AAM – 40th Birthday

[doversoul1]

Lucie Skeaping celebrates the 40th anniversary of the UK's pioneering period orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, in the company of Music Director Richard Egarr. Together they look back over the orchestra's history and listen to some of its most important recordings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03kp2bx

Another 40th birthday (the Hilliard Ensemble on Music Matters). We could almost do (modern?) Early Music – 40th Birthday.

[ed.] …and the Hilliard is retiring next year.

[Mattbod]

I enjoyed this programme and it was interesting to hear the Christ Church Oxford Messiah. The boys had a very refined and delicate English sound which went perfectly with the spare period accompaniment. It is a CD that I really need to buy.