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9th February 2010
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This month's photo The Longslade Consort on tour - July 2009. A Health & Safety Inspector visits the camp kitchen? The Longslade Consort The Longslade Consort is a small group of musicians dedicated to bringing the highest standards of small consort music to the widest possible audience. Members of the group have performed on local radio, in nineteen Cathedrals, stately homes and numerous Parish Churches. They have also devised many Baroque dinners with 18thC food and music. The group has performed in the Barbican foyer, at the Edinburgh and Glasgow Early Music Festival Fringes and has appeared several times at the International Music Festival at Sidmouth. They make regular appearances at the annual Leicester Castle Park Festival. They are particularly noted for their lighthearted introduction to the World of Early Music. The Longslade Consort's collection of early musical instruments includes a set of Renaissance recorders, crumhorns, cornamuse, gemshorn, rauschpfeife, rackett, shawm, sordune, spinet, harpsichord, viol da gamba, an assortment of percussion including nakers and timbrel and a vast number of Baroque recorders. Apart from the recorders, most were made by the group's Director, John Bence. The woodwind are mostly based on originals in the Brussels' Collection and the spinet is a copy of an early 18th century original in a private collection. The group's first CD - "Music from the Mists of Time" is a lighthearted look at the World of Early Music with a wide-ranging selection of instruments from the Consort's collection, coupled with some great pieces from the Baroque, featuring Handel, Scarlatti and Telemann. A second CD, "A Window to the Past," released in 2002, presents a further selection of music from the group's vast repertoire. "This multi-talented group present early music with humour, enthusiasm and excellent Musicianship." Leicester Mercury, August 2001 "The Longslade Consort is an accomplished and versatile group led by the city's leading early Music specialist John Bence" Leicester Mercury July 2000 Leicester Waits We have been appointed official Leicester Waits. In our case that means early 18thC Waits - slightly anachronistic I know but what seems to suit the Lord Mayor's needs!. |
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