Sing We And Chant It

Last week saw myself and 4 other singers of Ensemble Jacques Moderne fa-la-lahing our way through some French, English, Italian and German Renaissance madrigals, in some exquisite parts of the Loire Region. 

Chateau de la Chatonniere

Les Douves - Onzain

Remind me again why I left...?

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It's All Go!

Only a few weeks after re-locating to The Netherlands, I was back in the South of France for another edition of 'From Rosy Bowers' - a plethora of English baroque music with Le Petit Ensemble, performed in the ancient Cistercian Abbaye of Villelongue, in the Longuedoc. A marvellous place with some marvellous musicians!

But no rest for the wicked - some late Renaissance madrigals with Ensemble Jacques Moderne are calling my name...

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Hither This Way, This Way Bend...

... to the gorgeous theatre music of Mr Henry Purcell.  The tour of 'King Arthur' with Ensemble Jacques Moderne was (apart from everyone's usual January sniffles) a resounding success.  I have to admit that it was also vastly diverting to be amongst a load of French folk singing about how marvellous Britain is.  And singing it exquisitely, too, I have to add!

salle gaveau, paris

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