Concerts coming up:
Epitaph For A Green Lover: Music from the songbooks of Margaret of Austria
with Héloïse Bernard
Friday May 8th, 7.30pm: Early Voices Wales, St Illtud’s Church, Church Lane, CF61 1SG
September 12th, 3pm: St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh EH1 1LG
September 26th, 7.30pm: Banbury Early Music Festival
October 10th, 7.30pm: Crowborough Arts
October 11th, 3pm: Folkestone Early Music
A CD launch concert tour with Héloïse Bernard presents Epitaph for a Green Lover, celebrating the remarkable life of Margaret of Austria, one of the 16th century’s greatest patrons of the arts. The programme brings her world to life through music from manuscripts connected to her court. Margaret loved dancing and singing, but above all she adored her green parrot. The title comes from the poignant chanson Soubz ce tumbel, with a tragic text by her court poet Jean Lemaire, from Epitaphe de l’Amant Vert. Performed on Renaissance viols with rebec, pipes, and drums, the programme presents songs and instrumental music in a vivid musical story.
A really enchanting and uplifting evening
a joyous feast of melancholy!
Somewhere between perfect and sublime
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Our new recording
Epitaph for a Green Lover:
Music from the song books of Margaret of Austria with Héloïse Bernard
Tracks from the new recording are being released monthly by CRD Records . Find them here.
We are very grateful to have been awarded generous grants from The Continuo Foundation, Angel Early Music and The Marchus Trust who have made the recording possible.
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Inn Stetter Hut
To listen click here
Inn Stetter Hut
Sixteenth-century viol music for the richest man in the world Volume II
with James Gilchrist
If you would like to buy the CD please email linarolconsort@gmail.com.
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La La Hö Hö can be bought direct from us, please click here
Both CDs are published by the Inventa label of Resonus.
“The performances on this disc are outstanding, and the soundworld is seductive and delightful.” For the full review of our debut CD La La Hö Hö from Planet Hugill click here
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Epitaph for a Green Lover:
Music from the song books of Margaret of Austria with Héloïse Bernard
At the end of January 2024 we made a recording of our popular programme, Epitaph for a Green Lover, with award winning producer Adrian Hunter.
Here is a video of Soubz ce tumbel the title track of the recording
Recorded at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, January 2022. by The Real Music Video Company
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