David Hatcher Alison Kinder Claire Horáček Timothy Lin
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Concerts coming up:
Friday May 8th, 7.30pm: Early Voices Wales, St Illtud’s Church, Church Lane, CF61 1SG
September 12th, 3pm: St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh EH1 1LG
September 26th, 7.30pm: Banbury Early Music Festival
October 10th, 7.30pm: Crowborough Arts
October 11th, 3pm: Folkestone Early Music
A CD launch concert tour with Héloïse Bernard presents Epitaph for a Green Lover, celebrating the remarkable life of Margaret of Austria, one of the 16th century’s greatest patrons of the arts. The programme brings her world to life through music from manuscripts connected to her court. Margaret loved dancing and singing, but above all she adored her green parrot. The title comes from the poignant chanson Soubz ce tumbel, with a tragic text by her court poet Jean Lemaire, from Epitaphe de l’Amant Vert. Performed on Renaissance viols with rebec, pipes, and drums, the programme presents songs and instrumental music in a vivid musical story.
A really enchanting and uplifting evening
a joyous feast of melancholy!
Somewhere between perfect and sublime
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Tracks from the new recording are being released monthly by CRD Records . Find them here.
We are very grateful to have been awarded generous grants from The Continuo Foundation, Angel Early Music and The Marchus Trust who have made the recording possible.
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If you would like to buy the CD please email linarolconsort@gmail.com.
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La La Hö Hö can be bought direct from us, please click here
Both CDs are published by the Inventa label of Resonus.
“The performances on this disc are outstanding, and the soundworld is seductive and delightful.” For the full review of our debut CD La La Hö Hö from Planet Hugill click here
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At the end of January 2024 we made a recording of our popular programme, Epitaph for a Green Lover, with award winning producer Adrian Hunter.
Here is a video of Soubz ce tumbel the title track of the recording
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The Linarol Consort of Renaissance Viols draws together players who are leading exponents of the viol as both a consort and solo instrument, and focuses uniquely on their love of the instrument’s very earliest sound and repertoire.
The Consort takes its name from the maker of the original viol on which the instruments they play are modelled: all are copies of one surviving viol by the Venetian maker Francesco Linarol, who was active throughout the 16th century and currently displayed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. David has worked closely with viol maker Richard Jones, who will shortly complete his 100th copy of the Linarol viol, to recreate two sets of viols: a “high” consort of treble, two tenors and a bass, and a “low” consort, pitched a fourth lower, comprising a tenor, two basses and a “great” bass.
Photographs of the group were kindly taken by Anthony Pearson. Do have a look at more of his great photos on his website Dank Spangle.
Recorded at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking during our residency in January 2022.
Thank you to The Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust for supporting our residency and Michael Hamilton of Real Music Videos.
Barber Lunchtime Virtual Concert Premiered February 2021
Lockdown Linarols
This is four Davids on viols with a remote James Gilchrist added to the mix. Part of David’s Consort-Music-Minus-one project.
Frag weiter nit, anon.
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Cipriano de Rore’s classic madrigal, Ancor che col partire.
Tanndernac by Petrus Alamire.
Films by Michael Hamilton of Real Music Videos.
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