I have Elicia Silverstein's album, The Dreams & Fables I Fashion, which I love but haven't listen to in some time. I came across this beautiful performance of Passacaglia for solo violin (1676), by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1706) and felt it worth sharing.
Today's video was one of the last things that we did before lockdown in March 2020... It was filmed in the Great Watching Chamber at Hampton Court Palace, while preparing a section on Elizabethan music for Historic Royal Palace's Futurelearn course on Tudor entertainment.
Augustine Bassano: Pavan
From Egerton MS 3665
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Tamsin Lewis: renaissance violin
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What meat eats the Spaniard?
An anonymous #Elizabethan#theatre#song about eating too much fish!
From Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards night-walke.
[Attributed to] #Middleton and #Dekker 1602.
Costume design for the allegorical figure of music, one of many figures from the 1585 Winter tournaments for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
(Pen, blue wash on white paper, Galleria degli Uffizi)
By Giuseppe Arcimboldo who died #onthisday in 1593.