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The Muses Restor'd
Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition.
The Muses Restor'd
Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition.
About
Compared to the repertories of Italy and Germany, the glories of English instrumental music of the 17th and early 18th Centuries are largely unknown. Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque shed light on this underappreciated era on The Muses Restor'd, a journey of captivating violin-led chamber music from Jacobean to Early Georgian England, ranging from the gentle intimacy of consort idioms to the full-blown instrumental virtuosity of the evolving baroque period. This beautifully refined and intimately chiselled chamber music celebrates a rich tradition where the violin joins a plethora of keyboards, lutes, viol and continuo cello reinstating these sonatas, fantasies, suites, grounds and popular tunes to the mainstream of English cultural life of the time. Together with four musicians of Brecon Baroque, Rachel Podger performs works by Handel, Lawes, Blow, Locke, Purcell, Schop, Jenkins, Baltzar and Jones.
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Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque: The Muses Restor’d
An exciting exploration of a moment of transition in British music - the glory days of the consort tradition, the emerging Baroque, and beautiful folksong adaptations.
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJune 2024Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week24th May 2024
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BBC Music MagazineJuly 2024Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
July 2024
The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition.
June 2024
This exploration of post-1660 English music and its influences from Rachel Podger plays out as a veritable cornucopia of musical shapes and languages.
24th May 2024
While the violin-first works are of course flawlessly performed and often thrilling, the most fascinating music on the album remains the intimate ‘chamber polyphony’ of the three great consort composers, and the beautiful folksong adaptations.
19th May 2024
Podger’s playing lacks nothing in expressivity. The Jenkins and Locke prove wonderfully bouncy, and the album’s selection of adapted folk tunes couldn’t be more charming if they tried. Above all, Podger and her Brecon colleagues radiate infectious delight in the music they perform.
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