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The Independant - Album of the Week
Classic FM Magazine

   Calliope AV2102 www.inklingrecords.com

Emma Curtis & The Frolick invite you back to London, 1739, for an evening of music-making at the height of Handel's fame.   Performing music from the era's most popular songbook, with period instruments and style. More than fifty songs from the opera, theatre, coffee-house, travern, folk and soapbox, including A Favourite Aire by Mr. Handel in Ariadne, England's Lamentation on the Loss of Farinelli and Maurice Greene's The Fly.

The Frolick seeks to breathe life and fun into the neglected chamber, opera and theatre music of the late 17th and 18th Centuries. Their first recording together, Calliope shows a broad and entertaining picture of 18th century London, reflecting the society for which it was collected, allowing us to see and feel the world and the humour in which its songs were born. Each song is its own microcosm of society and style.

Emma Curtis
Andrew Maginley

Markus Moellenbeck
Muriel Bardon
Giovanna Pessi
Natia Gvilava
Annie Laflamme
Martin Lynch

- director, contralto
- director, d-minor baroque lute,
  baroque guitar, theorbo
- baroque cello
- baroque violin (I)
- baroque triple harp
- baroque violin (II)
- transverse flute (german flute)
- drum

As in the London of the 1700s our players come from all over Europe
(not to mention North America) We rehearse in a mix of languages
with Music as the common tongue.

CALLIOPE, Beautiful Voice - Volume the First
Emma Curtis, contralto & The Frolick
AV2102 - available from www.inklingrecords.com
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