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Duo LiveOak’s Piva: Renaissance Song of Italy and Spain, and Woman of the Water: Songs by Frank Wallace
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)
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
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
Ensemble Alcatraz’ Cantigas de Amigo
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
The Dufay Collective’s Music for Alfonso the Wise
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
(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
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
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
Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen’s Rímur
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
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations
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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