mana Azimi, triple harp Robert Wang, theorbo Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba
"O Mother What Shall I Do" by Ensemble Flame is now available on streaming platforms.
"A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes For A Violin, Bass Viol or German Flute," James Oswald, [Edinburgh]: ca. 1740.Forqueray, Chaconne. La Morangis ou La PlissayEnsemble Flame2021-08-07 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseForqueray, La FerrandEnsemble Flame2021-07-31 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseNathan Mondry, La TanimotoEnsemble Flame2021-07-24 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseNathan Mondry, La GallagherEnsemble Flame2021-07-17 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseNathan Mondry, La TinkerhessEnsemble Flame2021-07-10 | Forqueray: Pièces De Viole avec la Basse Continuë, available on streaming platforms August 7.
Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Viola da gamba by Ambroise de Comble, Tournai, 1750, lent by The Orpheon Foundation. Harpsichord by Marc Ducornet, Flemish model, 1985.
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#newmusic #contemporarymusic #harpsichord #composer #neobaroqueForqueray, Chaconne La BuissonEnsemble Flame2021-07-03 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseForqueray, La Du VaucelEnsemble Flame2021-06-26 | Forqueray: Pièces De Viole avec la Basse Continuë, available on streaming platforms August 7.
Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Viola da gamba by Ambroise de Comble, Tournai, 1750, lent by The Orpheon Foundation. Harpsichord by Marc Ducornet, Flemish model, 1985.
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseForqueray, La Leon, SarabandeEnsemble Flame2021-06-12 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseForqueray, La AngraveEnsemble Flame2021-06-05 | Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba Nathan Mondry, harpsichord
Vase of Flowers, Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), 1722. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
#forqueray #violadagamba #harpsichord #violedegambe #clavecin #cembalo #frenchbaroque #baroque #gallant #musiquebaroque #musiquebaroquefrançaiseMarin Marais, La MatelotteEnsemble Flame2021-05-31 | Happy 365th birthday Marin Marais! "La Matelotte," "The Sailor," 1717.
Eric Tinkerhess, violas da gamba Alejandro Acosta, theorbo
www.ensembleflame.comCouperin, 12th Concert in A majorEnsemble Flame2019-02-09 | François Couperin (1668-1733): 12th concert in A major (1724) Prelude - Badinage - Lentement - Air
Ensemble Flame Notre-Dame de la Brèche, Chartres festival de clavecin - 14 mai 2017Marin Marais, Feste champetreEnsemble Flame2017-03-23 | Quatrième livre (1717)
Eric Tinkerhess, viole de gambe Takahisa Aida, clavecin Abraham Gomez, théorbe Dancers: Topaz, Laure Wernly, Mélissa Euchin
Ensemble Flame Eglise Luthérienne, Paris 5 mars 2017Marin Marais, Allemande LAsmatiqueEnsemble Flame2017-03-13 | Quatrième livre (1717)
Eric Tinkerhess, viole de gambe Takahisa Aida, clavecin Abraham Gomez, théorbe
Dancers: Topaz, Laure Wernly, Mélissa Euchin
Ensemble Flame Eglise Luthérienne, Paris 5 mars 2017Robert de Visée, Prélude and Allemande in D minorEnsemble Flame2016-11-09 | Abraham Gomez, théorbe Pauline Belle, déclamation
Poème : Jean de La Ceppède (1548-1623) - Théorèmes spirituels (1621), "La Lumière se meurt."
Ce mystère est par tout marqué par la nature : La lumière se meurt à l’abord de la nuict, Puis revit, et reluit ; le grain sous la culture De la terre se meurt, puis nombreux se produict.
Nous voyons tous les jours des arbres cheoir le fruict (Dont le jardin paroit sa plaisante closture) Qui se meurt et pourrit, pour bien qu’il soit reduict ; Puis revit, et renaist apres sa pourriture.
Dans l’onde de Solin le brandon plus ardant Est promptement esteint, la mesme eau va rendant La flamme à ce brandon, si dans elle il retombe.
Le flot de ce bas monde esteint notre flambeau, Mais apres que la mort l’a trempé dans la tombe, Il revit, et rebrille et plus clair et plus beau.
Poem : Jean de La Ceppède (1548-1623) - Spiritual Theorems (1621), "The Light Dies".
This mystery is everywhere marked by nature: The light dies as the night falls, Then relives, and re-shines; the grain under the crop Of the earth dies, then re-produces numerously.
We see everyday from the trees falling fruit (Of which the garden seems its pleasant fence) Which dies and rots, so that it would be well reduced; Then relives, and is born again after its rotting.
In the wave of Solin the strongest firebrand Is promptly extinguished, the same water goes rendering The flame to this firebrand, if in her he falls again.
The flow of this low world extinguishes our flame, But after death has soaked it in the tomb, It relives, and re-shines even more clear and beautiful.
Ensemble Flame Cathédrale Sainte-Croix des-Arméniens, Paris 6 novembre 2016