P A L I S A N D E R
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Double, Double Toil & Trouble
Palisander’s new album features repertoire spanning 900 years, inspired by the mystical and magical. The recorder quartet are passionate ambassadors of their instrument, and this recording encompasses a huge variety of recorder consort settings, using instruments from the six-inch Garklein to the six-foot Contrabass, and everything in between.
The featured repertoire balances historically informed interpretations alongside new compositions and arrangements, created specifically for the ensemble. Authentic Renaissance gems by Casulana, Rore, Rognoni, Holborne, and Sweelinck are featured alongside familiar baroque classics such as Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Tartini’s Devil’s Trill, arranged for Palisander. The ensemble partnered with BBC Radio 3/NCEM for the 2021 Young Composers Award and the winning piece in the 18-25 year old category, Kagura Suite by Delyth Field, features on this disc.
Palisander are known for their theatrical approach in performance, and partner here with actor Connor Byrne (Tracy Beaker, London’s Burning) for the premiere recording of Miriam Monaghan’s Kepler’s Planets: Music and poetry inspired by Renaissance Astronomer and Mathematician Johannes Kepler’s study of the Music of the Spheres.
Supported by Angel Early Music and the Golsoncott Foundation
You can find out more about the album in this film
Beware the Spider!
17th Century victims of venomous spider bites were offered no medicinal cure or relief. Instead, the local musicians would work together to find a curative melody…
Palisander's debut album is broadly inspired by the idea of tarantism and the selected pieces represent a cross section of the early music in the ensemble's repertoire. The disc includes music by Anthony Holborne, Antonio Vivaldi and William Byrd, as well as arrangements of authentic tarantellas written by the group. Palisander is joined by Toby Carr (Baroque Guitar and Theorbo) and Ruairi Glasheen (Percussion), for some pieces.
You can find out more about the album in this film made by Chromacode Studios.
Reviews
Beware the Spider! was launched in February 2017 at St John's Smith Square, London, where Palisander are Young Artists 2016-2017. The disc received a 4 star review from BBC Music Magazine (June 2017) and from Early Music Review (May 2017). It also featured in BBC Music Magazine's First Listen podcast (July 2017), where it was voted First place: 'the playing was very crisp... the ensemble was fantastic'.
In a review for Planet Huggil, Robert Huggil said the CD was ‘a charming disc [which] not only shows off the ensemble's skills admirably, but provides a programme which intrigues’.
You can read a review of the CD and the launch concert by Andrew Benson-Wilson, here and by Revoice! Magazine, here