Our life is full of questions
We're working on a supplement to our recently posted video, a further exploration of the poem ‘What is our life?’ attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh - or Raleigh, Rawleigh, Rawlie,…
At last, What Is Our Life?
We have updated and re-released our video of What Is Our Life? by Orlando Gibbons! More below the video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCFaD7xjbOs&t=7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCFaD7xjbOs The text of this early 17th century piece is…
Yet another beginning
We crashed. For months, we had been engrossed in the Ars Moriendi video project mentioned in our last two blog posts. It was very exciting, intricate, and overwhelming. Once all…
Lent, Holy Week, and continued reflections
As we write this, it's a solemn season in the Christian liturgical calendar. Lent has moved into Holy Week, which is ending with the remembrance of Christ's crucifixion. It is…
A project for the dark seasons
Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. In keeping with that, we're working on a series of videos on 'Ars moriendi' or 'the art of dying', which is the…
…And another new beginning
"For this was on seynt Valentynes day,Whan every foul cometh ther to chese his make"It’s been two years since we relaunched Ensemble Tramontana with a programme called Parlement of Foules,…
New beginnings
It's been a couple of months since we (mostly Esha) relaunched Ensemble Tramontana and we're still in the process of figuring out what to do with our new website, and…