Sunday, April 20, 2008

Mount Hekla on Hurdy Gurdy

Monday, March 17, 2008

A Viola da Gamba Piece by Abel

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Johann Sebastian Bach-Prelude for Lute in D Minor

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Harpolyre (music by Fernando Sor, played by John Doan)

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Two Viola da Gamba Videos


Chanty by Thomas Mace


Sonata by Carl Friedrich Abel

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Medieval Harp Troubadour



See also Harp Spectrum.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Baryton

Saturday, December 15, 2007

La Quinte Estampie Royal (Medieval Music)

Thursday, September 20, 2007

John Dowland-Melancholy Galliard-Renaissance Lute

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Medieval Music-The Sandsacks in Moritzburg

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Minstrels: The Lute and the Fury

Minstrels: The Lute & The Fury

Friday, June 08, 2007

The Charango Plays Early Music


The charango is a delightful South American instrument. I hope to discuss it in greater detail in future posts as I'm very fond of it and play it occasionally. For now, I wanted to share a video of a man playing early music on the charango. (You may also enjoy visiting his blog, Early Music Charango)


Echo la Primavera (Played on charango)


Well, this video prompted me to do some more research and I found out about the group La Volta. Here are three of their videos. It might seem that the South American charango would be a little out of place in a Swiss group playing early European music, but I think it works very well.


Canarios-Gasper Sanz


Ballo & Saltarello-Simone Molinaro


La Follia - Anonymous, Italy (18th Century)