#NowPlaying A little late to the party with Cinquecento, as they have been recording for @hyperionrecords.bsky.social for some 20 years. On the strength of this, their third, my first, there will be many more! I am reminded, somewhat, of The Hilliard Ensemble.

#NowPlaying One last CD before bed. Suggested by an earlier exchange here

@falsewalls.bsky.social #KennyWheeler Just arrived. If something was going to shift my current listening from Franco-Flemish polyphony, this is it!

#NowPlaying Apartment House should do more Renaissance arrangements IMHO.

#NowPlaying @pentatonemusic.bsky.social Purchased at Cappella Amsterdam's phenomenonal Stravinsky gig last night.

RT if you don't actually know what a ChatGPT tab is 🤔

Woke this morning to the sad news about Ralph Towner. This isn't the best album by either guitarist, but only the second ECM album I bought, some 43 years ago. Even now, the cover gives me goosebumps.

Share what you consider to be a goddess tier album.

Currently trying to convince MrsMarches we should head to Portugal in July for Festival Polifonia Portuguesa 🤞

#NowPlaying #RenaissancePolyphony Currently listening to Magalhāes' Masses, the fourth volume of this wonderful series of recordings on @hyperionrecords.bsky.social The fifth disc, Garro, already on pre-order.

#NowPlaying More #RenaissancePolyphony

#NowPlaying Wow, those trebles!

#NowPlaying More Ludford, more Cardinall's Musicke.

#NowPlaying Still with the Arundel Choirbook. Hard to beat The Cardinall's Music in this repertoire. The Byrd, Fayrfax and Ludford Editions are all essential (imho!)

#NowPlaying Staying with the Arundel Choirbook (or thereabouts)

#NowPlaying After a few days of Charpentier and Couperin (F) back to the English Renaissance with the first new CD of the year.

Happy New Year from Hereford!

#NowPlaying #HighlightsOf2025 The ways of successfully arranging the Goldberg Variations seems to be infinite.

5 hours and 21 minutes over two nights that got Christmas off to a magical start.

#NowPlaying #HighlightsOf2025 Amina Claudine Myers on Red Hood. A future classic.

#NowPlaying #HighlightsOf2025 One of a number of great releases on Jakob Bro's Loveland Music label (which has cost me many £££s this year!)

#NowPlaying #HighlightsOf2025 Peacock Dreams by Abdulla Miniawy. Egyptian artist, songwriter and singer, backed by two trombones and electronics. One of my live highlights of the year @supersonicfest.bsky.social

#NowPlaying #HighlightsOf2025 Along with Cosmic Ear's Traces, this Christer Bothén album is gorgeous. Recommended for bass clarinet lovers.

#NowPlating #ECM #Tag Staying with, and ending with, Stefano Battaglia's album devoted to Alec Wilder. A 27 (?) ECM album thread that started with Kenny's The Widow in the Window. Hopefully including a good handful of less obvious titles.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Michele Rabbia, and almost there...

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Eivind Aarset. Gianluca Petrella on trombone (and sounds) reminding me a little of one of my discoveries of 2025 (up later)

Saw this and thought of you @stebenson.bsky.social

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Andy Sheppard (quiet of late 🤔)

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Carla Bley. This has me thinking that *surely* Carla is the ECM artist whose compositions have been most covered by other musicians on the label?

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Charlie.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Keith (started in the early hours of the morning)

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Gary Peacock. I bought the Deer Head Inn CD on our honeymoon in Venice.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Marilyn Crispell.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Staying with Joe Lovano.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Sticking with Marcin Wasilewski.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Sticking with Joakim Milder, a very underrated saxophonist imho. It's taken me a few years to build up a decent collection, spread across numerous labels.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Sticking with Tomasz Stanko (whose occasional choice in knitwear was shared with Kenny Wheeler)

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Sticking with Jakob Bro.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Sticking with Paul Motian.

A great choice of repertoire on this album. Struggling to recall which ECM artist did an album of Gordon Jenkins' compositions 🤔

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Sticking with Bobo Stenson.

#NowPlaying #ECM #Tag Sticking with Charles Lloyd. The first of a magnificent 16 album run for the label.

#NowPlaying #ECM Sticking with Eric Harland.

#NowPlaying #ECM Staying with Larry Grenadier.

#NowPlaying #ECM Still sticking with Mark Turner. Easily one of my favourite tenor players.

#NowPlaying #ECM Sticking with Mark Turner.

#NowPlaying #ECM Sticking with Ben Street.

#NowPlaying #ECM Sticking with Bill Frisell.

#NowPlaying #ECM Sticking with Joey Baron.

#NowPlaying #ECM Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron. Another great ECM rhythm section.