Du Fay (left) beside a portative organ, with Gilles Binchois (right) holding a small harp in a miniature from before 1451 By Master of the Missal of Paul Beye Music from the early fifteenth-century: a musical moment VOICES Tutor: Don Greig Location: Morley Green Club, Wilmslow Reviewer: Hugh Cherry Music from the early 15th century – ‘A Musical Moment’ Eighteen … Continue reading Workshop Review – 24 March 2018
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Workshop Review – 18 November 2017
Detail from a Russian deesis icon depicting Christ Enthroned with Saints, 1460-1470 Explore the chant of the Slavic Orthodox world VOICES Tutor: Ivan Moody Chorley Village Hall, Alderley Edge Chant of the Slavic Orthodox world Reviewer: Clive TolleySome 23 people, coming from as far afield as London and Edinburgh, gathered at Chorley (Alderley Edge) on … Continue reading Workshop Review – 18 November 2017
Workshop Review – 16 September 2017
Polyphonic mass by Rogier in Museo Parroquial, Pastrana (photo by PMRMaeyaert - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) Philippe Rogier VOICES Tutor: Sally Dunkley Didsbury Baptist Church, Manchester Rogier, Sally Dunkley, Didsbury Baptist Church, 16th September An early music forum workshop should bring together experienced performers, directors and leaders, score-scholars, and aficionados of well-travelled and less-travelled … Continue reading Workshop Review – 16 September 2017
Workshop Review – 18 March 2017
Alternatively . . . Giovanni Gabrieli VOICES & INSTRUMENTS Tutor: Peter Syrus Location: Didsbury Baptist Church, Manchester Reviewer: Nick Eden Thirty five singers and 8 instrumentalists playing sackbuts, cornet and curtal met under the leadership of Peter Syrus to sing a selection of works by Giovanni Gabrieli. The careful and thoughtful selection of pieces, drawn … Continue reading Workshop Review – 18 March 2017
Workshop Review – 11 February 2017
Agony and Ecstasy: Music of the Song of Solomon & The Sibylline Prophecies VOICES Tutor: Alistair Dixon Location: University of Cumbria Chapel, Lancaster Reviewer: Ann Bond About 30 singers gathered at the University of Cumbria Chapel in Lancaster, for a day of Renaissance vocal music by Gesualdo, Lassus and others. At least that was what … Continue reading Workshop Review – 11 February 2017