Early Music

[jazzy_dave]

I am looking forward to travelling down with Phil next Tuesday as we both have a love of early classical music.So on our sojourn to Brighton i shall be bringing two CD's - the one by Concordia with works by Christopher Tye, Thomas Tallis, William Lawes, and others and another CD I found in a charity shop by Fretwork playing  the music of Thomas Tomkins "These Distracted Times"  (Obsidian).




Tomkin's music was written during the troubling times of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell to which he wrote a pavan shortly after Charles I execution  This is a collection of his church and chamber music.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I'm a 17th century specialist concentrating on the Civil Wars so you are speaking my language here! :o)

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

This is something i was in discussion with my colleague Phil the other day as he commented that as we drive down to Brighton we shall be learning at the same time. Talking of the Cromwell period i still have yet to read the Mantel novel "Wolf Hall" found in pristine condition in a Faversham charity shop for fifty pence.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It's a very well crafted book as is the sequel: 'Bring up the Bodies'. The history is solid too, which is a rarity in historical fiction.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I shall look forward to reading it then . it depends when of course.