"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

09 March 2024

The Oyster Months Notebook, Revised March 2024


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 

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