Medieval ensemble Trobár celebrates women in 14th and 15th c. song, centered on poet Christine de Pizan and her musical circles, including (male) composers who are now famous, obscure or anonymous. It’s a “he said/she said” dialogue on love, equality, and courtly virtues.
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Countless works, preserved only in partbooks, remain unheard to modern ears because one or more of the books are lost. Now Jacob Obrecht’s Mass on the ‘Scaramella’ tune has been completed with best-guess scholarship and recorded by the outstanding Binchois Consort.
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REMA, the European Early Music Network, has launched a survey to learn how the global early-music sector has adapted and evolved in 2024, from finances to programming. Although most REMA members are in Europe, some are North American-based, and the survey is open to everyone in the field and responses are anonymous.
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The Butter Quartet, who met as students at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, released their debut recording with ‘Scintilla: Early Italian String Quartets.’ In buoyant, impeccable playing, they capture the galant spirit of music by Pugnani, Boccherini, Lombardini Sirmen, and Giardini. Excellent performances of attractive, varied repertoire.
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With a lively writing style, Katherine Butler Schofield’s ‘Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748-1858’ offers a deeply researched study of early Hindustani musical practices in courtly and colonial settings. The era is one of sociopolitical transition during the century of the powerful British East India Company’s conquest of India.
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