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Every now and then, a CD is released that knocks one’s reviewing socks off with its combined originality of repertoire and quality of musical performance...the music dances, muses and mourns... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Editor's Choice
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If you’re secretly after ‘smooth baroque’ but too embarrassed to click on that playlist, this album is your top-drawer, face-saving solution. If you’re interested in a world in which the viola... —
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Tobias Hume was a professional soldier and a 'gentleman' (read amateur) composer, and virtuoso of the bass viol. His Musicall Humors (1605), a large collection of solo pieces, is the first publication... —
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Captain Hume's Journey to India
Philippe Pierlot (viol), Dhruba Ghosh (sarangi), Nitiranjan Biswas (tabla), Roselyne Simpelaere (tampura)
the encounter between different traditions bears curiously delicious fruit, and even if you remain to be persuaded by this trans-continental fantasy, Pierlot’s performances of Tobias Hume’s... —
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A Musicall Dreame
Michael Chance (countertenor), David Cordier (countertenor), Erin Headley (viol), Stephen Stubbs (lute), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)
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Marais Meets Corelli
Jakob Rattinger (viola da gamba) & Lina Tur Bonet (violin)
Ensemble musica narrans
We are presented with a fictitious competition between viol and violin – frets versus fingers, so to speak. Rattinger on the viol begins with vigour…Tur Bonet on the violin then steps up to... —
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Special offer. Dreames & Imaginations - Poeticall Musicke to be sung to the Lyra viol (Music from around 1600)
Anna-Lena Elbert (soprano), Evangelina Mascardi (renaissance lute), Angélique Mauillon (harp), Friederike Heumann (viola da gamba, lyra viol)
The instrumentalists are perfect matches and the instrumental works are given excellent performances, which are subtle when needed, and explore the dynamic possibilities to good effect. —
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As It Fell on a Holie Eve - Music for an Elizabethan Christmas
Parthenia / A Consort of Viols, Julianne Baird (soloist), Beverly Au
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