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 [...]
David's edition of the 86 piece manuscript of consort music by leading 16th century composers such as Senfl, Isaac, Josquin and Pierre de la Rue has recently been published. It is available from Jacks, Pipes and Hammers (contact ruth@recordermail.co.uk, tel.01422 882751) or directly from David via www.dhatcher.co.uk The edition's publication coincided with the Linarol Consort's two [...]
For our concerts in April at Worcester Early Music Festival, St Martin's in the Cornmarket, Sunday 29th April at 3pm and at St Michael's Church, Discoed on Thursday 19th April at 7.30pm we have great pleasure in being joined by tenor Mathew Pochin. Below is some background into the songs we will be performing with Matthew. [...]
Some musings by David about the origins of the instruments. The Linarol Consort came into existence in order to explore the soundscape of a unique viol. Known by the dry, curatorial “SAM66”, this remarkable instrument, a tenor viol made in Venice in about 1540, is the sole surviving viol of the great Venetian luthier Francesco [...]
Here's a preview of part of the programme notes for our concerts in April. For whom manuscript 18 810 was created is not known, but soon after its completion it was in the large library of the most wealthy and influential of German merchants of the 16th century, the Fuggers of Augsburg, with Jacob Fugger [...]
The Linarol Consort 