Hesperion XX

[Todd Michel McComb]

In article <MKOYVPQE37561.8490162037@Gilgamesh-frog.org>,
Medieval music fan <Anonymous...@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.

Todd McComb
mcc...@medieval.org

[David Martin]

I believe that they are due to be in Boston in April next year

http://www.bemf.org/concerts/hesperion.html

David Martin
dma...@favoriti-consort.co.uk

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[PhilF]

"David Martin" <david....@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> I believe that they are due to be in Boston in April next year
>
> http://www.bemf.org/concerts/hesperion.html
>
> David Martin
> dma...@favoriti-consort.co.uk
>

Also Montreal, does anyone have a copy of their itinerary?

Thx
Phil

[Douglas Clark]

I went to their weekend at the Bath Festival this year and loved it.
--
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: d.g.d...@bath.ac.uk
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html

[Douglas Clark]

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.

[Andrew Black]

mcc...@medieval.org (Todd Michel McComb) wrote in news:apuku3$vmd$1
@machaut.medieval.org:

> I believe Hesperion XX (now Hesperion
> XXI, actually) is the instrumentalists.

Why did they change the name?

Andrew

[Todd Michel McComb]

In article <Xns92C3BD6977032...@130.133.1.4>,
Andrew Black <a2...@black1.org.uk> asks of my earlier remark:

>>I believe Hesperion XX (now Hesperion XXI, actually) is the
>>instrumentalists.
>Why did they change the name?

I believe it is on account of the change in century....

Todd McComb
mcc...@medieval.org

[Coperges - A. Hernández]

To go with the century.
Regards

A. Hernández

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