Following on their impressive debut album [Ex]tradition, the Curious Bards—an early-music ensemble founded by violinist Alix Boivert in 2015—continue to explore material from the Scottish and Irish folk traditions preserved in 18th-century publications. This new collection of airs and dances is a chance to discover more of this fascinating repertoire, in which the distinctions between serious music and popular inspiration need no longer apply.
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Reviews
***** Coup de cœur
Philippe Ramin – Classica magazine (France) – November 2023
Performance **** Recording ****
“… it’s all excellently played, generating the convivial intimacy of performance in a lost age…”
Michael Church – BBC Music magazine – November 2023
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