Beo

Charles Nichols is a contemporary American composer, violinist, and computer music researcher. This is an album of his superb works for string quartet. The Beo String Quartet delights in playing works that push the boundaries.

«A vederlo pareva morto, ma non dev'essere ancora morto per bene» dice il Falco alla Fata Turchina nel romanzo di Collodi. Oggi Pinocchio è un quarantenne schizofrenico che vive insieme alla moglie e alla figlia adottiva in una periferia della Toscana. Tutti lo conoscono come Beo, da scarabeo. Stercorario, per la precisione. Il suo Paese dei Balocchi è il dancing della locale Casa del popolo, che frequenta il sabato sera insieme all'amico Luciano. Prova a moltiplicare le monete con il Gratta e vinci e i suoi piedi non si bruciano, ma soffrono di psoriasi, interpretato come segno di disfacimento imminente. Vittima di allucinazioni, è ossessionato in particolare dai marziani, ritenuti responsabili del rapimento del padre, scomparso da tempo. Per scongiurare le disgrazie sempre pronte a piovergli addosso, Beo impone a se stesso una miriade di regole, pratiche e cerimoniali che lo rendono legnoso e burattinesco..

Anthems in Eden is a 1969 album by Shirley and Dolly Collins, with the Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow. The album originally consisted of a 28-minute set of folk songs plus seven other individual pieces performed by the same group. The musical arrangements for these eight pieces included early music instruments, such as viols, recorders, sackbuts and crumhorns. In 1976, six new songs were recorded with a different assortment of accompanists, to replace the original seven individual songs. This 1976 album consisting of the 28-minute set plus the six new songs was released by Harvest Records under the title Amaranth. Subsequent releases have combined all fourteen pieces under the original title, Anthems in Eden.

Shirley & Dolly Collins are a renowned English folk duo from Sussex consisting of sisters Shirley Collins and Dolly Collins. Their seminal recording is considered by many to be 'Anthems in Eden', released in 1969. It featured a suite of songs centred on the changes in rural England brought about by the First World War. Dolly Collins created arrangements featuring David Munrow and various other players from his Early Music Consort of London. Later albums include Love, Death and the Lady (1970), Amaranth (1976), For as Many as Will (1978), Harking Back (1979), and Snapshots Fledg'ling (2006). A compedium album of their early work, The Harvest Years, was released in 2008.

Shirley & Dolly Collins are a renowned English folk duo from Sussex consisting of sisters Shirley Collins and Dolly Collins. Their seminal recording is considered by many to be 'Anthems in Eden', released in 1969. It featured a suite of songs centred on the changes in rural England brought about by the First World War. Dolly Collins created arrangements featuring David Munrow and various other players from his Early Music Consort of London. Later albums include Love, Death and the Lady (1970), Amaranth (1976), For as Many as Will (1978), Harking Back (1979), and Snapshots Fledg'ling (2006). A compedium album of their early work, The Harvest Years, was released in 2008.

Le parcours de Nicholas Ludford (ca. 1490-1557), autrement orthographié Nycolace Ludfoorthe, ne fait aujourd’hui aucun mystère. Ce fils d’un musicien de la Fraternité de St Nicholas était destiné dès le plus jeune âge à une belle carrière dans la musique. Contrairement à d’autres musiciens de son temps partis étoffer leur curriculum vitae en de lointaines contrées, notre compositeur fait son chemin dans le périmètre très restreint de Westminster, centre politique et ecclésiastique de Londres et de l’Angleterre à la Renaissance. Si Nicholas Ludford bénéficie aujourd’hui d’un regain d’intérêt, notamment grâce aux travaux et aux enregistrements de David Skinner, certaines de ses œuvres restent encore à découvrir.

Created in 2019, the ensemble takes its name from an ideal of Sardinian music. The quintina is this fifth voice produced, without being sung, by the harmonics of singers in a state of grace. This musical and aesthetic summit is a living heritage of a European culture whose origins date back to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Gathered around Jérémie Couleau, the musicians of La Quintina bring certain forgotten polyphonies to life without limiting themselves in time or space.