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 [...]
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Hawkwood residency January 2022
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 [...]
Recording songs from the Fugger Manuscript
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 [...]
Josquin 500 Festival
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 [...]
La Nouvelle Musique! Music for viols from the court of Philip the Fair
The following post was written by David Hatcher to accompany the Linarol Consort's recorded concert for the Barber Institute of Fine Arts which will be premiered at 1pm on 12th February 2021. The YouTube link will be on the Barber Concerts website. The Burgundian court at the end of the 15th century By the time [...]