St. George's Canzona was an English period-instrument ensemble that made about a dozen albums roughly between 1971 and 1985; like David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London, the group was among the late arrivals in the second generation of early music revivalists. Recorder player John Sothcott, who was a founding member of Musica Reservata under Michael Morrow in 1960, was the leader of St. George's Canzona. Despite its healthy recording activity, the group doesn't seem to have had much of a public profile, yet the ...
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St. George's Canzona was an English period-instrument ensemble that made about a dozen albums roughly between 1971 and 1985; like David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London, the group was among the late arrivals in the second generation of early music revivalists. Recorder player John Sothcott, who was a founding member of Musica Reservata under Michael Morrow in 1960, was the leader of St. George's Canzona. Despite its healthy recording activity, the group doesn't seem to have had much of a public profile, yet the recordings it left have been influential, particularly on groups such as Dufay Collective, who take a looser, more improvisatory approach to medieval dance music. This volume in Sanctuary Classics' Resonance series, Medieval Songs and Dances, collects 26 of the group's most appealing mid-'70s recordings in a generous, modestly priced single-disc package.Recorded initially for three different Enigma LPs between 1976 and 1978, these tracks were compiled into this sequence for the first time...
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