Tag Archives: early music

Duo LiveOak’s Piva: Renaissance Song of Italy and Spain, and Woman of the Water: Songs by Frank Wallace

Posted on 17th May 2023 by Diverse Voices

John Benninghouse wrote this review. Duo LiveOak consists of Nancy Knowles and Frank Wallace. Knowles brings her voice and poetry while Wallace contributes his guitar and lute plus his voice. And he is a composer to boot. As contemporary classical … Continue reading →

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Ilkka Heinonen Trio’s Lohtu (Solace)

Posted on 11th March 2021 by Gary Whitehouse

Finnish musician and composer Ilkka Heinonen plays the jouhikko, a bowed version of the kantele, a box lyre or zither common in Karelian dance music of Finland and Russia. In this album Lohtu (Solace) he has made a recording that … Continue reading →

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The Tallis Scholars Sing Josquin

Posted on 27th July 2018 by Robert

Josquin des Pres (1450?-1521) was born Josquin Lebloitte, either in Hainault (modern Belgium) or in France. (The “des Pres” was a nickname, as they understood such things in the fifteenth century.) He seems to have been a choirboy at Saint-Quentin … Continue reading →

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Ensemble Alcatraz’ Cantigas de Amigo

Posted on 5th April 2018 by Diverse Voices

This review was written by Brendan Foreman for a previous incarnation of GMR. I’m beginning to suspect that eventually Dorian will have released a version of every single piece of Iberian medieval music still extant. This is by all means … Continue reading →

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The Dufay Collective’s Music for Alfonso the Wise

Posted on 5th April 2018 by Robert

Alfonso X, “el Sabio” (“the Wise”), was king of Castile and Leon from 1252 to 1284, a time when those realms were an outpost of European culture on a peninsula under the domination of the Muslim Moors. He was known … Continue reading →

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The Ivory Consort’s Music from the Land of Three Faiths

Posted on 22nd July 2017 by Robert

(This review was written by Leonora Rose for a previous incarnation of the Green Man Review.) In 711 AD, Spain was conquered by the Muslims, who managed to make of it one of the few places in which the three … Continue reading →

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The Tallis Scholars’ The Tallis Scholars Sing Josqin

Posted on 22nd July 2017 by Robert

Josqin des Pres (1450?-1521) was born Josqin Lebloitte, either in Hainault (modern Belgium) or in France. (The “des Pres” was a nickname, as they understood such things in the fifteenth century.) He seems to have been a choirboy at Saint-Quentin … Continue reading →

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Frank Wallace’s Delphín

Posted on 19th July 2017 by Robert

In “classical” music, recent decades have witnessed a string of revivals, from Wanda Landowska’s researches and stellar performances of music for the harpsichord and Vladimir Horowitz’s performances of Scarlatti through the burgeoning interest in plainsong and chant (including the disco … Continue reading →

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Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen’s Rímur

Posted on 22nd April 2017 by Robert

My first exposure to rímur came about when a recording by the Icelandic performer Steindór Andersen crossed my desk. Having wrapped my head around the forms and sounds in Andersen’s renderings of a traditional Icelandic form with strong foundations in … Continue reading →

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Posted on 3rd April 2017 by Robert

There is a place in the history of musical performance where that history becomes legend. This is pertinent here because we are talking about one of those legends, Glenn Gould performing J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. (There are other legendary … Continue reading →

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