I've not been doing much on this blog recently. For the last six months, in fact. Shameful. Although I have been more active on my other blog, http://eatslutes.blogspot.com/, which is more specifically lute-related.
Anyway, sort of covering both areas, I've just played a couple of concerts in the magnificent Château de Pau. It's in a fabulous location, with a long south-facing facade giving a panoramic view of the nearby Pyrenees. The Château itself is strongly associated with king Henri IV, who was born there in 1553, and our concert presented pieces by his musicians. Which means that our music might actually have been played in the same space 400 years ago...
Antiphona is a Toulouse-based vocal group, largely made up of professors and former postgraduate students of the early music department at the Toulouse Conservatoire. They're a good group, with innovative programming, and I hope to be doing more with them in 2010.
