"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

22 September 2025

The Oyster Months Notebook, Revised September 2025


'Tis Autumn.

Once again marking the glorious entrance of the reign of the Holly King by dusting off the dirges of The Oyster Months. 

Soon I shall gaze across a sea
of sun-begotten grain,
which my unflinching watch hath sealed
for harvest once again.

Walter de la Mare, from "The Scarecrow"

REVISED SEPTEMBER 2025

Fürchtet Euch Nicht: Bassoons & Bombards Music from the German Baroque
Syntagma Amici and Vox Luminis


Tobias Hume: Poeticall Musicke
Jordi Savall and Hesperion XX


Richard Jones: Chamber Airs for a Violin and Through Bass
The Beggar's Ensemble


The Muses Restor’d
Brecon Baroque and Rachel Podger


Diego Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas
Cocset Balestracci Les Basses Réunies


Giovanni Benedetto Platti: 6 Sonatas for Violoncello & Basso Continuo
Sebastian Hess and Axel Wolf


Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Recorder in the Low Countries
Erik Bosgraaf and Francesco Corti


Purcell/Dieupart: Suites for Recorder
Hugo Reyne and La Simphonie du Marais


Tombeaux: Remembrances
Michael Dücker and Johanna Seitz


De La Barre: Pièces pour la Flute Traversière
Stephen Preston, Jordi Savall, Blandine Verlet, Hopkinson Smith


Liber Tabulatura: Music from The 17th Century Braunsberg
Reversio


Philipp Friedrich Buchner: Plectrum Musicum
Pamassi Musici and Bavarian Chamber Orchestra


Byrd: Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds
Daniel-Ben Pienaar


Early Organ Music
Vibeke Astner


Esaias Reusner: Delitiae Testudinis
William Carter


The Mandolin in London
Artemandoline


Ottaviano Petrucci: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
Fretwork


In Spiritum: Music for Cello and Bandoneon
Bracalente Bonaventura and Bracalente Bonaventura


O Królach Polskich 
Canor Anticus


Flying Horse: Renaissance Music from the ML Lutebook
Elizabeth Kenny


New Old Albion: Music Around the Harp Consorts of William Lawes
Il Caleidoscopio Ensemble


Music for Viols: Purcell, Lawes, Locke, Jenkins
Fretwork


Polish Lute Music of the Renaissance
Joachim Held


Merry Melancholy: English Lute Music 16th Century
Joachim Held


Isaac: Ich muss dich lassen
Capilla Flamenca


Hacquart: Viol Suites, Op. 3
Guido Balestracci


Bach: Trio Sonaten (arr. for Clarinet, English Horn, and Bassoon)
Trio Lezard


Tomaso Albinoni: Complete Works for German Flute
Ensemble L'Apotheose


Lyra Sonora: Music for the 12 Course Lute
Anderson Ericson


Relish: Music for French Lute
Anderson Ericson


Christophe Tye: Consort Music-In Nomine
The Spirit of Gambo


Inner Chambers: Royal Court Music of Louis XIV
Les Ordinaires


Castles, Kirks, and Caves: Scottish Music of the 18th Century
Abby Newton


Matthew Locke: The Broken Consort
Peter Holman and The Parley of Instruments


The Punckes Delight: Golden Age Of English Music For Solo Viol
Jordi Savall


Contrabasso Vivace: Bottesini,Vanhal, Bock
Klaus Stoll & Gerhard Dzwiza


Recorder Music on Original Instruments: Parcham, van Eyck, Lœillet, Dieupart & Telemann
Frans Brüggen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt


A Hanseatic Festival -- German Renaissance Music
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble


A Dictionary of Renaissance and Medieval Instruments
Various Artists


A Lute by Sixtus Rauwulf
Jakob Lindberg


The Trio Sonata of 17th-Century Germany
London Baroque


Leonarda: Sonate a 1, 2, 3 e 4 Istromenti, Op. 16
Cappella Strumentale del Duomo di Novara


La Morte della Ragione
Il Giardino Armonico


Nicolas Vallet: Le Secret des Muses
Paul O'Dette 


Early Modern English Music: 1500-1550
Tasto Solo 


Graupner: Trio Sonatas
Members of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra


Tuba Polyphonics 2: "Sweelinck"
Hidehiro Fujita


Melchior Neusidler: Lute Music
Paul O'Dette


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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