The album “The Lion’s Ear” which contains this track is a tribute to Pope Leo X (Giovanni de’ Medici, 1475-1521), a rare and extraordinary patron of music as well as himself a composer and musician. It is also the outcome of La Morra’s collaboration with Anthony M. Cummings, eminent scholar of Renaissance music, author of […]
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In his essay for Early Music America, Christopher Macklin notes that he has been “most struck by the importance of music and its power to define and maintain those capillaries of nourishing connection, far more than I have by any dirges or fears of collapse.”
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I loved recording this piece and this album – Restless Heart – making music with others is such a privilege, and one of the saddest things about the pandemic is that, at least for now, we have to play alone. I have lost three concerts, four full-day recorder workshops, and thousands of dollars of income
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A fantastic group and a super dramatic piece! I’m always in awe of Ensemble Pygmalion‘s choir, and the intense shapes they manage to get together. If you can’t make it to Versailles, other good places to listen to this are lying down with your eyes closed or walking outside on a clear night. Unfortunately, Pichon
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Stephen Rose challenges contemporary critical views that de-emphasize the role of the composer by showing that performers and composers were understood as occupying two separate spheres, blurring the line of authorial primacy.
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