Friday, 16 March 2018

Festive Fayre 1400-1800 (Musica Antiqua, Michael Uridge)


1993 | EAC LOG FLAC+CUE | 1CD + booklet | 368MB

This recording presents a selection of popular music spanning some 500 years, from the 14th to 18th centuries.

All the instruments used are replicas by modern craftsmen:
- recorders (Mediaeval, Renaissance & Baroque recorders, Gemshorns)
- windcap reed instruments (Krummhorns, Cornamuse, Kortholt, Renaissance rackett, Rauschpfeife)
- open reed instruments (Shawms)
- stringed instruments (Viols, Guitar, Cittern, Psaltery)
- cabinet organ
- percussion (string drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, bells)

Compilation taken from recordings made in the Parish Church of St Mary's, Goring-by-Sea, west Sussex, Egland during 1980, 1981 and 1983.
TT: 74'30''