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2021-03-03 09:36:08
Love in the Lockdown: Clare Norburn's new self-isolation online play with music
In September last year I chatted to Clare Norburn of The Telling about the ensemble's lockdown activities which includes a number of Clare's own concert plays [see my interview]. At the time we spoke she had a new concert play on the boil, Love in the Lockdown which was something of a departure for her. It concerned not an historical musical figure but a modern-day couple separated during Lockdown, the one a musician the other a playwright, both fascinated by Boccaccio and The Decameron, so that the resulting concert play involves music related to Boccaccio, by Guillaume de Machaut, Johannes Ciconia, Francesco Landini, Gherardello da Firenze as well as the issues of the Black Death in Florence in 1348. The result has come to fruition, and is being broadcast in nine episodes, in real time (except a year on) from 4 March to 23 May 2021. Emilia, the musician, is played […]
2019-01-31 12:37:24
Of arms and a woman: late medieval wind music inspired by Christine de Pisan
[…] of Pisan's poetry, so here we have a wide selection of chansons which reflect the themes of her work in versions for Medieval wind ensemble performed by Blondel (Louise Anna Duggan, Emily Baines, Daniel Serafini, Lizzie Gutteridge and Belinda Paul) on First Hand Records. Whilst many of the works on the disc are anonymous, we also have music by Dufay, John Bedyngham, Gilles Binchois, Johannes Ciconia, Baude Cordier, Guillaume de Machaut, Solage, Robert Morton, Francesco Landini, and Josquin des Pres. The result is 24 short tracks which engage with the melodic freedom of the music and delightful imagination of the scoring. Blondel use a mixture of instruments, recorders, shawms, bagpipes, slide trumpets, sackbuts, frame drum tabor and tamburello, so that each item has a sound world matched to it, from the martial combination of shawms, sackbut and tabor to the more gentle ensemble of three recorders. For the anonymous […]
2016-10-21 01:00:00
[…] Christian Schickhardt (1682-1762)Six Concerts a 4 Flutes et Basse Continue Flautando KölnLabel: Ars Musici AM 232341Recorded March 2001 [Flac & scans]Download La Spiritata Recorder Music throughout the Centuries Works of Palestrina, Merula, Bassano, Trabaci, Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Müller, Geysen, Hirose Flautando Köln Label: Ars Musici AM 232445 Recorded May 1996 [Flacs & scans] Download La Spiritata 2Recorder Music throughoutthe CenturiesWorks of Isaac, Buxtehude,Uccelini, Landini, Vivaldi,Müller, Mulligan, Thomas Flautando KölnLabel: Ars Musici AM 232418Recorded May 2007 [Flacs & scans]Download
2014-07-08 07:00:08
Classical music: The weeklong Madison Early Music Festival starts Saturday. It turns 15, puts early Italian music in the spotlight and adds FREE noontime lectures while enhancing the second annual Handel Aria smack-down and using new venues. Part 2 of 2.
[…] in other areas where Italians settled. Italy gradually lost its position of cultural leadership. It was replaced first by France and then by Germany. What music and composers of the era have been most neglected and least neglected by historians and performers? Monteverdi and Palestrina (below) are probably the most well-known of the major composers from Italy at this time. Others who should be better known are Cipriano de Rore, Luzzaschi, Caccini, Gesualdo, Lassus, Tromboncino, Landini and many others. Can you tell us about the program “Trionfi: The Triumphs of Petrarch” for the concluding All-Festival Concert on Saturday, July 19? Cheryl: Grant Herreid, who is a member of Piffaro, has been a part of the MEMF faculty since the beginning. When we chose the topic for this year, he had a wonderful selection in mind for the July 19 program. I’ve included his notes, which describe the All-Festival […]
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