🎶 Early Music Academy in the French Alps
📅 July 20–26, 2026

This year we celebrate the 300th anniversary of François Couperin’s Nations (1726), a masterpiece of the goûts réunis, blending French and Italian styles.

A week of chamber music, style, and ensemble work for flutists, violinists, violists, and harpsichord players.

📩 info: [email protected] / +33 7 71 82 13 39

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@cassana The book's fascinating - & thanks for highlighting a website of many treasures on #EarlyMusic from that wonderful scholar, the late #JeremyMontagu.
(Editing to add hashtags because I can already see much to investigate!)
Giuseppe Tartini - Sonatas

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Quatrieme Quatuor in b minor, TWV 43:h2

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How to make a cheap recorder sound like a million bucks! | Team Recorder

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Mrs Philarmonica Sonata no. 3 | Tafelmusik

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Theotokos — Music in the Time of Charlemagne

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Bach - Orchestral Suite no. 4 in D major BWV 1069 - Mortensen | Netherlands Bach Society

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""In the Making" ... Second in 10 part series on arts & crafts in Britain today visits Stephen GOTTLIEB' s Clerkenwell workshop where he makes lutes."...

https://vimeo.com/96809354

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In the Making

Second in 10 part series on arts & crafts in Britain today visits Stephen GOTTLIEB' s Clerkenwell workshop where he makes lutes. GOTTLIEB explains the various processes involved in the manufacture of the lute as he carries them out. Shaping ribs of lute over heated bending iron (2.00-2.30); gluing together & removing from mould (2.45-5.01); veneering mahogany neck & gluing fingerboard (6.00); attaching fingerboard & nailing neck to body (7.50-10.05); carving rose design on sound board & fixing to base (10.26-12.30); shaping & fixing pegs (12.30-14.30) & attaching gut strings & frets (14.30-17.10); tuning instrument (17.10-18.20) & Christopher WILSON playing finished lute (18.20-19.44).

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