Firstly a belated happy 2019 from the Linarol Consort! We are looking forward to our upcoming residency at Hawkwood College from 28th January to 1st February. We will be joined by the wonderful soprano, Evelyn Tubb, in preparation for the 17th March concert of Italian music at the Leominster Early Music Weekend with Border Voices [...]
Richard Jones is working on a new bass viol for David Hatcher which, though based on the original Linarol tenor, has a body size of the Ciciliano bass housed in the Kunst Historische Museum, Vienna (SAM.72). It will therefore have a smaller body than Richard's usual bass viols but with a long string length. Here [...]
A few weeks ago Mike Hamilton made video of us playing Tanndernac, by Petrus Alamire which you can see either on Mike’s Vimeo channel or YouTube. Do have a look at Mike’s channel with its wonderfully diverse range of musical video clips. Tanndernac or Tandernaken, al op den Rijn comes from an international hit of […]
At the end of our busy day posing with Mr P we went to RGS Worcester where Michael Hamilton captured us playing Cipriano de Rore’s classic madrigal, Ancor che col partire. Mr P came with us and took a selection of action shots. Please have a look at the video either on Mike's Vimeo page or on YouTube [...]
It's hard to believe how cold it was on that day in February when Mr Anthony Pearson, aka Dank Spangle did our first Linarol Consort photoshoot. Wrapped in coats, scarves, hats and gloves we posed on Worcester Racecourse. Mr P dared us not to move for his signature stereographic shots by his favourite tree. For more [...]
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