Diego Ortiz – El Arte de las Glosas
Diego Ortiz is generally well known to instrumentalists interested in early repertoires thanks to his Tratado de las Glosas, published in 1553, in which he …
Hic Zeno – Marguerite Yourcenar
Based on Marguerite Yourcenar’s L’Œuvre au Noir (published in English as The Abyss): “Voyez, continua Zénon. Par-delà ce village, d’autres villages, par-delà cette abbaye, d’autres …
Nicolas de Grigny – Genius of the French Organ
Nicolas de Grigny (1672 – 1703) shared the fate of many brilliant artists who left too soon. The simplicity of his known existence might conceal …
Imperfect Consonances – Leonel & Dunstable
Gregorian chant, or monodic chant, is without doubt the pillar upon which the first traces of written music in the West were conceived. For centuries, …
Catherine de Medici: Power and Music
In 1554, at the Louvre, the Valois court welcomed, alongside ballet master Pompeo Diobono, a large group of musicians — among them violinists who, wither …
Tientos at the Spanish Court
In 16th-century Spain, keyboard music played a major role, both at court and in church. The most influential musician and composer of the period is …