Photo a friend sent me of Wolf Shilkret (Schildkraut, ~1866-1925), #Klezmer violinist and father of Victor Records notable Nat Shilkret #violinist#fiddler#MusicHistory
In Tudor and Stuart times, gifts were given at New Year rather than at Christmas.
Here is a musical New Year's Gift. It's an anonymous 17th Century dance of that name from Thomas Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, or Masque of Heroes, 1619.
From BL Add. 10444
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin
I...I think I've finally finished it :blobfox_surprised:
I put a (very) rough draft of this up a while ago, hoping to get a final draft out within a week or two, but I think it's taken me at least a month :psyduck_sweat:
Still, it's done! :shiba_excited: A quartet version of Kokiri Forest! :furret_excited: Weeeeee :zerotwo_excited:
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