The Oyster Months Notebook, Revised

As we move from the reign of the Holly King to that of the Oak King, 'tis time to shelve the dirges of The Oyster Months until September.

A Spring Morning

The Spring comes in with all her hues and smells,

In freshness breathing over hills and dells;

O’er woods where May her gorgeous drapery flings,

And meads washed fragrant by their laughing springs.

Fresh are new opened flowers, untouched and free

From the bold rifling of the amorous bee.

The happy time of singing birds is come,

And Love’s lone pilgrimage now finds a home;

Among the mossy oaks now coos the dove,

And the hoarse crow finds softer notes for love.

The foxes play around their dens, and bark

In joy’s excess, ’mid woodland shadows dark.

The flowers join lips below; the leaves above;

And every sound that meets the ear is Love.

John Clare

REVISED March 2024 ...

A Medieval Tapestry: Instrumental and Vocal Music from the 12th through 14th Centuries

Folger Consort

Alpine Airs: Music of Switzerland, 13th-16th Centuries

Folger Consort

For Lute and Bass Viol: A Recital of 16th Century Music from Italy, France, and England

Geneva Baroque Duo

Lawes: Sonatas for Violin, Bass Viol, and Organ

London Baroque

William Byrd: Complete Consort Music

Phantasm

Sweelinck & the Art of Variation

Camerata Trajectina

Ernst Gottlieb Baron: The Lute at the Court of Frederick the Great

Ensemble Barocco Sans Souci

Telemann: The Chameleon

Bergem Barokk

Vocal Music: 13th Century Motets

I Ciarlatani

Gace Brule: Songs

Oliphant

Herz, Prich!: Medieval German Music

Oliphant

Visee: Pieces Pour Theorbe & Guitar

Xavier Diaz-Latorre

Giovanni Antonio Terzi: Lute Music

Florent Marie

Jenkins: Fantasies Pavans & Airs in Four Parts

The Spirit of Gambo 

Strings Attached: The Voice of Kannel

Anna-Liisa Eller - 

Orlando Gibbons: Fantasias & The Cries of London

Fretwork

Christopher Simpson: Ayres & Graces

Chelys Consort of Viols 

Lute Music of the Renaissance from the Schele Manuscript, 1619

Joachim Held

In Praise Of St. Columba: The Sound World of the Celtic Church

The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Ludwig Senfl: Im Maien

Fretwork

Canzoni e Danze

Piffaro

With Dances & Delight

Estampie 

Con Gratia, et Maniera

Galatea

Waytes: English Music for a Renaissance Band

Piffaro

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Vestiva

Lux Musicae London, Mirjam-Luise Münzel, Aileen Henry, Toby Carr

The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts: Flemish Polyphonic Treasures

Capilla Flamenca

Sacred & Secular Music from Renaissance Germany

Ciaramella Instrumental and Vocal Ensemble

Tuba Polyphonics II: Sweelinck 

Hidehiro Fujita

REVISED September 2023 ... 

Vox Cosmica

Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen and Hirundo Maris 

Renaissance Music for Recorder: Netherlands

Wiener Blockflötenensemble

Telemann: Sonate a Flauto Solo

Lorenzo Cavasanti

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello: Parthias and Sinphonias for Solo Gallichone

Davide Rebuffa

Fasch: Quartets and Concertos

Ensemble Marsyas

Charles Mouton

Anders Ericson

Neusidler: Lute Music

Yavor Genov 

William Lawes: Consort Sets in Five & Six Parts

Jordi Savall & Hesperion

Van Den Hove: Florida, Pavanas, Fantasias and Dances for Lute

Massimo Marchese

Lawes: Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol

Richard Boothby

Carl Friedrich Abel: Sentimental Journey

Paolo Pandolfo 

Graduel d'Alienor de Bretagne

Vox Clamantis

The Birth of the Violin

Le Miroir De Musique and Baptiste Romain

REVISED March 2023 ...

Finger: The Complete Music For Viola Da Gamba Solo

Ensemble Tourbillon 

Hameln Anno 1284: Medieval Flute Music On The Trail Of The Pied Piper

Norbert Rodenkirchen

REVISED December 2022 ...

Nicola Matteis: Most ravishing things (Music from the Books of Ayres)

Theatrum Affectuum

The Art of Resonance: Archlute & Theorbo Music of the Italian Seicento

Luca Pianca

Figures of Harmony: Songs of Codex Chantilly c. 1390

Ferrara Ensemble and Crawford Young

Schmelzer: Violin Sonatas

Gunar Letzbor & Ars Antiqua Austria

Zelenka: Sonates pour Deux Hautbois et Basson

Ensemble Zefiro

La Bella Minuta: Florid Songs for Cornetto, ca.1600

Liuwe Tamminga & Bruce Dickey

Brade, G. Gabrieli & Scheidt: Tuba mirum

Les Sacqueboutiers and Renaud Delaigue

REVISED October 2022 ...

A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Lute & Ud

August Denhard and Münir Nurettin Beken 

Notker Balbulus: Sequnezen, Tropen & Gregorianischer Choral aud dem Kloster St. Gallen

Ordo Virtutum and Stefan Morent 

Johann Rosenmüller in Exile

Acronym and Jesse Blumberg

Thomas Morley: Fantasies to Two Voices

Jonathan Dunford & Jérôme Chaboseau

Biber: Harmonia artificioso

Musica Antiqua Köln and Reinhard Goebel

Joseph Bodin De Boismortier: The Complete Opus 37 Trio Sonatas (1732) for Flute, Viola da Gamba and Chamber Organ

Flauti Diversi

Die Weisheit des Alters: Ars moriendi im Minnesang

Ensemble Für Frühe musik Augsburg

REVISED September 2022 ...

Philipp Friedrich Buchner: Plectrum Musicum

Parnassi Musici

Le Secret de Monsieur Marais

Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra

Telemann: Sonate for Oboe, Bassoon, and Continuo

Sans Souci

Johann Jakob Walther: Hortulus Chelicus

Sills, Dirst, Dirst, and Wang (no offense)

Thomas Lupo: Fantasia

Fretwork

Fürchtet Euch Nicht: Bassoons & Bombards Music from the German Baroque

Syntagma Amici, Vox Lumini

Johann Georg Weichenberger: Lute Works 

Joachim Held

REVISED March 2022 ...

Fantasia! Dialogue for One

Pauline Oostenrijk

February 2022 ...

Jacon van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-hof

Erik Bosgraaf

Marin Marais: Pieces de Viole de Cinq Livre

Jordi Savall, Ton Koopmann, Hopkinson Smith, Christophe Coin, Anne Gallet

The Cosmopolitan: Songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein

Ensemble Leones, Marc Lewis

Toys for Two: Dowland to California

Margaret Koll and Luca Pianca

REVISED January 2022 ...

Scheidt: Ludi Musici

L'Acheron, Francois Joubert-Caillet

Handel: The Complete Sonatas for Recorder

Marion Verbruggen, Ton Koopman and Jaap ter Linden

Buxtehude: Complete Chamber Music

Ton Koopman

Songs of Olden Times: Estonian Folk Hymns and Runic Songs

Heinavanker

Ockeghem: Requiem; Missa Mi-Mi; Missa Prolationum

Hilliard Ensemble

REVISED November 2021 ...

Masters of the Baroque Hurdy-Gurdy

Matthias Loibner

Weiss: Sonatas for Transverse Flute and Lute

Duo Inventio

Holborne: Pieces for Lute

Federico Marincola

THE ORIGINAL COLLECTION (Autumn 2020):

Holborne: Pavans and Galliards, 1599

The Consort of Musicke & The Guildhall Waits, Anthony Rooley & Trevor Jones

Purcell: Sonatas Of 3 Parts, 1683

Pavlo Beznosiuk, Rachel Podger, Christophe Coin, Christopher Hogwood

Telemann: Trio Sonatas

Erik Bosgraaf (recorder), Dmitry Sinkovksy (violin)

German Lute Music of the 18th Century

Alberto Crugnola