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 [...]
At the end of our busy day posing with Mr P we went to RGS Worcester where Michael Hamilton captured us playing Cipriano de Rore’s classic madrigal, Ancor che col partire. Mr P came with us and took a selection of action shots. Please have a look at the video either on Mike's Vimeo page or on YouTube [...]
It's hard to believe how cold it was on that day in February when Mr Anthony Pearson, aka Dank Spangle did our first Linarol Consort photoshoot. Wrapped in coats, scarves, hats and gloves we posed on Worcester Racecourse. Mr P dared us not to move for his signature stereographic shots by his favourite tree. For more [...]
Welcome to our first blog post. We are the Linarol Consort of Viols. The Consort takes its name from the maker of the original viol on which the instruments they play are modelled: all are copies of The Francesco Linarol tenor viol (c 1540) the only surviving viol by the Venetian maker Francesco Linarol, [...]
