Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe – The Majestic
Marin Marais, Jean Desfontaines, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Sébastien Le Camus… a few airs sérieux, a few drinking songs and the majesty of the bass viol.A programme …
Concert-biography
Gilles de Bins – Père de Joyeuseté
Let us follow the secret loves of the knight and his sweet lady, discovering medieval courtly lyric. A ballad in the company of Christine de …
Captain Tobias Hume – The Great Soldier
The Great Soldier The incredible life of an English soldier who revolutionised the history of the viola da gamba.Through his writings, a few poems and …
Diego Ortiz – El Toledano
A journey into the radiant and flourishing Spain of the Golden Age. A dialogue between the virtuoso instrumental music of the greatest Spanish viol player …
Claudio Monteverdi – Il canto alla viola da gamba
Claudio Monteverdi is the father of modernity in music. He did not merely invent opera; he was quite simply the pioneer of the expression of …
Amours Mercy
Gilles Binchois / Johannes Ockeghem A recording programme around G. Binchois and J. Ockeghem: the story of a Burgundian master and his Flemish pupil. (the …
Jean de La Fontaine – A Life of Impertinence!
La Fontaine and music: the fable could be that of a missed encounter. While so many writers of his time knew how to build close …
Johannes Ockeghem – Vray Trésorier de Musique
The complete set of the twenty songs for three and four voices by Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497). This composer from Hainaut, like his master Gilles Binchois, …
Lohoys & Hobreau – The Business of Musicke
Two enterprising musicians in 16th-century AntwerpAntwerp 1541, two French musicians, Georges Lohoys and Jean Hobreau – nicknamed Petit Jean – went into partnership to be …
Heinrich Isaac – A Fleming in Florence
Born around 1450, probably on the border between Flanders and Brabant, Heinrich Isaac achieved considerable fame as a composer in the Renaissance, surpassed only by …