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Review of Bedlam, a lute and soprano duo

Featuring a curious 17th-century drawing of a peg-legged, cross-eyed jester playing a cittern, the uncommonly-named duo, Bedlam, presents its first CD. The name is a reference to psychiatric hospitals, or insane asylums, of Renaissance England, although soprano Kayleen… Review

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Review of Jean-Marie Poirier’s Tablatures

Poirier made an auspicious introduction to the world of early music with his appearance as Monsieur de Bures in the seminal French film, Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World, 1991). Starring Gerard Depardieu….