http://www.royalwindmusic.org/media/videos/1/


The Royal Wind Music, led by Paul Leenhouts. There are many wonderful videos of Renaissance recorder music.

Amherst Winter Workshop II
The first piece we worked on in Eric's class was an In Nomine (Byrd, I think). Eric then noted there were a few groans from the students. I don't understand why, and I didn't know anything about this particular genre, so I have just looked it up on wikipedia. 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Nomine


I will try to find out what the story is with In Nomines and report back.

Amherst Winter Workshop I
I finally was able to look at the music we played during the early morning class, led by Eric Haas. The class dealt with English Fantasias, and we played several---although one of the composers, Ferrabosco II, wasn't English. Oh well. It was gorgeous music, with every part weaving in and out of the others. During each of the three classes, we practiced one or two pieces, because the rhythms and polyphony were hard to get. And I don't think we really nailed the pieces, except for the last one we tried, which was by William Byrd, and it was stunning: a psalm for six voices called "Unto the hills mine eyes I lift." (AATTBB). You can find the score here:


Unto the hills mine eyes I lift

More to follow...

That's me (Steffi) on the left, and 

Eric Haas on the right, with other 

members of the class.

I returned last night from the Amherst Early Music Workshop in Philadelphia. It is an amazing immersion in early music, and I hope to write about the classes, performers and students very soon. Meanwhile, here is the opening page of Petrucci's Odhecaton, which you can read about in this wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonice_Musices_Odhecaton

Photos from our recital at Borders in December 2010.

Left to right: Paul Sweeny, Richard Rand, Amalia Weinberg,
Marion DaGrossa, Stefanie Green, Chad Hagstrom

Front row, left to right: Richard Rand, Marion DaGrossa,
Stefanie Green, Chad Hadstrom, Barbara Kaufman.
Back row: Amalia Weinberg, Anne Plaine, Joyce Munchauer.

Here's a link to a video, part of a collection of dances. This one is a pavane.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/musdivid/039s.mov

There appear to be about 80 of these videos. They start with Renaissance dances, and continue through ragtime. They are very beautifully done---both simple and elegant.

Frans Bruggen (!)
Sammartini: Concerto for descant recorder. Andre Rieu, conductor

I don't know when this was recorded, but I will investigate.

Henry VIII, recorder player. (See comment in previous post.)