The Society of Strange & Ancient Instruments at the Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester, England 2012-12-08 - broadcast on BBC Radio 3 "Early Music Show" HD stream FLAC


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Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert performed by The Society of Strange & Ancient Instruments, featuring everything from dulcimer and oud to nyckelharpa and Hardanger fiddle, recorded earlier this month at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Angels have played a part in human consciousness for as long as we can remember. Their roles in the life of mankind are various; they appear as guardians, counsellors, guides, judges, and interpreters and cross barriers of culture, language, religion and geography. Many are a force for good but there are also fallen angels, angels of death and others who are spirits of wrath, destruction, confusion and vengeance.

In this programme, The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments explores music associated with angels, the maverick and fallen as well as the divine and perfect. Playing some of the instruments that appear in descriptions and depictions of angels through the ages, as well as other strange and ethereal sounding instruments, we present traditional tunes, dances, songs and carols in a celebration of these heavenly and occasionally diabolical beings.

The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments
In the years around 1900, a group of well known musicians, calling themselves La Soci�t� des Instruments Anciens, gave a series of �historical performances� in Paris in which they presented an eclectic mix of original and arranged baroque music, played on a collection of what were then considered to be wildly exotic instruments; hurdy gurdy, viola d�amore, viola da gamba and harpsichord. Taking inspiration from these pioneering ancestors, The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments was founded in 2010 to explore, with similarly unusual instruments, a repertoire that ranges from bawdy ballads and earthy dances to high art music from the 18th century and before, as well as newly composed pieces. The members of The Society are all leaders in the field of early music with many years of performing and recording experience.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 "Early Music Show" 2012-12-23

Shame about the rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroled letter R!!

01 intro

02 [traditional] - Es sungen drei Engel/Alfonso X el Sabio - Cantiga 165: Nuin poder deste mundo/[traditional] - Blessed that be maid Marie

03 talk

04 Thoinot Arbeau - Belle qui tiens ma vie/Fran�ois Franc�ur - Rondeau

05 talk

06 [traditional] - Joseph and the angel/John Playford - Christmas cheer/John Playford - Doves vagary/

07 talk

08 [religious music] - A solis ortus cardine/[anonymous] - Angelus admonebit Abacue prophetam [The Play of Daniel]/Alfonso X el Sabio - Cantiga 131: En tamanna coita non pode seer

09 talk

10 Arcangelo Corelli - La Follia

11 talk

12 [traditional] - Devil stick the Minister/[traditional] - The Devil�s Dream/
Alfonso X el Sabio - Cantiga 115: Con seu ben sempre ven/[traditional] - Guillo, pran ton tamborin!/[traditional] - Pease brawle/[traditional] - Candlestick brawle

13 outro


Clara Sanabras...............voice, renaissance guitar, oud
Clare Salaman................hurdy gurdy, nyckelharpa, hardanger violin
Joy Smith....................harps, percussion
Peter McCarthy...............basses