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"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens." - Maria von Trapp

Blondel

Blondel performs ceremonial fanfares and intimate chansons, dances and theatre music on shawms, bagpipes, recorders, curtals and a variety of percussion – all reconstructions of historical instruments.
Blondel’s past performances include concerts in the Cheltenham Festival (broadcast live by the BBC), Cambridge Early Music, King’s Lynn Festival, Beaminster Festival, Leeds International Medieval Congress, the Wimbledon International Music Festival, Totnes Early Music Society, Barnes Music Festival and the Worcester Early Music Festival.
Members of Blondel heard on this recording have performed with Academy of Ancient Music, London Contemporary Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, I Fagiolini, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Joglaresa and Freiburger Barockorchester.