I’m very interested in instrumentally performed Renaissance music, and I very much enjoy listening to it. But it’s not that easy to find recordings of that musical era without singers. (This is not really true, … Read more
On the 11.06.2018 we won the first prize at the International Early Music Competition Gijón with my recorder consort Vox Tremula. Though it is not very obviuos to compete in music, we decided to participate, … Read more
Photo credits: Filipe Faria/Arte das Musas 2017 Milena Cord-to-Krax | recorder Alexander Nicholls | baroque cello César Queruz | theorbo Last November 25th we premiered our new program on 17th c. Italian music at Fora … Read more
I‘d like to introduce a subcategory to Historically Informed Perfomance Practice (HIP): Historically Informed Creativity (HIC). The creative aspects for musicians from the early music epochs (Middle ages, Renaissance, Baroque) included improvising, diminuting, ornamenting, arranging … Read more
Quite a difficult decision when you can only choose 5 CD’s! Here they go, in alphabetical order: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet: A Concorde of Sweete Sound (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1993) Karl-Ernst Schröder & Crawford Young: Amours Amours … Read more
I’ve always loved this first movement of Telemann’s 10th Fantasia for solo flute. I play it very unrytmically because I feel I can tell its story much better this way. I’m a professional freelance recorder … Read more
Milena Cord-to-Krax | Sofia Chekalina | César Queruz
Last 21-12-15 I played a concert in Berlin with Sofia Chekalina (baroque cello) and César Queruz (tiorba) at KiezKulturWerkstadt. It was the first time for me to travel to Berlin and I had spoken with César via eMail, but we only got to know each other 3 days before the concert. His teacher Björn Collel kindly put us into contact after I asked him whether he knew anybody who would like to play with me at my friend’s, Javi Vela’s, small and very beautiful stage in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In the end we performed as a trio, as Sofia joined us. Everything worked out fine and we had a good time. I hope we’ll repeat. 🙂
Milena Cord-to-Krax, recorder | Ventura Rico, viola da gamba | Alejandro Casal, harpsichord
☞ Voiceflute by Ernst Meyer
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Milena Cord-to-Krax & Vicente Parrilla, recorders
☞ Renaissance tenor recorders by Bob Marvin
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Milena Cord-to-Krax, recorder | Alejandro Casal, harpsichord
☞ Alto ‘Ganassi’ in g by Monika Musch & Renaissance basset in F by Bob Marvin
Johannes Ciconia (ca. 1370-1412) — Aler m’en veus
Milena Cord-to-Krax, recorder | Johanna Rose, viella
Earlier this month, I was lucky to get to perform with excellent viol player Johanna Rose. This piece forms part of a medieval music duo program:
Medieval Italy around 1400: names such as Ciconia or Landini, famous and celebrated composers in their time, often seem to be quite unknown to lovers of early music nowadays. Through ballatas, madrigals and virtuously ornamented pieces from the Faenza Codex we invite you to have a little look into a surprising repertory of particular beauty!