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News and events
16th Century German Love Songs with James Gilchrist – concerts in March 2023
We’re delighted to announce dates for our CD launch tour of ‘Inn Stetter Hut’- 16th Century German Love Songs with James Gilchrist.
Tuesday 7th March, 7.30pm: Holywell Music Room, Oxford OX1 3SD 5.30pm Pre-concert talk Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall, OX14AR Tickets from Ticketsource
Thursday 9th March, 7.30pm: Downing Place URC, Cambridge CB2 3EL . Tickets from Cambridge Early Music
Friday 10th March, 7.30pm: The Priory, Leominster HR6 8EQ Tickets from Courtyard box office
Friday 17th March, 7.00pm: King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1YX Tickets from Music at King Charles
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.
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Media
Recorded at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking during our residency in January 2022.
Soubz ce tumbel – Pierre de la Rue? (cl.1452-1518)
La Spagna – Johann Ghiselin [Verbonnet] (fl.1491-1507)
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.
Filmed at Treowen House February 2020:
Las Rauschen by Isaac, from Real Music Videos on Vimeo.
Tous Les Regres by de la Rue, from Real Music Videos on Vimeo.
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Cipriano de Rore’s classic madrigal, Ancor che col partire.