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 just had two great days playing the most wonderful music at Sophie's Barn near Banbury. We spent the first day rehearsing Josquin in preparation for our concert on 14th August with Héloïse Bernard. And what a marvellous composer he is - each piece is a pleasure to play and listen to. a selection [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Linarol Consort 