In article <MKOYVPQE37561.8490162...@Gilgamesh-frog.org>, Medieval music fan <Anonymous-Remai...@See.Comment.Header> wrote:
>Does anyone know whether Hesperion XX are still an active ensemble and >is Figueras a part of them?
Yes, they are active. They just released an album devoted to Will Lawes. Montserrat Figueras continues to be active and associated with them, although technically, I believe Hesperion XX (now Hesperion XXI, actually) is the instrumentalists.
>Also, are they still touring and are they planning on visiting the >US?
They are still touring. I am sure they will come to the US at some point, but I don't know when.
> In article <MKOYVPQE37561.8490162...@Gilgamesh-frog.org>, > Medieval music fan <Anonymous-Remai...@See.Comment.Header> wrote: > >Does anyone know whether Hesperion XX are still an active ensemble and > >is Figueras a part of them?
> Yes, they are active. They just released an album devoted to Will > Lawes. Montserrat Figueras continues to be active and associated > with them, although technically, I believe Hesperion XX (now Hesperion > XXI, actually) is the instrumentalists.
> >Also, are they still touring and are they planning on visiting the > >US?
> They are still touring. I am sure they will come to the US at some > point, but I don't know when.
I went to their weekend at the Bath Festival this year and loved it. -- Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: d.g.d.cl...@bath.ac.uk Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
In the referenced article, exxd...@bath.ac.uk (Douglas Clark) writes:
>I went to their weekend at the Bath Festival this year and loved it. >-- >Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: d.g.d.cl...@bath.ac.uk >Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
Early Music
The cat tries to pinch my chair As I reach for the scribblepad. Cleansed by Nelly Sachs' poetry As she weeps for her Jewish nation I think of Siegfried's grave in Mells churchyard Which I could not spot yesterday. Not far from Monsignor Ronald Knox and the Asquiths I was told later. Jordi Savall was playing his gamba Before the nave where the Countess of Oxford worshipped. The foxhunting man was an inspiration Of my youth and Sassoon capped it with the 'War Poems'. Pity he got married. Ruined Mad Jack's image and his life. The Catalan music of the Renaissance When Arab and Troubador met. From Gascony to Toledo and its wonderful translators. And the Sephardic influence. Adelard of Bath was at Toledo. From Barcelona to Edinburgh We are one culture in Europe. Jordi's Hesperion XXI demonstrates that. I had two pints of Butcombes In the Talbot in Mells yesterday And talked of the previous Saturday night in Bath Abbey. Hesperion were like Paddy Moloney's Chieftains. Virtuosi every one. It is repeated on the radio next Monday night. Before the nationstates A Europe of the Regions: Catalonia. I must buy some CDs. Siegfried sleeps in Mells. This postmodern newsletter is for him. His grandchildren killed in the carcrash. I know what it is like To have a brilliant beginning to your life Then to find it has all gone dreadfully wrong. Nelly Sachs never lived to see presentday Israel. Siegfried spent fifty Catholic years. The rain stops and the cat heads for the catflap. The poem is over.
