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Performing early music–say, works from the 12th through 15th centuries–is a kind of time travel that often involves imagination as much as solid scholarship. We
Walter Frye was one of the bright lights among composers associated with the Burgundian court of Charles the Bold (1467-77). On the basis of this
The Icelandic Edda consists of two 13th-century books–the Prose, or “Younger” Edda, and the Poetic (“Elder”) Edda. Within the pages of these remarkable volumes is
If asked what common thread exists between Arcangelo Corelli, Francesco Bonporti, Handel, and Johannes Schenck, it’s unlikely that anyone would answer that all were passing
It’s unlikely that you’ll ever hear a harpsichord that’s more brilliantly colored, vibrant, and full-bodied than the two-manual instrument that Naoki Kitaya uses to record
English Renaissance music completists, where are you? Here’s the perfect stump-your-local-musicologist recording, a setting of the well-known Lamentations of Jeremiah texts by a 15th-century composer
The makers of this recording begin by asking the question “What is it that makes English Baroque music English?” To help answer this, the performers–a
