It is a difficult time for all of us at the moment. Musicians are working hard to come up with new ways of making music to cheer us along in these socially distant times. Here is a fun way to keep up your viol consort playing whilst discovering satisfying new repertoire: Consort music minus one [...]
We arrived at Treowen on a very blustery Monday evening at the end of Storm Ciara for our three day recording session with Adrian Hunter: carrying 1 C treble, 2 G tenors, 4 D basses and 1 A bass, and a mountain of cake to keep us sustained. We set up our studio in the great [...]
It is just over a week ago that we were in the middle of an intensive three day rehearsal in the welcoming home of Annabel and Gerald of Angel Early Music. It was very useful to have uninterrupted days to work on the 35 selected pieces from the collection known as MS 18 810 that [...]
It's been a few weeks since we launched our appeal to help fund the first CD of music from MS 18-810 and it has been wonderfully encouraging to have received generous sponsorship and advance purchases of the recording. Thank you so much for supporting the project if you have done so, or if you are [...]
We've been busy at Linarol Consort HQ in preparation for the recording of our first CD - La La Hö Hö - named after a jolly piece by Isaac which will feature on the disk. We'll be recording about 30 superb instrumental pieces from Ms 18-810 in February at Treowen House in Monmouthshire, with the [...]
