analógion is an ensemble specialised in medieval music and based in Hamburg, Germany and Basel, Switzerland. Our main interest lies in early liturgical and paraliturgical music – and our philosophy is mirrored by our name:

Having in mind the greek word analogía, we are fascinated by the medieval obsession with analogies: translated as “good relation, accordance, proportion”, analogía stands for the connection of sound, human and world – the connection of what is in the Middle Ages called musica instrumentalis, musica humana and musica mundana. The medieval mind imagines a connection of song and the world – as we think, a beautiful way to describe the power of musical harmony. But even further: For us, “good relation” and “accordance” also stand for the vivid transcultural movements which already happened during those many years that today are referred to as “Middle Ages” – and so we do not want to focus only on central European repertory but are also interested in the medieval musical traditions from the mediterranean melting pot of cultures.