Rehearsal at Sophie's Barn - lots of music to organise. 7 viols dropped off at the Holywell Music Room. We spent the first two days of March rehearsing for our upcoming tour of 'Inn Stetter Hut, music for the richest man in the world'. What a great programme it is: such variety and beauty; from [...]
We had a busy few weeks in May performing our Epitaph for a Green Lover programme with Héloïse Bernard, in Wales, Scotland and England. The tour would not have been possible without the generous support of the Continuo Foundation and many of our friends on the way. Sophie's Barn Chacombe Our Green Lover tour started [...]
Hawkwood - Centre for Future Thinking We have just had the privilege of spending the last five days at Hawkwood as artists in residence. Hawkwood is a beautiful estate set above Stroud in the Cotswolds, and is the most inspiring environment for creativity. Our residency was supported by Hawkwood and The Francis W Reckitt Arts [...]
From 26th to 29th October we recorded the second disk of music from Ms. 18 810. We had the pleasure to be joined by James Gilchrist singing the texted pieces and En-Ming Lin on tenor viol. After the weekend's success of the Crowdfunder appeal it was wonderful to be actually playing the music. We recorded [...]
We have been very busy over the last couple of months working on a project to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Josquin des Prez. At the end of March we were thrilled to hear that we had been successful in being awarded a grant by the new Continuo Foundation to help put [...]
The Linarol Consort 