a-hat-full-of-sky:

So what will you do if you meet David Tennant?

What about Matt Smith?

And Arthur Darvill?

Should I ask about Karen Gillan …

.. or Alex Kingston .. ?

oldbookillustrations:

She went to the fruiterer’s
To buy him some fruit
But when she came back
He was playing the flute.

From Mother Goose’s nursery rhymes, published by George Routledge and Sons, London, New York, 1877.

(Source: archive.org)

La Petite Bande - Vivaldi Cello Concerto in D majorRV.403

Sigiswald Kuijken playing the cello part on Spalla.

RECERCADAS IV Y VIII SOBRE LA FOLÍA - Diego Ortiz (ca. 1510 - ca. 1570).
(“Tratado de Glosas” - Roma, 1553).

ANDREA FALCONIERO (c. 1575-1661)

“Folias (a 3) echa para mi Senora Dona Tarolilla de Carallenos”

Performed by Hesperion XXI

*Andrea Falconiero (Falconieri) was an Italian lutenist, singer and composer. 

Falconieri participated in various Italian courts of nobility, of Modena and Parma, in Genoa since 1639 and occupied the Spanish royal court of Naples, where he worked as a lutenist and Theorbenspieler was active. Between 1621 and 1628 he traveled Spain and France. He died during a plague in 1656. 

His work consists of motets, madrigals, Villanellas with guitar tablature and instrumental works.

thepowerofart:

Gerrit van Honthorst, The Matchmaker, 1625.

leadingtone:

Buxtehude - Te Deum laudamus in the Phrygian mode, BuxWV 218
Michel Chapuis, organ

The Te Deum laudamus is a large and complex setting of the traditional plainsong. In the North German tradition, Buxtehude mixes toccata with chorale fantasy in an imaginative treatment of the ancient melody. 

(photo by Inaxiotejerina) 

Biber : Sonate del Rosario XI) La Resurrezione

Accordatura violino: Sol-Re-Sol-Re

baroquenoise:

Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) - Company Making Music