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medieval music

  • More from the Stone Age of Early Music Performance

    Sep 16th, 2018 | By Dave Lewis
    Tags: Baroque music, Chamber music, Classical music, Concerto, early music, medieval music, The Early Music Show

    Back on June 26, 2017 I presented a Historic Radio Special on The Early Music Show, consisting of ‘early’ recordings of early music, beginning with the barely audible spectacle of a Handel oratorio captured on wax cylinders in 1888 to a formative solo disc of countertenor Alfred Deller singing a Thomas Morley tune, made around […]

  • Capella de Ministrers’ Travels Down the Silk Road

    Jun 10th, 2018 | By Dave Lewis
    Tags: Capella de Ministrers, Carles Magraner, CD Review, early music, Licanus Records, medieval music, World Music

    Looking at the discography listed on the website of Valencian early music ensemble Capella de Ministrers is an impressive thing indeed. I count no less than 56 titles there, and the group has managed that number of releases in a mere matter of 41 years. The one that hooked me in its re-release 13 years […]

  • A Tale of Two Vielles

    May 27th, 2018 | By Dave Lewis
    Tags: Alejandro Tonatiuh Hernández, Baptiste Romain, CD Review, Classical music, early music, Early Music Show, Enchiriadis Records, Le Miroir de Musique, medieval music, Ricercar Records, vielle

    On a special Labor Day edition of The Early Music Show broadcast back on September 4, 2017, I interviewed David McCormick, founder of the Charlottesville-based Early Music Access Project. The Project holds its annual fundraiser at Swannanoa Palace in Alton on Sunday, June 24 at 3 pm. This interview with David was my first chance […]

  • The Night of Saint Nicholas: A Medieval Liturgy for Advent

    Dec 14th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Arcana, CD Review, choral music, early music, Holiday music, I Cantori Gregoriani, La Reverdie, medieval music

    Performance practices change — even in the field of early music. In the early 1990s Anonymous 4 burst onto the scene, making medieval music sound vibrant and alive. Other ensembles built upon their success, each with their own take on the repertoire. “The Night of Saint Nicholas” was originally released in 1998. So how does […]

  • Beneath the Northern Star: How the Music of the Spheres Joined Forces with Western Art Music

    Aug 3rd, 2017 | By Dave Lewis
    Tags: CD Review, Dissolution of the monasteries, early music, Hyperion, John Dunstaple, Medieval England, medieval music, Orlando Consort, Polyphony, renassiance music, Sacred Music

    “Common practice” period music – basically Bach through Rachmaninoff – is so prevalent on classical radio that one might surmise that the smooth and consonant was the established rule in Western Art music from the very beginning. On the contrary, from the time music manuscripts reflect the practice of harmonizing Gregorian chant begins a painful, […]

  • Les Witches – Musical Europe at the Court of Christian IV

    Jan 25th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Alpha-Classics, CD Review, early music, Les Witches, medieval music

    Alpha’s reissue series continues with this landmark 2008 recording from Les Witches. The recording was built around a program of music that would have been heard by Danish king Christian IV around 1600. Christian IV was a patron of the arts, and his home Konge Af Denmark became a cultural center for Scandinavia. Les Witches […]

  • Machaut Orlando consort Hyperion

    Intimate music, intimate performance of Machaut

    Jan 13th, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, early music, Guillaume de Machaut, Hyperion, medieval music, Orlando Consort

    Guillaume de Machaut’s poem Le Voir Dit, written when he was in his sixties, recounts a love affair between himself and a young girl. Machaut included several pieces of music to help illustrate the text – a true multi-media medieval work of art. This is spare, yet intimate music. Machaut was acknowledged to be one […]

  • Stirling castle

    A Stirling Musical Discovery

    Sep 22nd, 2009 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Classical music, early music, medieval music, Music History, Stirling Castle

    It’s not hard to figure out how a work should go — you just follow the music (we’ll keep the discussion simple and leave interpretation out of the equation for now). But what if there’s no score to follow? That’s always the problem with music from the medieval and early renaissance. Sometimes there’s no music, […]

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    What is Classical Music? Part 2 – Medieval Mystery

    Jun 3rd, 2009 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: early music, medieval music, Programming, What is Classical Music?

    In part one I outlined some of the guidelines I personally use to select music to air on “Gamut.” And for the most part, that rule works pretty well. What is classical music? Primarily (IMHO) it’s music conceived, composed, arranged, and notated by a single person. OK, that’s pretty straightforward if you’re dealing with Beethoven, […]

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