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Milena Cord-to-Krax

Month: September 2016

  • Music scores to The Begger Boy — 9 variations by M. Cord-to-Krax

    I found the pretty melody of The Begger Boy in John Playford’s The Dancing Master (1651). It is a very short melody and dancers and musicians would have gone crazy if they played it the same way round and round. Here must have come into play variations/improvisations — for sure. So I decided to convert…

  • Why did I publish my recording online with a CC license? Copyright vs Copyleft!

    When a recording gets published by a a record label, they reserve all the rights on that recording — to them. In most of the cases you got to pay for the recording (a lot), you studied, practiced and rehearsed the music, it was your idea, your project. Then you probably have to buy the…

  • Three videos of my recorder consort Vox Tremula

    Have a look and a listen to three videos of my recorder consort Vox Tremula: Vincenzo Ruffo — La Danza Vox Tremula: Milena Cord-to-Krax, Elena Escartín & Gonzalo Llao, recorders Zoé Desquesnes, contemporary dance [divider] J. Playford & M. Cord-to-Krax — The Begger Boy Vox Tremula: Milena Cord-to-Krax, Elena Escartín & Gonzalo Llao, recorders David…

  • Recording: Bach’s Suite BWV 995 arranged for a melody instrument and b.c. by M. Cord-to-Krax

    It really happened, I made my first professional recording go public: J.S. Bach — BWV 995 arranged for a melody instrument and b.c. by M. Cord-to-Krax Musick’s Recreation. Milena Cord-to-Krax Milena Cord-to-Krax | alto recorder after Stanesby sr. (by Morgan/Ronimus) Ventura Rico | viola da gamba Alejandro Casal | harpsichord Bárbara Sela | artistic direction…

  • Todd Boyd on playing someone else’s music

    As in the early music scene we like to point out the similarities between early music and jazz in terms of conception of the music (improvisations, variations, creativity, openness of the repertory…) would/should this statement have to refer to us as well? ‘If a Jazz musician plays someone else’s tune, he has a responsibility to…

  • My 5 favourite Early Music CD’s (2016)

    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 Amours (Harmonia Mundi, 2002) More Hispano — Vicente Parrilla: Glosas (Carpe Diem, 2011) Musica Antiqua Köln — Reinhard Goebel: French…