Despite its 8.5 by 12 centimetres, the Leuven Chansonnier is a huge find. Director Bart Demuyt is thrilled with the fifteenth-century songbook recently discovered by his Alamire Foundation. “It’s been a century since the last time such an important manuscript surfaced in our field.”
Unique Songbook Discovered: “Like Finding Twelve New Drawings by Rubens” Read More »
As a scholar and musician, David Wulstan, who has died aged 80, established a style of performing Tudor polyphonic music that broke new ground in the 1970s, and has now become mainstream.
David Wulstan Obituary Read More »
I’m very interested in reaching out to audiences and bringing new listeners to early music, so I’m always thrilled to do something a little different.
Center Stage, June 2017: Kathryn Mueller Read More »
Lutenist Ronn McFarlane and his colleagues will present “Will You Walk the Woods So Wild,” a program of John Dowland and William Byrd exploring the intersections between the folk music and art music of England, Scotland, and Wales, at the Boston Early Music Festival on June 12.
McFarlane: Rocking With Ayreheart At BEMF Read More »
Music from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales is taken, for the most part, from published sources in the 18th and early 19th centuries and expertly played by Montreal-based Ensemble La Cigale on appropriate instruments in what was called, even then, “the Scots drawing room style.”
Montreal Ensemble Relishes Celtic Baroque Music Read More »
